
An Appetite for Wonder
by Richard Dawkins
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Professor of Particle Physics and BBC Presenter

by Richard Dawkins
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— Brian Cox's Book Recommendations (updated 2025) | Good Books
by Brian Cox
“**Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe** by Brian Cox (9/10)”
— Book Recommendations on Modern Cosmology : r/astrophysics

by Edward Osborne Wilson
“E. O. Wilson’s book ‘Consilience’ made a big impact on me when I first read it in the late ‘90s.”
— 11 books Brian Cox recommended - Read This Twice

by Carl Sagan
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— Brian Cox's Book Recommendations (updated 2025) | Good Books

by P.D. Ouspensky
“It’s a very good introduction for anybody who is interested in esotericism and the esoteric nature of life.”
— Brian Cox recommends his six favourite books

by Nick Lane
“I think it’s correct to say that many biologists (not all) believe the step from prokaryote to eukaryote was highly unlikely. See for example Nick Lane’s Life Ascending - a great book for many reasons.”
— Brian Cox's Book Recommendations (Updated for 2025)

by Viktor Frankl
“Frankl was interested in why certain people survived the Holocaust emotionally and others didn’t.”
— Brian Cox recommends his six favourite books

by G.I. Gurdjieff
“Cox praised it as 'kind of a classic road book—and wonderful'.”
— Brian Cox recommends his six favourite books

by Richard Holmes
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by Richard Dawkins
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by James D. Watson
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— Brian Cox's Book Recommendations (updated 2025) | Good Books

by Steven Weinberg
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by Walter Isaacson
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— Brian Cox's Book Recommendations (updated 2025) | Good Books
by Thomas Hardy
“One of the great novels about fate. Michael Henchard is a mayor with a past. And because he hasn't dealt with his past, it slowly catches up with him, to his own peril.”
— Brian Cox recommends 6 classic reads about life and love - The Week

by Sidney Poitier
“One of the best autobiographies I have ever read.”
— Brian Cox recommends 6 classic reads about life and love - The Week

by Richard P. Feynman
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by Adam Becker
“It’s fascinating on the history of QM, Bell’s theorem, Many Worlds ....”
— Brian Cox's Book Recommendations (Updated for 2025)

by Adam Spencer
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— Brian Cox's Book Recommendations (updated 2025) | Good Books

by Stephen Hawking

by James Hamilton-Paterson

by James B. Hartle

by Christian Jarrett

by Brian Cox

by Leonard Shlain

by Garik Israelian

by Betina Piqueras-Fiszman & Charles Spence

by Robert P. Crease & Alfred S. Goldhaber

by Richard Dawkins

by Matt Parker

by Mara Grunbaum