| General Astronomy | Modern Astrophysics, Carroll & Ostlie |
| Astronomy Methods, Bradt |
| Astrophysics in a Nutshell, Maoz |
| The Physical Universe Universe, Shu |
| Astrophysics I (Stars) and II (ISM and Galaxies), Bowers & Deeming |
| Astrophysical Quantities, Allen |
| Celestial Mechanics | Textbook on Spherical Astronomy, Smart |
| Solar System | Solar System Dynamics, Murray & Dermott |
| Fundamentals of Celestial Mechanics, Danby |
| Planetary Sciences, de Pater & Lissauer |
| Stellar Structure | Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis, Clayton |
| Black Holes, White Dwarfs, and Neutron Stars, Shapiro & Teukolsky |
| Radiative Transfer | Radiative Processes in Astrophysics, Rybicki & Lightman |
| The Physics of Atmospheres, Houghton |
| Theory of Planetary Atmospheres, Chamberlain & Hunten |
| Extragalactic | Galactic Astronomy, Binney & Merrifield |
| Galactic Dynamics, Binney & Tremaine |
| Principles of Physical Cosmology, Peebles |
| Classical Mechanics | Classical Dynamics of Particles & Systems, Marion |
| Classical Mechanics, Goldstein, Poole, & Safko |
| Mechanics, Landau & Lifshitz |
| Optics | Optics, Hecht |
| Fundamentals of Optics, Jenkins & White |
| Principles of Optics, Born & Wolf |
| Observations | Astrophysical Techniques, Kitchen |
| Data | Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences, Bevington |
| Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing, Press et al. |
| Probability | Probability, Pitman |