modern physics (Tipler), quantum mechanics (Griffiths), and a good more advanced astro book, like Carroll & Ostlie.......
One more source you may want to take some time looking into:
http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~hooft101…
It has a more elaborate list.
Don't get scared about the size/length. Find yourself a couple of good forums and ask questions.
Well, if you wanted to do that in college, first you'd learn calculus, then you'd take calculus-based physics (Serway's textbook is widely used, as are Knight and Halliday-Resnick - I'm using author names here), introductory astronomy (any intro textbook is fine, they're all pretty similar), then classical mechanics (couple of decent intro books there), E&M (Griffiths is most commonly used), modern physics (Tipler), quantum mechanics (Griffiths), and a good more advanced astro book, like Carroll & Ostlie.
