**Special Relativity**
- E. Gourgoulhon (2013), *Special Relativity in General Frames.*
This is a rigorous and encyclopedic treatment of special relativity. It contains pretty much everything you will ever need in special relativity, like the Lorentz factor for a rotating, accelerating observer. It is not an introduction, the author does not bother to motivate spacetime at all.
**Introductory General Relativity**
These books are "introductory" because they assume no knowledge of relativity, special or general. Additionally, they do not require the reader to have any knowledge of topolog…