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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 429,803 ratings
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Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
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4.17 avg rating — 4,224 ratings
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Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
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4.12 avg rating — 3,169 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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4.33 avg rating — 30,496 ratings
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Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
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4.08 avg rating — 3,359 ratings
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Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
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4.10 avg rating — 7,180 ratings
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Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
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4.05 avg rating — 1,636 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 80,945 ratings
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Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
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4.11 avg rating — 2,410 ratings
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Full Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest
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4.24 avg rating — 856 ratings
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The Dinosaur Hunters
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4.17 avg rating — 1,089 ratings
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
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4.05 avg rating — 2,075 ratings
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
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3.85 avg rating — 229,572 ratings
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
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4.28 avg rating — 12,102 ratings
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Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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4.04 avg rating — 29,478 ratings
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Underland: A Deep Time Journey
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4.22 avg rating — 21,824 ratings
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Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
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4.07 avg rating — 1,829 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
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4.21 avg rating — 42,317 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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4.14 avg rating — 10,339 ratings
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Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World, 1)
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4.18 avg rating — 4,218 ratings
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The Ends of the World
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4.30 avg rating — 6,270 ratings
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The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
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4.24 avg rating — 3,238 ratings
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Grand Canyon
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4.34 avg rating — 2,710 ratings
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Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World
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3.87 avg rating — 2,456 ratings
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The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
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3.88 avg rating — 2,969 ratings
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Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
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4.01 avg rating — 4,009 ratings
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Rising from the Plains (Annals of the Former World, 3)
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4.24 avg rating — 2,007 ratings
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Earth: An Intimate History
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3.90 avg rating — 1,354 ratings
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Assembling California (Annals of the Former World, 4)
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4.17 avg rating — 2,328 ratings
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Coal: A Human History
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3.73 avg rating — 2,293 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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3.88 avg rating — 22,149 ratings
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The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
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3.92 avg rating — 2,079 ratings
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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3.81 avg rating — 14,245 ratings
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A Rock Is Lively
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4.28 avg rating — 1,635 ratings
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When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
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4.10 avg rating — 1,552 ratings
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Voyage of the Beagle
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4.02 avg rating — 8,586 ratings
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A Crack in the Edge of the World
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3.79 avg rating — 7,312 ratings
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In Suspect Terrain (Annals of the Former World, 2)
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4.12 avg rating — 1,311 ratings
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The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
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4.10 avg rating — 955 ratings
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Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World
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3.70 avg rating — 721 ratings
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The Origin of Species
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4.01 avg rating — 123,511 ratings
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Coming Into the Country
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4.21 avg rating — 7,712 ratings
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The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us and What We Can Do about Them
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4.13 avg rating — 1,796 ratings
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The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth
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3.86 avg rating — 984 ratings
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
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3.76 avg rating — 5,311 ratings
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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
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3.91 avg rating — 2,070 ratings
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The Control of Nature
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4.25 avg rating — 5,033 ratings
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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
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4.28 avg rating — 345,387 ratings
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Salt: A World History
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3.75 avg rating — 78,209 ratings
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Island on Fire
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3.86 avg rating — 871 ratings
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Earthquake Storms
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3.95 avg rating — 566 ratings
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Annals of the Former World
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4.37 avg rating — 4,416 ratings
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Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake
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3.90 avg rating — 810 ratings
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Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
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3.97 avg rating — 803 ratings
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Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond
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4.04 avg rating — 1,073 ratings
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Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami That Could Devastate North America
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4.18 avg rating — 762 ratings
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A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
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3.94 avg rating — 4,791 ratings
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The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of Earth's Antiquity
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3.89 avg rating — 627 ratings
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The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth (The Magic School Bus #2)
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4.23 avg rating — 4,290 ratings
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Old Rock [is not boring]
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4.23 avg rating — 1,034 ratings
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Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Ever-Ending Earth
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4.05 avg rating — 863 ratings
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Rocks and Minerals (Smithsonian Handbooks)
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4.13 avg rating — 682 ratings
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Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks
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4.24 avg rating — 797 ratings
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Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth
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3.99 avg rating — 623 ratings
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The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood
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3.97 avg rating — 523 ratings
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Mountains of Fire: The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes
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4.03 avg rating — 645 ratings
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Notes from Deep Time
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4.08 avg rating — 612 ratings
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A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
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4.05 avg rating — 3,308 ratings
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The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
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3.84 avg rating — 1,439 ratings
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
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4.37 avg rating — 8,452 ratings
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Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World
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4.13 avg rating — 2,940 ratings
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Remarkable Creatures
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3.90 avg rating — 56,487 ratings
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The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
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4.22 avg rating — 2,938 ratings
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Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
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4.50 avg rating — 9,425 ratings
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Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology (The Rediscovered Series)
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4.38 avg rating — 2,813 ratings
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Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
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3.96 avg rating — 646 ratings
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The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
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4.33 avg rating — 172,280 ratings
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Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 89,833 ratings
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