Reddit mentions of Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens: Deciphering The Dynasties of the Ancient Maya

The books under the Maya section in the link u/Mictlantecuhtli gave are good. Forest of Kings, Michael Coe's The Maya, etc.

For a general overview of the Maya with great pictures, try Maya: Divine Kings of the Rainforest (definitely an inter-library loan book to get!).

If you're interested in Maya writing try Michael Coes' Reading the Maya Glyphs, or The Art of the Maya Scribe.

Much of Maya history is known from the text written about the royalty, so if that interests you try Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens. Talks about the individuals and the relations between different cities, but might be too specific about names and chronology so it depends on whether you like that stuff. Maybe get a general overview of their history first, then definitely explore the people.

You can find a lot in our booklist- I'll single out some from there that focus on writing and add some more.

• Breaking the Maya Code by Michael Coe is the example of what popular history can be. It's a thrilling account of the decipherment of Maya writing, which Dr. Coe played a big part in.
  
  
• Reading the Maya Glyphs by Coe and Mark VanStone is a sort of workbook companion to Coe's history. It teaches the fundamentals of Maya writing and is handy guide for further studies.
  
  
• Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens by Simon Martin and Nikolai Grube is less explicitly about the glyphs and more about what we can learn from them. Still, Martin and Grube are skilled epigraphers who reveal the history of several important city states with emphasis on how archaeologists and epigraphers work.
  
  
• Maya Decipherment is David Stuart's blog and a great thing to follow. Simon Martin and Stephen Houston frequently contribute, as do a handful of others. Lots of great articles of various topics,
  
  
• FAMSI has a great selection of resources on all kinds of Mesoamerican writing. Josserand & Hopkins' Glyph Workbook is generally better than Coe & VanStone's, if less official. The Kerr Vase Database is fun to look through, and the searchable dictionaries are useful.
  
  
• Corpus of Maya Heirogylphic Inscriptions from Harvard's Peabody Museum is a handy database that's easy to browse and nice to have on hand when other books/articles reference a monument. Sometimes has translations, almost always has transcriptions.
  
  
  
  

Maya history enthusiast here.

IMHO

to begin with:

http://www.amazon.com/Seventh-Ancient-Peoples-Places-Paperback/dp/B0043QJF08/ref=sr_1_12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1422130964&sr=1-12&keywords=the+maya+coe

And then:

http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Maya-Code-Third-Edition/dp/0500289557

http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Kings-Dynasty-Ritual-Maya/dp/0807612782/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1422130964&sr=1-9&keywords=the+maya+coe

http://www.amazon.com/Chronicle-Maya-Kings-Queens-Deciphering/dp/0500287260/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1422131034&sr=1-1&keywords=maya+kings+and+queens