Books like Physics of the Impossible

Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku reads as accessible, philosophical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Cosmos

Carl Sagan · 1980

Shares the human + wonder thread

69% genome match

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Neil deGrasse Tyson · 2017

Shares the wonder + hopeful thread

69% genome match

The Soul of an Octopus

Sy Montgomery · 2015

Shares the hopeful + human thread

69% genome match

The Anthropocene Reviewed

John Green · 2021

Shares the hopeful + human thread

69% genome match

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking · 1988

Shares the wonder thread

71% genome match

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Carlo Rovelli · 2014

Shares the wonder + hopeful thread

83% genome match

Entangled Life

Merlin Sheldrake · 2020

Shares the wonder + hopeful thread

83% genome match

From Eros to Gaia

Freeman J. Dyson · 1992

Shares the human thread

70% genome match

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson · 2003

Shares the wonder + hopeful thread

69% genome match

The Elegant Universe

Brian Greene · 1999

Shares the wonder thread

69% genome match

An Immense World

Ed Yong · 2022

Shares the wonder + hopeful thread

69% genome match

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari · 2018

Shares the human thread

83% genome match