“Read everything” is not really a game plan for anything. Most of the suggested topic lists to anemic to be useful. And I have looked at the suggested books bef

“Read everything” is not really a game plan for anything. Most of the suggested topic lists to anemic to be useful. And I have looked at the suggested books before and find them uninspiring. For example, there are ton of special relativity and general relativity books missing from the relevant lists that I’d recommend. (I know because I’ve collected them in hopes of finally learning the material well. I like differential geometry, and it’s a life goal to fully understand general relativity.)