Sign in with Facebook
128 books
—
86 voters
Earth Science Books
Showing 1-50 of 1,832
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 80,806 ratings — published 2014
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 429,154 ratings — published 2003
The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth (The Magic School Bus #2)
by (shelved 11 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,288 ratings — published 1987
Earth: An Intimate History (Vintage)
by (shelved 11 times as earth-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,353 ratings — published 2004
The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,235 ratings — published 2012
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,826 ratings — published 2018
Annals of the Former World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,411 ratings — published 1998
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,333 ratings — published 1989
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as earth-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,769 ratings — published 2021
The Ends of the World (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,251 ratings — published 2017
Water Is Water: A Book About the Water Cycle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,260 ratings — published 2015
Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World (Popular Science)
by (shelved 7 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,936 ratings — published 2002
Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth (Princeton Science Library)
by (shelved 7 times as earth-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 800 ratings — published 2003
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as earth-science)
avg rating 3.81 — 14,231 ratings — published 2001
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as earth-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,122 ratings — published 2003
Earth: Portrait of a Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as earth-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 331 ratings — published 2001
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.32 — 53,333 ratings — published 2020
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 90,800 ratings — published 2015
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,405 ratings — published 2015
Fossils tell of long ago (Let's Read-And-Find-Out Science)
by (shelved 6 times as earth-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 251 ratings — published 1972
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as earth-science)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,659 ratings — published 2007
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,870 ratings — published 2006
The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 655 ratings — published 2007
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,358 ratings — published 1997
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as earth-science)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,201 ratings — published 2019
The Street Beneath My Feet (Look Closer)
by (shelved 5 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.50 — 541 ratings — published
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 211,911 ratings — published 2017
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as earth-science)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,302 ratings — published 2005
Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as earth-science)
avg rating 3.99 — 624 ratings — published 2005
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 56,059 ratings — published 1962
Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as earth-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 274 ratings — published 2007
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,144 ratings — published 2022
Principles of Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as earth-science)
avg rating 3.91 — 361 ratings — published 1830
Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 193 ratings — published 2004
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 42,141 ratings — published 2018
Atmospheric Science: An Introductory Survey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 79 ratings — published 1977
Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as earth-science)
avg rating 3.82 — 395 ratings — published 1999
![Meteorology Today: An Introduction to Weather, Climate, and the Environment [with MeteorologyNOW & InfoTrac]](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1177185155l/685830._SX50_.jpg)
Meteorology Today: An Introduction to Weather, Climate, and the Environment [with MeteorologyNOW & InfoTrac] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.00 — 215 ratings — published 1982
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as earth-science)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,016 ratings — published 2006
Understanding Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.03 — 206 ratings — published 2006
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 73,933 ratings — published 1999
Nature's Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.02 — 128 ratings — published 2008
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 486,274 ratings — published 1988
A Rock Is Lively (Family Treasure Nature Encylopedias)
by (shelved 4 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,631 ratings — published 2012
Volcanoes (Rise and Shine)
by (shelved 4 times as earth-science)
avg rating 3.78 — 92 ratings — published 1985
Vanished Ocean: How Tethys Reshaped the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as earth-science)
avg rating 3.66 — 114 ratings — published 2010
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 123,387 ratings — published 1859
The Dinosaur Hunters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,086 ratings — published 2000
Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as earth-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 905 ratings — published 2010
The Reasons for Seasons (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as earth-science)
avg rating 3.89 — 358 ratings — published 1995
“They are near the bottom of the food chain - a meal for fish and birds - while humans eat from the top of the food chain, consuming an astonishing array of what lies on the planet. But eventually, even we become food for the worms. Shakespeare saw this connection, writing in Hamlet, "A man may fish with a worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of a fish that hath fed of that worm.”
―
―
“In the history of the earth, the sun remains still.”
―
―
