Best Popular Geology Books on Goodreads
2. 
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
by:
Lewis Dartnell
4.17 avg rating — 3,947 ratings 
4. 
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
by:
Richard Fortey
4.08 avg rating — 3,321 ratings 
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Full Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest
by:
Sandi Doughton
4.24 avg rating — 826 ratings 
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
by:
Marc Reisner
4.28 avg rating — 11,658 ratings 13. 
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by:
Neil Shubin
4.04 avg rating — 28,099 ratings 
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Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
by:
Marcia Bjornerud
4.07 avg rating — 1,658 ratings 16. 
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
by:
Steve Brusatte
4.21 avg rating — 38,321 ratings 
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The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
by:
Robert M. Hazen
4.24 avg rating — 3,071 ratings 
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Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World
by:
Tom Zoellner
3.87 avg rating — 2,401 ratings 21. 
The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
by:
Neil Shubin
3.87 avg rating — 2,902 ratings 
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Rising from the Plains (Annals of the Former World, 3)
by:
John McPhee
4.24 avg rating — 1,933 ratings 27. 
Assembling California (Annals of the Former World, 4)
by:
John McPhee
4.17 avg rating — 2,248 ratings 
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by:
Simon Winchester
3.88 avg rating — 21,501 ratings 30. 
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
by:
Andrea Wulf
4.32 avg rating — 28,487 ratings 31. 
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
by:
Simon Winchester
3.82 avg rating — 13,927 ratings 31. 
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
by:
Henry Fountain
3.92 avg rating — 1,985 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
by:
Alan Cutler
3.86 avg rating — 974 ratings 39. 
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
by:
Simon Winchester
3.76 avg rating — 5,186 ratings 
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Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami That Could Devastate North America
by:
Jerry Thompson
4.18 avg rating — 740 ratings 44. 
The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of Earth's Antiquity
by:
Jack Repcheck
3.88 avg rating — 610 ratings 44. 
Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth
by:
James M. Tabor
3.72 avg rating — 4,047 ratings 46. 
The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth (The Magic School Bus #2)
by:
Joanna Cole
4.22 avg rating — 4,262 ratings 47. 
Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Ever-Ending Earth
by:
Craig Childs
4.05 avg rating — 852 ratings 
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The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us and What We Can Do about Them
by:
Lucy Jones
4.13 avg rating — 1,704 ratings 50. 
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The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
by:
Tim Flannery
4.09 avg rating — 922 ratings 52. 
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Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
by:
Thomas Halliday
4.11 avg rating — 6,156 ratings 
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Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake
by:
Kathryn Miles
3.90 avg rating — 788 ratings 61. 
Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
by:
Andrew H. Knoll
3.99 avg rating — 753 ratings 62. 
Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond 4.04 avg rating — 958 ratings
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A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
by:
Andrew H. Knoll
3.94 avg rating — 4,218 ratings ![Old Rock [is not boring]](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1564174550i/40749393._SX100_.jpg)