Reading for your university interview

Title	Author	My Humble Opinion
The Ascent of Man	Jacob Bronowski	A history of science, an award winning TV programme in its day by an eminent scientist. Very readable
Isaac Newton	James Gleick	A biography, rather dry but a good insight into a genius. Not as long as it first appears as at least 1/3 of the book is the author’s references
The Code Book	Simon Singh	More Maths than Physics. A history of code breaking. Very readable.
Bad Astronomy	Phil Plait	The moon landing a was hoax? This book blows this idea away (and other popular myths)
A Brief History in Time	Stephen Hawking	Never was a book bought by so many to be read by so few. As one of the few I can only say it was a bit of a struggle.
The Time and Space of Uncle Albert	Russell Stannard	Uncle Albert is, of course, Einstein. Thoroughly enjoyable introduction to relativity (hard to believe I know).
Critical Mass	Philip Ball	How physics relates to the everyday world. Intellectual. (So I enjoyed it!)
A Short History of Nearly Everything.	Bill Bryson	Excellent book. Read it. Don’t mention it your interview as Bryson is not a scientist and university professors have strong views on writers of popular fiction.
The New Scientist	A magazine	Read it every week (for at least a month before your university interview)