The following books are centered around physics and astronomy, written for the lay person by some of the most brilliant scientific authors out there. If you want more than what the class gets into, this is the place to start
- "A Brief History of Time" - Stephen Hawking
- "Cosmos" - Carl Sagan
- "Astrophysics for People in a Hurry" - Neil deGrasse Tyson
- "Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life" - Helen Czerski
- "Bad Astronomy" - Phil Plait
- "The Planet Factory" - Elizabeth Tasker
- "NightWatch" - Terence Dickinson
- "The Character of Physical Law" - Richard Feynman
- "Relativity: The Special and the General Theory" - Albert Einstein
- "Seven Brief Lessons on Physics" - Carlo Rovelli
- "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" - Thomas Kuhn
- "A Big Bang in a Little Room: The Quest to Create a New Universe" - Zeeya Merali
- "Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas that Reveal the Cosmos" - Priyamvada Natarajan
- "A Short History of Nearly Everything" - Bill Bryson