Professor of Particle Physics and BBC Presenter
by Richard Dawkins
“Brian Cox's Book Recommendations (updated 2025) | Good Books”
— 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
“Brian Cox's Book Recommendations (updated 2025) | Good Books”
— 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
“Brian Cox's Book Recommendations (updated 2025) | Good Books”
— Brian Cox's Book Recommendations (updated 2025) | Good Books
by Richard Dawkins
“Brian Cox's Book Recommendations (updated 2025) | Good Books”
— Brian Cox's Book Recommendations (updated 2025) | Good Books
by James D. Watson
“Brian Cox's Book Recommendations (updated 2025) | Good Books”
— Brian Cox's Book Recommendations (updated 2025) | Good Books
by Steven Weinberg
“Brian Cox's Book Recommendations (updated 2025) | Good Books”
— Brian Cox's Book Recommendations (updated 2025) | Good Books
by Walter Isaacson
“Brian Cox's Book Recommendations (updated 2025) | Good Books”
— 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
“Brian Cox's Book Recommendations (updated 2025) | Good Books”
— Brian Cox's Book Recommendations (updated 2025) | Good Books
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
“Brian Cox's Book Recommendations (updated 2025) | Good Books”
— 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