Popular Books

• Voyage to the great attractor (Dressler)
• Before the beginning (Rees)
• A short history of the universe (Silk)
• The Big Bang (Silk)
• The first 3 minutes (Weinberg)
• The whole shebang:a state of the universe(s) report (Ferris)
• The inflationary universe (Guth)
• Lonely hearts of the cosmos (Overbye)
• Quintessence (Krauss)
• See also Teaching about Cosmology (Krauss and Starkman,
  workbook published by the American Association of Physics Teachers )
• The Runaway Universe: The race to discover the future of the Cosmos (Goldsmith)
• Einstein's greatest blunder? (Goldsmith)
• The little book of the big bang (Hogan)
• A briefer history of time (Shulman)
• The Cosmic Perspective (Bennett et al)
• Ripples in the Cosmos : A View Behind the Scenes of the New Cosmology (Rowan-Robinson)

More advanced:

• Scientific American Reader for Universe (Universe by Kaufmann and Freedman)
• An introduction to modern cosmology (Liddle)
• After the first 3 minutes (Padmanabhan)
• An introduction to cosmology (Bernstein)
• Cosmology:a first course (Lachieze-Rey)
• Introduction to cosmology(Narlikar, Hoyle)
• Perspectives on astrophysical cosmology (Rees)
• Introduction to cosmology (Roos)
• Foundations of modern cosmology (Hawley)
• Is the universe open or closed? (Coles and Ellis)

• First principles of cosmology (Linder)
• Cosmological physics (Peacock)
• The early universe (Kolb and Turner)
• Cosmology (Coles and Lucchin)
• Structure formation in the universe (Padmanabhan)
• Cosmology and astrophysics through problems (Padmanabhan)
• Principles of physical cosmology (Peebles)
• Cosmological Inflation and Large-Scale Structure (Liddle and Lyth)
• Galaxy Formation (Longair)
• Gravitation and Cosmology (Weinberg)
• Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (Goobar and Bergstrom)

Thanks to D. Balamore and N. Contopoulos for suggestions.