30 Best

Geology Books

1

The Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79

2

The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do about Them)

3

Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization

4

Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens

5

Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America

6

Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto

7

Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History

8

Lucky Planet: Why Earth is Exceptional-and What That Means for Life in the Universe

9

Europe: A Natural History

10

Grand Canyon

11

The Galápagos: A Natural History

12

Island on Fire: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World

13

Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Land

14

The Wood for the Trees: The Long View of Nature from a Small Wood

15

The Map That Changed the World

16

Annals of the Former World

17

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

18

Basin and Range

19

Earth: An Intimate History

20

A Short History of Nearly Everything

21

A Crack in the Edge of the World

22

Rising from the Plains

23

The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet

24

Assembling California

25

Principles of Geology

26

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

27

Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth

28

The Control of Nature

29

The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth