This is my reading list on the subject so far. I do not necessarily recommed all of them to all or any readers. Einstein's books containing General Relativity are not meant for new readers; nor are those on tensors and vectors or differential equations. This list is not meant to be a list of endorsements or recommendations or to represent a methodolgy for proceeding with familiarization with this vast subject matter. By no means should anyone take this list to be complete - it simply happens to contain many good selections for the general reader. I've presented them in the order in which I pulled them - they are randomly assorted, save the math for scientists volumes near the end.

 

 

Three Roads to Quantum Gravity. Lee Smolin

Just Six Numbers, Before the Beginning. Martin Rees

The Nature of Space and Time. Hawking and Penrose

The Quantum and the Lotus. Matthieu Ricard and Trinh Xuan Thuan

Faster than the Speed of Light. Joao Magueijo

How the Universe Got Its Spots. Janna Levin

Zen Physics. David Darling

The Book of Nothing, The Origin of the Universe. John D. Barrow

Geons, Black Holes & Quantum Foam. John Archibald Wheeler

The Big Bang. Simon Singh

The Fabric of the Cosmos, The Elegant Universe. Brian Greene

The Tao of Physics. Fritjof Capra

Ideas and Opnions, The Meaning of Relativity. Albert Einstein

Relativity. Albert Einstein

Hyperspace. Michio Kaku

Entanglement. Amir D. Aczel

Great Physicists. William Cropper

From Quarks to the Cosmos. Lederman and Schramm

A Brief History of Time, Black Holes And Baby Universes, The Theory of Everything. Stephen Hawking.

The Field. Lynne Mctaggart

Science and The Akashic Field. Errvin Laszlo

Ordinary Differential Equations. E. L. Ince

Vectors, Tensors and Groups. Bak and Lichtenberg

"What Do You Care What Other People Think?", The Meaning of It All. Richard P. Feynman

Strange Matters. Tom Siegrfried

Alpha & Omega. Charles Siefe

Simply Einstein. Richard Wolfson

The online Physics Archives at Cornell

 

Also, check out these others, (a few of which also appear on my list) as recommended by Janna Levin.

The Arful Universe, Theories of Everything, Pi in the Sky. John D. Barrow

The Cosmic Code. Heinz Pagels

The First Three Minutes. Steven Weinberg

Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid. Douglass Hofstadter

Lonley Hearts of the Cosmos. Dennis Overbye

The Elegant Universe. Brian Greene

Black Holes and time Warps: Einstein's Outreagous Leagacy. Kip Thorne

A Brief History of Time. Stpehen Hawking

The Life of the Cosmos, Three Roads to Quantm Gravity. Lee Smolin