Best books about energy issues
4. 
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
by:
Daniel Yergin
4.43 avg rating — 12,041 ratings 5. 
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
by:
Daniel Yergin
4.14 avg rating — 5,096 ratings 
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Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines
by:
Richard Heinberg
3.88 avg rating — 377 ratings 8. 
Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent
by:
Andrew Nikiforuk
3.88 avg rating — 283 ratings 9. 
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century 3.83 avg rating — 3,161 ratings
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America 3.71 avg rating — 13,903 ratings
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The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
by:
Richard Heinberg
4.03 avg rating — 749 ratings 
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Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World
by:
Richard Heinberg
3.84 avg rating — 308 ratings 
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The Doomsday Machine: The High Price of Nuclear Energy, the World's Most Dangerous Fuel
by:
Martin Cohen
3.47 avg rating — 15 ratings 
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The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century's Sustainability Crises
by:
Richard Heinberg
4.13 avg rating — 242 ratings 
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SuperFuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future
by:
Richard Martin
3.98 avg rating — 284 ratings 
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Not the Future We Ordered: Peak Oil, Psychology, and the Myth of Progress 3.98 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Night Fire: Big Oil, Poison Air, and Margie Richard's Fight to Save Her Town
by:
Ronnie Greene
4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings 24. 
Blood & Oil: A Prince's Memoir of Iran, from the Shah to the Ayatollah 3.99 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Petropoly: The Collapse of America's Energy Security Paradigm
by:
Anne Korin
4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings 27. 
Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food, and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture 3.76 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Europa im Erdölrausch: Die Folgen einer gefährlichen Abhängigkeit
by:
Daniele Ganser
4.31 avg rating — 77 ratings 
30. 
How to Really Save Money and Energy in Cooling Your Home
by:
George S. Barton
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 
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After Fukushima: What We Now Know: History of Nuclear Power and Radiation
by:
Andrew Daniels
4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings 30. 
Crude Volatility: The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices (Center on Global Energy Policy Series)
by:
Robert McNally
4.18 avg rating — 201 ratings 30. 
The Switch: How solar, storage and new tech means cheap power for all
by:
Chris Goodall
4.01 avg rating — 166 ratings 30. 
The Oil Wars Myth: Petroleum and the Causes of International Conflict
by:
Emily Meierding
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings 30. 
Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil
by:
Timothy Mitchell
4.13 avg rating — 927 ratings 
30. 
Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future
by:
Jeff Goodell
3.99 avg rating — 451 ratings 30. 
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Turning Oil Into Salt: Energy Independence Through Fuel Choice
by:
Anne Korin
3.95 avg rating — 63 ratings 46. 
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Not the Future We Ordered: Peak Oil, Psychology, and the Myth of Progress 3.98 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate
by:
Vaclav Smil
3.87 avg rating — 622 ratings 
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Cold War Energy: A Transnational History of Soviet Oil and Gas
by:
Jeronim Perovic
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings 46. 
Coal Wars: The Future of Energy and the Fate of the Planet
by:
Richard Martin
3.69 avg rating — 90 ratings 53. 
The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse
by:
Richard Heinberg
3.57 avg rating — 30 ratings 
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Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve (The University Center for Human Values Series)
by:
Ian Morris
3.69 avg rating — 324 ratings 
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The Fracking Debate: The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution (Center on Global Energy Policy Series)
by:
Daniel Raimi
4.09 avg rating — 67 ratings 59. 
Russian Energy Chains: The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The History of the Standard Oil Company (Unexpurgated Edition)
by:
Ida Tarbell
3.91 avg rating — 246 ratings 
63. 
Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City
by:
Steve Early
3.65 avg rating — 75 ratings 
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International Networks, Advocacy and EU Energy Policy-Making liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
65. 
A Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking: How One Texas Town Stood Up to Big Oil and Gas
by:
Adam Briggle
3.62 avg rating — 60 ratings 
69. 
Europe's Long Energy Journey: Towards an Energy Union?
by:
David Buchan
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 69. 
Breaking Rockefeller: The Incredible Story of the Ambitious Rivals Who Toppled an Oil Empire
by:
Peter B. Doran
4.15 avg rating — 665 ratings 
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A Liberal Actor in a Realist World: The European Union Regulatory State and the Global Political Economy of Energy
by:
Andreas Goldthau
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Energy Union: Europe's New Liberal Mercantilism? (International Political Economy Series)
by:
Svein S Andersen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 77. 
Going to Stay: How George W. Bush Mired America in the Long War for Oil & Empire
by:
Thomas Powers
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings 79. 
New Political Economy of Energy in Europe: Power to Project, Power to Adapt (International Political Economy Series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power
by:
Bradley Hope
4.25 avg rating — 9,597 ratings 81. 
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
by:
Daniel Yergin
4.18 avg rating — 5,491 ratings 
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Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s
by:
Meg Jacobs
3.86 avg rating — 97 ratings 84. 
The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
by:
Russell Gold
3.78 avg rating — 779 ratings 85. 
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Renewable Energy: A Primer for the Twenty-First Century
by:
Bruce Usher
4.33 avg rating — 292 ratings 87. 
Harness the Sun: America's Quest for a Solar-Powered Future
by:
Philip Warburg
3.62 avg rating — 32 ratings 88. 
The Burning Answer: The Solar Revolution: A Quest for Sustainable Power
by:
Keith Barnham
3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings 89. 
On the Clean Road Again: Biodiesel and the Future of the Family Farm
by:
Willie Nelson
4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings 90. 
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century
by:
Burton Richter
3.71 avg rating — 72 ratings 
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Buying Time: Environmental Collapse and the Future of Energy
by:
Kaz Makabe
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 93. 
Lighting the World: Transforming our Energy Future by Bringing Electricity to Everyone
by:
Jim Rogers
3.62 avg rating — 42 ratings 94. 
Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
by:
Fred Krupp
3.77 avg rating — 311 ratings 95. 
California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid
by:
Katherine Blunt
4.28 avg rating — 1,438 ratings 96. 
Electric City: The Lost History of Ford and Edison’s American Utopia
by:
Thomas Hager
3.87 avg rating — 415 ratings 97. 
The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
by:
Gretchen Bakke
3.87 avg rating — 4,503 ratings 98. 
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The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
by:
Noam Chomsky
3.86 avg rating — 1,561 ratings 100. 
Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology
by:
Alexis Madrigal
3.79 avg rating — 128 ratings