Most of these books are accessible at about the level of the present volume but go into more detail about Einstein’s life or work. Titles marked with an asterisk require a little more scientific background. Quotes in the text, unless otherwise indicated, are from the collected works or the Princeton archive. See The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, volumes 1–10, published by Princeton University Press between 1987 and 2006. These take the story up to 1920, covering the major part of the story told in this book.
Amir Aczel, God’s Equation, New York: Random House, 1999.
Jeremy Bernstein, Albert Einstein and the Frontiers of Physics, Oxford University Press, 1996.
Alice Calaprice, editor, The Ultimate Quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press, 2010.
Ta-Pei Cheng, Einstein’s Physics, Oxford University Press, 2013.
Ronald Clark, Einstein: The Life and Times, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1973.
Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions, New York: Random House, 1954.
Albert Einstein, Relativity, New York: Crown 1961 (reprint in English of Einstein’s only ‘popular’ book; originally published by Holt, New York, 1921).
Albert Einstein, Autobiographical Notes, edited and translated by P. A. Schilpp, La Salle, Illinois: Open Court, 1979.
* Albert Einstein, The Collected Papers, Princeton University Press, 1987-2006 (see especially Volumes 1, 2 and 6, 1987, 1990 and 1997).
Lewis Carroll Epstein, Relativity Visualized, San Francisco: Insight Press, revised edition 1987.
Albrecht Fölsing, Albert Einstein, translated by Ewald Osers, New York: Viking, 1997.
George Gamow, Mr Mr Tompkins in Paperback, Cambridge University Press, 1965.
John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat, New York: Bantam, 1984.
John Gribbin, In Search of the Edge of Time, London: Bantam, 1992.
Mary Gribbin and John Gribbin, Time Travel for Beginners, London: Hodder, 2008.
Tony Hey and Patrick Walters, Einstein’s Mirror, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Walter Isaacson, Einstein, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
Thomas Levenson, Einstein in Berlin, New York: Bantam, 2003.
Robert Millikan, The Autobiography, London: Macdonald, 1951.
Alexander Moskowski, Conversations with Einstein, translated by Henry Brose, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1970 (reprint of 1921 edition).
Dennis Overbye, Einstein in Love, New York: Viking, 2000.
*Abraham Pais, Subtle is the Lord, Oxford University Press, 1982.
Jürgen Renn and Robert Schulmann, ed., Albert Einstein, Mileva Maric: The Love Letters, translated by Shawn Smith, Princeton University Press, 1992.
John Rigden, Einstein 1905, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Carl Seelig, Albert Einstein, translated by Mervyn Savill, London: Staples Press, 1956.
John Stachel, ed., Einstein’s Miraculous Year, Princeton University Press, 1998.
Russell Stannard, The Time and Space of Uncle Albert, London: Faber, 1989.
Michael White and John Gribbin, Einstein: A Life in Science, London: Simon & Schuster, revised edition 2005.
Clifford Will, Was Einstein Right?, New York: Basic Books, 1986.
Other biographies by John and Mary Gribbin
Richard Feynman: A Life in Science, London: Penguin, 1998.
FitzRoy: The Remarkable Story of Darwin’s Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
He Knew He Was Right: The Irrepressible Life of James Lovelock, London: Penguin, 2009.