by Lyman Page, Princeton University Press (2020)

The Little Book of Cosmology is for non-specialists. It presents a concise introduction to the standard model of cosmology.

It was one of BBC Science Focus Magazine's best books of 2020. Marcus Chown wrote in Prospect: "This ranks alongside Steven Weinberg's The First Three Minutes as the best book on cosmology I have ever read... a compact treasure-trove of cosmic insights to be read, mulled over, and read again."

David Appell reviews it in Physics World. And an algorithm finds that it is one of the 9 best Cosmology books of All Time! Excerpts are here.

by Jim Peebles, Lyman Page, and Bruce Partridge, Cambridge University Press (2009)

Finding the Big Bang is a collection of 44 short essays by many of the founders of modern "physical cosmology." The first two chapters give a framework for the appreciating the maturation of the field while the last chapter gives an empirical assessment of what has become the standard model of cosmology. 

Some expert reviews are on Amazon.