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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.21 avg rating — 432,273 ratings
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Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
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4.17 avg rating — 4,275 ratings
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Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
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4.12 avg rating — 3,170 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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4.33 avg rating — 30,793 ratings
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Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
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4.09 avg rating — 3,363 ratings
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Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
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4.10 avg rating — 7,330 ratings
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Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
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4.05 avg rating — 1,646 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 81,417 ratings
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Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
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4.11 avg rating — 2,421 ratings
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Full Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest
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4.25 avg rating — 858 ratings
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The Dinosaur Hunters
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4.17 avg rating — 1,097 ratings
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
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4.06 avg rating — 2,088 ratings
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
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3.85 avg rating — 231,112 ratings
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
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4.28 avg rating — 12,163 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 — 29,664 ratings
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Underland: A Deep Time Journey
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4.22 avg rating — 22,107 ratings
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Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
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4.07 avg rating — 1,845 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
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4.22 avg rating — 42,949 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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4.14 avg rating — 10,363 ratings
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Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World, 1)
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4.18 avg rating — 4,242 ratings
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The Ends of the World
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4.30 avg rating — 6,320 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 — 3,254 ratings
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Grand Canyon
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4.34 avg rating — 2,721 ratings
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Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World
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3.87 avg rating — 2,461 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 — 2,981 ratings
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Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
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4.01 avg rating — 4,058 ratings
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Rising from the Plains (Annals of the Former World, 3)
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4.23 avg rating — 2,014 ratings
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Earth: An Intimate History
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3.90 avg rating — 1,356 ratings
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Assembling California (Annals of the Former World, 4)
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4.17 avg rating — 2,338 ratings
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Coal: A Human History
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3.73 avg rating — 2,296 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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3.88 avg rating — 22,238 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 — 2,095 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 — 14,295 ratings
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A Rock Is Lively
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4.28 avg rating — 1,644 ratings
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When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
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4.10 avg rating — 1,557 ratings
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Voyage of the Beagle
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4.02 avg rating — 8,623 ratings
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A Crack in the Edge of the World
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3.79 avg rating — 7,332 ratings
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In Suspect Terrain (Annals of the Former World, 2)
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4.12 avg rating — 1,317 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 — 959 ratings
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Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World
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3.70 avg rating — 724 ratings
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The Origin of Species
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4.01 avg rating — 123,986 ratings
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Coming Into the Country
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4.21 avg rating — 7,758 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 — 1,806 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 — 5,331 ratings
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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
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3.91 avg rating — 2,078 ratings
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The Control of Nature
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4.25 avg rating — 5,061 ratings
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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
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4.28 avg rating — 349,363 ratings
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Salt: A World History
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3.75 avg rating — 78,665 ratings
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Island on Fire
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3.86 avg rating — 880 ratings
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Earthquake Storms
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3.95 avg rating — 568 ratings
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Annals of the Former World
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4.37 avg rating — 4,437 ratings
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Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake
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3.90 avg rating — 813 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 — 806 ratings
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Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond
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4.04 avg rating — 1,084 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 — 764 ratings
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A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
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3.94 avg rating — 4,874 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 — 629 ratings
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The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth (The Magic School Bus #2)
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4.22 avg rating — 4,305 ratings
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Old Rock [is not boring]
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4.23 avg rating — 1,046 ratings
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Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Ever-Ending Earth
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4.05 avg rating — 865 ratings
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Rocks and Minerals (Smithsonian Handbooks)
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4.13 avg rating — 683 ratings
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Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks
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4.23 avg rating — 842 ratings
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Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth
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3.99 avg rating — 624 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 — 662 ratings
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Notes from Deep Time
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4.09 avg rating — 616 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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4.06 avg rating — 3,369 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 — 1,460 ratings
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us – A Bestselling Book on the Natural History of Mammalian Evolution
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4.37 avg rating — 8,688 ratings
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Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World
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4.13 avg rating — 2,948 ratings
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Remarkable Creatures
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3.90 avg rating — 56,890 ratings
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The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
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4.22 avg rating — 3,031 ratings
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Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
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4.49 avg rating — 9,790 ratings
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Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology (The Rediscovered Series)
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4.38 avg rating — 2,851 ratings
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Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
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3.96 avg rating — 656 ratings
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The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
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4.33 avg rating — 174,108 ratings
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Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 90,244 ratings
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals: North America
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4.28 avg rating — 500 ratings
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Strata: Stories from Deep Time
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4.06 avg rating — 561 ratings
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Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future
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4.13 avg rating — 577 ratings
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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
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4.19 avg rating — 122,794 ratings
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