Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos

Deborah Blum Dennis Overbye does a wonderful job of showing just how incredibly driven a lot of these scientists were to achieve scientific goals. (Source)

Stuart Clark This is a massively ambitious book, describing the way cosmology progressed in the 20th century through the stories of the people who made the advances. (Source)

Andrew Lawrence If you want to know how astronomy really works then this is a book you should read. It is warts and all, about the competing personalities. (Source)