Not surprisingly, a very fine list from the AIP's Physicsworld website:
- The Physics of Rugby by Trevor Davis
- First Principles: The Crazy Business of Doing Serious Science by Howard Burton
- Oliver Heaviside: Maverick Mastermind of Electricity by Basil Mahon
- Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb by Jim Baggott
- Lives in Science by Joseph C Hermanowitz
- 13 Things That Don't Make Sense by Michael Brooks
- Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung by Arthur I Miller
- Perfect Rigor by Masha Gessen
- Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World by Eugenie Samuel Reich
- The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo
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