Reddit mentions of Special Relativity

If you're willing to buy a book, Helliwell is a great one. We used it in my special rel class, and some of the reviews mention self-studying from it too.

In response to your request for "a book that might help" you decide on physics...

I actually hated my first exposure to physics in high school, but my freshman mechanics course really got me excited about the subject matter. The textbook we used was excellent and is called "An Introduction to Mechanics" by Kleppner and Kolenkow (link).

If you have made up your mind on classical physics, check out an introductory text on Special Relativity. There is a highly readable and mathematically completely unintimidating text by a man named Helliwell (link) that I like! I'll warn that it completely skips a tensor-based approach (which would actually be useful later on) in favor of a trivial-algebra-based approach that does miss out on some of the beauty of the subject but does manage to blow your mind if you've never seen the material before.

There are other books out there that are potentially superior, but these are the ones I like, although I will say that in my opinion nothing beats Kleppner and Kolenkow in clarity or material at its level. I hope this helps, and if it doesn't, shoot me a PM and I'll get back to you!

Good luck!

Edited: formatting, grammar.