Bill H. (WGH) reviewed Hunting Down the Universe: The Missing Mass, Primordial Black Holes, and Other Dark Matters (Helix Books) on + 29 more book reviews
While this can't qualify as a 'good read' (because Hawkins isn't a professional writer), it is one of the best physics books I've read. Honest, clever, witty and pulls no punches. It is for people with some experience with cosmology and large-scale physics. His ideas are also fascinating.