Epic Earth: A Wild Ride through the History of Life on Our Planet

Lindsay Nikole

Annals of the Former World

John McPhee

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson

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

Robert M. Hazen

Earth: An Intimate History

Richard Fortey

The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present

Steve Brusatte

Strata: Stories from Deep Time

Laura Poppick

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Graeber

Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art

Rebecca Wragg Sykes

A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

Andrew H. Knoll

Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution

Richard Fortey

The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

Riley Black

The Dinosaurs Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting History

Michael J. Benton

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

Steve Brusatte

Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History

Dan Flores

Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind

David Vandermeulen

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

Peter Godfrey-Smith

Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

Neil Shubin

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Stephen Jay Gould

The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions

Peter Brannen

A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters

Henry Gee

Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

Thomas Halliday

When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance

Riley Black

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

Steve Brusatte