The following list includes books for children, adults, geologists, and the layperson.
Atlantic Geoscience Society, 2001, The Last Billion Years: A Geological History of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, Nimbus Publishing, Halifax, NS
Dann, Kevin, 1989, Traces on the Appalachians: A Natural History of Serpentine in Eastern North America, Rutgers University Press
Decker, Robert and Decker, Barbara, 1997, Volcanoes, W.H. Freeman and Company
Fortey, Richard, 2000, Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution, Knopf
Keay, John, 2001, The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India was Mapped and Everest Was Named, Harper Perennial
Kohnke, Helmut and Franzmeier, D.P., 1995, Soil Science Simplified, Waveland Press
Little, Richard, 1986, Dinosaurs, Dunes, and Drifting Continents: The Geohistory of the Connecticut Valley, Earth View (MA)
McPhee, John, 1983, In Suspect Terrain, Farrar Straus and Giroux (re-issue 1998 in paperback by Econo-Clad Books)
McPhee, John, 1990 , In Control of Nature, Noonday Press
McPhee, John, 1990, Encounters with the Archdruid, Noonday Press
McPhee, John, 1991, Rising from the Plains, Noonday Press
McPhee, John, 1994, Assembling California, Noonday Press
McSween, Harry J., 1999, Meteorites and their Parent Planets, Cambridge University Press
Morrison, Taylor, 2001, The Great Unknown, Houghton Mifflin Co.
Officer, Charles and Page, Jake, 1993, Tales of the Earth: Paroxsysms and Perturbations of the Blue Planet, Oxford University Press
Powell, John Wesley, 2002, The Exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons, National Geographic Society
Raymo, Chet and Raymo, Maureen E., 2001: Written in Stone: A Geological History of the Northeastern United States (2nd Edition), The Globe Pequot Press, Old Saybrook, CT
Rolando, Victor, 1992, 200 Years of Soot and Sweat: the Geology and Archeology of Vermont's Iron, Charcoal, and Lime Industries, Vermont Archaeological Society, Burlington, VT
Stevens, C.J., 1997, The Next Bend in the River, John Wade Publishing
Strahler, Arthur N., 1988, A Geologist's View of Cape Cod, Parnassas Imprints
Van Andel, Tjeerd, 1994, New Views of an Old Planet: A History of Global Change, Cambridge University Press
Van Diver, Brad, 1987, Roadside Geology of Vermont and New Hampshire, Mountain Press Publishing
Wieshampel, David B. and Young, Luther, 1996, Dinosaurs of the East Coast, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD
Winchester, Simon, 2001, The Map the Changed the World, Harper Collins
National Science Teachers Association Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12
Blobaum, Cindy, Illustrated by Michael P. Kline, 1999, Geology Rocks--50 Hands-on Activities to Explore the Earth, Williamson Publishing
Christian, Peggy, Illustrated by Barbara Hirsch Lember, 2000, If You Find a Rock, Harcourt
Cole, Joanna, Illustrated by Bruce Degen, 1989, The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth, Scholastic Trade
Gibbons, Gail, 1998, The Planet Earth: Inside Out, Mulberry Books
Hiscock, Brian, 1999, The Big Rock, Aladdin Paperback
Hooper, Meredith, Illustrated by Christopher Caody and Chris Coady, 1996, The Pebble in My Pocket: A History of Our Earth, Viking Childrens Books
Hurst, Carol Otis, 2001, Rocks in his Head, Greenwillow
Kerley, Barbara, Illustrated by Brian Selznick, 2001, The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins, Scholastic Trade
Martin, Jacqueline, Illustrated by Mary Azarian, 1998, Snowflake Bentley, Houghton Mifflin Co.
Prager, Ellen, J., Illustrated by Nancy Woodman, 2002, Sand, National Geographic Society
Thorson, Kristine and Thorson, Robert, Illustrated by Gustav Moore, 1998, Stone Wall Secrets, Tilbury House, Gardiner, ME
Vancleave, Janice, 1991, Janice Vancleave's Earth Science for Every Kid: 101 Easy Experiments that Really Work, John Wiley