Black Hole Survival Guide 

Rude Science: Everything You Want to Know About the Science No One Ever Talks About

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love. Inspired by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has crafted a biography about the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics-indeed of modern science altogether."