Sheafification – The optimal path to mathematical mastery: The fast track (2022)

I am not sure if I agree with the list. I mean, one red flag is the frequent mention of Landau & Lifshitz. It is considered a "standard textbook", but I feel it stuck there by inertia. There are quite a few choices of both less boring and more insightful.

(Back when I was reading such stuff, 20 years ago, the Feynman Lectures provided orders magnitude more insight. And fun.)

The Feynman Lectures are in a very different category from Landau & Lifshitz. You shouldn’t use L&L as your first university-level physics textbook (too difficult and divorced from the real world), but you probably shouldn’t use the FLP as your second, either, provided your first was good (too easy to be worth the time spent, though it’s still useful as pleasure reading that also fills in things you might have missed).

I have to admit I like the FLP less than the typical reader—it’s immensely fun in the moment, but I’ve always found the material too disjointed to build a coherent picture (ah, and now we have the tools to understand this random fun thing that I’ve never mentioned before and never going to mention after). As far as classic introductory books, the Berkeley course covers less, but the things it does cover fit together much better.

As for L&L, it’s just very uneven in quality. General relativity is great; electromagnetism is kind of bad. (And the two are in the same book!) Theoretical mechanics is adequate but way too much of a slog despite how short it is. Elasticity is surprisingly good. QM is OK but there’s a dozen approaches to QM depending on your background and it’s a toss-up whether this one will work for you. QED is good at the things it covers but like half of those things are relegated to the status of obscure specialist topics these days, while the point of view is something you should be aware of eventually but definitely not at your first go through the subject. And so on.