Actually, I’m not a fan of Stephen Hawking’s writing. Carl Sagan is good, but it’s a bit dated.
Brian Greene The Elegant Universe is really good until you get to the last third and he goes off on string theory. Fabric of the Cosmos is also good. Timothy Ferris The Whole Shebang is very good, but also a bit dated—it’s 20 years old now, but probably the best written popular science book on cosmology I’ve ever read.