Is there a book that will explain to me the science of Quantum Mechanics in a layman manner?

I think it'll be hard to piece together QM alone without sufficient context to the physics that goes before and after it. So I would suggest physics books in general along with the ones that talk about QM head on. I had put together a larger reading list for a friend a while back so here's some parts of it, • Mr Tompkins in Paperback by George Gamow A fast read. Some stories about Mr Tompkins who dozes off during a science lecture and enters alternate worlds which have different values of fundamental constants. Its brilliant storytelling and isn’t instructional, George Gamow doesn’t get into the details or the why. That’s for other books • Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman One of the best introductions to the fundamentals of physics, covers relativity, classical mechanics and QM. Written by a Nobel laureate yet manages to light on jargon • The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene The PBS Series of the same name is also a brilliant replacement for this book. It is intended to be a book about String Theory but it does a great job in setting up the context and explain QM too