Geology

Geology is the science comprising the study of solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change. Geology can also refer generally to the study of the solid features of any celestial body (such as the geology of the Moon or Mars).

Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
Stalactite & Stalagmite: A Big Tale from a Little Cave
The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
Egg Marks the Spot (Skunk and Badger, #2)
The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future
When You Find the Right Rock
California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid
Strata: Stories from Deep Time
The High Sierra: A Love Story
Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
Annals of the Former World
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded [August 27, 1883]
Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World, 1)
Earth: An Intimate History
The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Crack in the Edge of the World
The Ends of the World
Rising from the Plains (Annals of the Former World, 3)
Principles of Geology
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
Assembling California (Annals of the Former World, 4)
Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootLab Girl by Hope JahrenSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonAlien Earths by Lisa KalteneggerInvisible Women by Caroline Criado Pérez
Women in Science
326 books — 103 voters
The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaA Crack in Creation by Jennifer A. Doudna21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah HarariLife on the Edge by Johnjoe McFaddenThe Epigenetics Revolution by Nessa Carey
Science Books Published In/After 2012
118 books — 27 voters

An Essay Upon Wind; With Curious Anecdotes of Eminent Peteurs... by Charles FoxAlbum D'Un Pessimiste by Alphonse RabbeThe Case Of The. Fox by William StanleyThe Dream-god, or A Singular Evolvement of Thought in Sleep by John CunninghamMelancholike Humours, in Verses of Diverse Natures by Nicholas Breton
Fascinating/Zero Rating
100 books — 3 voters
A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingCosmos by Carl SaganA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
History of the Universe and Earth
148 books — 71 voters

Altered States by Paddy ChayefskyThe Witch of Agnesi by Robert SpillerMaze Master by Kathleen O'Neal GearThe Probability of Murder by Ada MadisonThe Atlantis Gene by A.G. Riddle
Favorite STEM Thriller
12 books — 2 voters
Zetetic Astronomy by Samuel Birley RowbothamFlatland by Edwin A. AbbottAnno's Medieval World by Mitsumasa AnnoTHE NAVIGATOR WHO CROSSED THE ICE WALLS by Claudio NocelliZetetic Cosmogony by Thomas Winship
Flat Earth Books
17 books — 4 voters


Norman Maclean
Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.
Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

George Monbiot
walking in the Cambrian Desert, it sometimes seems impossible to imagine trees returning there, the emptiness stands as an incontestable fact, as if it were a matter of geology, not ecology
George Monbiot, Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life

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