Sign in with Facebook
29 books
—
4 voters
Oil Books
Showing 1-50 of 908
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as oil)
avg rating 4.44 — 12,499 ratings — published 1991
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as oil)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,180 ratings — published 2011
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as oil)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,251 ratings — published 2012
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as oil)
avg rating 4.14 — 445,897 ratings — published 2017
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as oil)
avg rating 4.15 — 37,588 ratings — published 1998
The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as oil)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,844 ratings — published 2013
The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as oil)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,757 ratings — published 2009
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oil)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,814 ratings — published 2020
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as oil)
avg rating 4.33 — 12,619 ratings — published 2021
Little Bee (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as oil)
avg rating 3.72 — 248,536 ratings — published 2008
The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oil)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,235 ratings — published 2009
Oil: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides)
by (shelved 8 times as oil)
avg rating 3.88 — 844 ratings — published 2008
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as oil)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,166 ratings — published 2003
Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as oil)
avg rating 3.79 — 652 ratings — published 2005
The Seven Sisters: The great oil companies & the world they shaped (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oil)
avg rating 4.05 — 222 ratings — published 1975
The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oil)
avg rating 3.86 — 194 ratings — published 2012
The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as oil)
avg rating 4.03 — 749 ratings — published 2003
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oil)
avg rating 4.39 — 36,598 ratings — published 2022
Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oil)
avg rating 4.25 — 10,221 ratings — published 2020
Oil, Power, and War: A Dark History (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as oil)
avg rating 4.53 — 247 ratings — published 2015
Saudi America: The Truth About Fracking and How It's Changing the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oil)
avg rating 3.81 — 903 ratings — published 2018
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oil)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,437 ratings — published 2014
The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oil)
avg rating 3.78 — 786 ratings — published 2014
The Secret World of Oil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oil)
avg rating 3.51 — 271 ratings — published 2014
Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oil)
avg rating 3.74 — 521 ratings — published 2009
Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oil)
avg rating 3.75 — 443 ratings — published 2007
Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oil)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,516 ratings — published 2005
Oil: Money, Politics, and Power in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oil)
avg rating 3.69 — 215 ratings — published 2009
Energy: A Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as oil)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,920 ratings — published 2018
Petroleum Refining in Nontechnical Language Third Edition (Pennwell Nontechnical Series)
by (shelved 5 times as oil)
avg rating 4.22 — 255 ratings — published 1979
The Global Oil & Gas Industry: Management, Strategy and Finance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as oil)
avg rating 4.16 — 77 ratings — published 2011
Crude Volatility: The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices (Center on Global Energy Policy Series)
by (shelved 5 times as oil)
avg rating 4.18 — 209 ratings — published
The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as oil)
avg rating 3.95 — 208 ratings — published 2012
Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as oil)
avg rating 4.12 — 964 ratings — published
The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as oil)
avg rating 4.10 — 822 ratings — published 2011
Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oil)
avg rating 3.87 — 284 ratings — published 2008
Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas--Not Less (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oil)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,550 ratings — published 2022
Blowout (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as oil)
avg rating 4.34 — 15,825 ratings — published 2019
The Petroleum Industry: A Nontechnical Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oil)
avg rating 3.56 — 16 ratings — published 1999
Breaking Rockefeller: The Incredible Story of the Ambitious Rivals Who Toppled an Oil Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oil)
avg rating 4.14 — 675 ratings — published 2016
Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oil)
avg rating 3.98 — 239 ratings — published 2016
Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum (American Empire Project)
by (shelved 4 times as oil)
avg rating 3.77 — 454 ratings — published 2004
Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oil)
avg rating 3.43 — 239 ratings — published 2005
“So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and prairie grass-powered organism and turning it into the last thing we need: another fossil fuel machine. This one, however, is able to suffer. ”
― The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
― The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“We've managed to convince ourselves that it is economically more productive and of greater benefit to the nation as a whole to give a person a tank and body armor, training and a ticket to some foreign country than to invest the same amount in a decent education, some job training, a piece of land and help learning how to build a house on it and grow some food. The fact that we think the former is perfectly normal but would be outraged at the latter -- and see it as "welfare"-- is , of course, insane.”
― Depletion & Abundance: Life on the New Home Front
― Depletion & Abundance: Life on the New Home Front
