Recommendations
I've had the chance to read a fair number of popular physics books. Here are a collection that I recommend for those interested in learning more physics on their own.
Bodanis, David
E=mc2 : A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
Bryson, Bill
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Cox, Brian and Jeff Forshaw
The Quantum Universe: (And Why Anything That Can Happen, Does)
Carroll, Sean (blog)
From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
Feynman, Richard
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
Ford, Kenneth
The Quantum World: Quantum Physics for Everyone
Greene, Brian
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality
Hawking, Stephen
A Brief History of Time
The Universe in a Nutshell
The Grand Design (with Leonard Mlodinow)
Mlodinow, Leonard
The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos
Novella, Steven, with Bob Novella, Cara Santa Maria, Jay Novella, and Evan Bernstein
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
This is not a physics book but rather an enlightening critique of pseudo-science and sloppy thinking.
Rovelli, Carlo
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
The Order of Time
Thorne, Kip
Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy
The Science of Interstellar
