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This list includes NONFICTION books about 5 Great Extinctions and the occassional smaller extinctions.
PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE ANY BOOKS ON THE SIXTH EXTINCTION. These are included in this list:
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PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE ANY BOOKS ON THE SIXTH EXTINCTION. These are included in this list:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
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End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
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3.97 avg rating — 550 ratings
score: 298,
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When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
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4.10 avg rating — 1,525 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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4.14 avg rating — 10,188 ratings
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Europe: A Natural History
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4.10 avg rating — 966 ratings
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Animals of a Bygone Era: An Illustrated Compendium
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4.38 avg rating — 465 ratings
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Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago - Updated Edition
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3.86 avg rating — 176 ratings
score: 98,
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A Most Improbable Journey: A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves
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3.93 avg rating — 348 ratings
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Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It
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Gabrielle Walker (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 417 ratings
score: 98,
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After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals
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3.84 avg rating — 183 ratings
score: 97,
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On Methuselah's Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions
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4.02 avg rating — 61 ratings
score: 97,
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Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution
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4.11 avg rating — 2,387 ratings
score: 97,
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Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth - Updated Edition
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3.98 avg rating — 766 ratings
score: 96,
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Once & Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals
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3.97 avg rating — 210 ratings
score: 96,
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The Ends of the World
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Peter Brannen (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 5,947 ratings
score: 95,
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The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions
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Peter Brannen (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 5,947 ratings
score: 95,
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The Worst of Times: How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions
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3.71 avg rating — 100 ratings
score: 94,
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Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future
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3.94 avg rating — 365 ratings
score: 93,
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Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere
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3.90 avg rating — 147 ratings
score: 92,
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