 | A Journey into Gravity and Spacetime ("Scientific American" Library) by John Archibald Wheeler
Buy used from: £22.90 For an overall understanding of Special and General Relativity, qualitative and delightful concepts.
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 | Special Relativity (MIT Introductory Physics) by Anthony French
Buy new: £39.82 / Used from: £24.45 An experimental approach and a classical book to start seriously quantitatively
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 | Spacetime Physics: Introduction to Special Relativity by Edwin F. Taylor
Buy new: £37.40 / Used from: £28.15 Understand deeply the concepts of Special Relativity and study it carefully
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 | Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein
Buy used from: £0.25 Now, take a look to Einstein's stuff.
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 | Exploring Black Holes: An Introduction to General Relativity by Edwin F. Taylor
Buy new: £34.19 / Used from: £43.91 Slightly jumping over General Relativity and familiarise with its formulation
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 | Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program) by K S Thorne
Buy used from: £3.60 What about learning the history from discovering Relativity to understanding Black Holes?
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 | A Short Course in General Relativity by James Foster
Buy used from: £14.54 This is a first serious real mathematical approach to General Relativity and its consecuences
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 | Gravity from the Ground Up: An Introductory Guide to Gravity and General Relativity by Bernard Schutz
Buy new: £32.26 / Used from: £29.47 A new book by Schutz.
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 | A First Course in General Relativity by Bernard F. Schutz
Buy used from: £29.99 Another classic. Work through it all.
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 | Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity by Sean Carroll
Buy used from: £49.99 Veryyy good book, deeply developed and comprehensive. The jump to an advanced treatment
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 | Gravitation (Physics Series) by Charles W. Misner
Buy new: £81.55 / Used from: £49.99 THE BIBLE, but in some parts hard to follow if you lack knowledge in other subjects of Physics. Very good for reference
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 | Geometrical Methods of Mathematical Physics by Bernard F. Schutz
Buy new: £20.59 / Used from: £20.92 Just a good compendium of mathematical tools well explained (may be read this one before the last two)
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 | Geometry, Topology and Physics (Graduate Student Series in Physics) by M. Nakahara
Buy new: £39.82 / Used from: £35.00 Very advanced mathematical tools for most theoretical physics
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 | General Relativity by Wald
Buy new: £25.98 / Used from: £24.62 Advanced Book for graduates. Highly mathematical.
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 | The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics) by S. W. Hawking
Buy new: £48.45 / Used from: £29.95 Another very advanced book on black holes, cosmology and advanced applications of Einstein's theory
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 | Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity by Steven Weinberg
Buy new: £87.67 / Used from: £67.99 One of the very classics (using the original old-fashioned Einstein's approach) but hard to find
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 | Cosmological Physics (Cambridge Astrophysics) by J. A. Peacock
Buy new: £40.85 / Used from: £29.13 One of the big applications of Relativity.
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 | Principles of Physical Cosmology (Princeton Series in Physics) by Phillip James Edwin Peebles
Buy new: £41.11 / Used from: £11.95 Idem as above.
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 | The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes (Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences) by S. Chandrasekhar
Buy new: £42.75 / Used from: £44.33 And the other big conclusion of G.R. (very advanced mathematics)
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 | Feynman Lectures on Gravitation (Penguin Press Science) by Richard P. Feynman
Buy used from: £49.99 Feynman's exposition as a gauge field theory.
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 | Introducing Einstein's Relativity by Ray d'Inverno
Buy new: £37.91 / Used from: £35.99 Another introductory text
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 | Problem Book in Relativity and Gravitation by A. Lightman
Buy new: £46.50 / Used from: £30.00 It seems to be the only one specialized...
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 | Modern Cosmology: Anisotropies and Inhomogeneities in the Universe by Scott Dodelson
Buy new: £40.48 / Used from: £41.70 Seems to be a popular book in cosmology
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 | Theory and Experiment in Gravitational Physics by Clifford M. Will
Buy new: £40.85 / Used from: £47.53 A remarkable (unique?) reference in experimental relativiy and gravity!!
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 | The Geometry of Physics: An Introduction by Theodore Frankel
Buy new: £29.66 / Used from: £23.68 Mathematical methods, peculiar notation sometimes but very good and deep insight on geometry!
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