Favorite physics books

Out of the blue, I asked my friends for their favorite physics books.

Here are the results of the poll:

• V. I. Arnold, Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics
  
• Ralph Baierlein, Thermal Physics
  
• Grigory I. Barenblatt, Scaling
  
• John Cardy, Scaling and Renormalization in Statistical Physics
  
• Viktor Dotsenko, An Introduction to the Theory of Spin Glasses and Neural Networks
  
• Richard P. Feynman, Statistical Mechanics
  
• Howard Georgi, Lie Algebras in Particle Physics
  
• Nigel Goldenfeld, Lectures on Phase Transitions and the Renormalization Group (3)
  
• David J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics (2)
  
• David J. Griffiths, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
  
• E. M. Lifshitz and L. D. Landau, Statistical Physics
  
• E. M. Lifshitz and L. D. Landau, Theory of Elasticity
  
• Richard D. Mattuck, A Guide to Feynman Diagrams in the Many-Body Problem
  
• Gordon Raisbeck, Information Theory
  
• Steven Weinberg, Gravitation and Cosmology
  
• Carlo Vanderzande, Lattice Models of Polymers
  
• Anthony Zee, Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell (3)
  

As you can probably tell, the majority of my friends are condensed matter physicists.

And here are my favorites:

• Neil W. Ashcroft and N. David Mermin, Solid State Physics
  
• Herbert B. Callen, Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics
  
• David J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics
  
• Edward M. Purcell, Electricity and Magnetism