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- 20 Books That Will Make You SmarterReading list
Ready to take an exhilarating trip through space and time, with none other than the late cosmological virtuoso, Stephen Hawking, as your guide? Buckle up, because ‘A Brief History of Time’ is an astronomical feat of science writing that’s ready to rocket your understanding of the universe into the stratosphere.
- David SinclairInterview
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson.
- The Most Important Books On AstronomyReading list
I read this as a teenager. It contains everything I didn’t know I wanted to know about our universe and begins by questioning whether or not you could explain things you think you know. Complex physics is broken down through understandable analogies, and then the inadequacies of those analogies are exposed. For…
- Brian ChristianInterview
The first one that comes to mind from my grade-school years is A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, just a wonderfully imaginative and mind-expanding book. Relatedly on the nonfiction side I also remember adoring A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking: I had an illustrated edition with all of these wonderful…
- Joe NavarroInterview
These already made my list, but they should be read widely by the public: A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, Influence by Robert Cialdini, Lucy, the Beginnings of Humankind by Donald Johanson, The Age of Reason Begins by Will and Ariel Durant, The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck, Heart of a Dog by Mikhail…
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