10 Books in 'Popular Physics' category that you can read as a beginner ✍️
1. The Character of Physical Law by Richard P. Feynman
2. The Quantum World: Quantum Physics for Everyone by Kenneth W. Ford
3. The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose
4. In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality by John Gribbin
5. Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein by Abraham Pais
6. The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking
7. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman
8. Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions by Lisa Randall
9. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
10. Three Roads to Quantum Gravity by Lee Smolin
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