26 must-read science books like The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans by Laura Trethewey

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The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans

By: Laura Trethewey

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The dramatic and action-packed story of the last mysterious place on earth—the world’s seafloor—and…

If you liked the science plot in The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans by Laura Trethewey , here is a list of 26 books like this:

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1. Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic

By: Emily Monosson

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A prescient warning about the mysterious and deadly world of fungi―and how to avert further loss ac… read more

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  • nature
  • science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
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2. The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

By: Adam Nicolson

3.51

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise. In the sea is… read more

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  • science
  • history
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  • environment
  • audiobook
"The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes."

-Adam Nicolson, The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

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3. President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier

By: C.W. Goodyear

4.30

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

An “ambitious, thorough, supremely researched” ( The Washington Post ) biography of the extraordina… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization by Edmund Conway

4. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

By: Edmund Conway

4.52

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • geography
  • environment
  • science
"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

Cover of Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben  Goldfarb

5. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

By: Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more

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  • nature
  • science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
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6. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis

4.44

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."

-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"

-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"

-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

Cover of A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly Weinersmith

7. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

By: Kelly Weinersmith

4.06

Format: 448 pages, ebook

Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
  • audiobook
"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."

-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"

-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

Cover of Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues by Jonathan Kennedy

8. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

By: Jonathan Kennedy

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
  • audiobook
"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

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9. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

By: Dan Flores

3.98

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more

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  • nature
  • science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

Cover of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar

10. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

By: Henry Grabar

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant

11. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more

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  • nature
  • science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of Ten Birds That Changed the World by Stephen  Moss

12. Ten Birds That Changed the World

By: Stephen Moss

3.97

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean by Susan Casey

13. The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

By: Susan Casey

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the … read more

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  • science
  • history
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are by Rebecca Boyle

14. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

By: Rebecca Boyle

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more

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  • nature
  • science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works by Helen Czerski

15. The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works

By: Helen Czerski

4.23

Format: 446 pages, Hardcover

A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"―the physics behind the ocean’s systems―and why it m… read more

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  • nature
  • science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America by Steve Inskeep

16. Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America

By: Steve Inskeep

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Writing history is a relay, which is also true of history itself. We build, if we can, on the legacies that are left us."

-Steve Inskeep, Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America

Cover of The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial by David Lipsky

17. The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial

By: David Lipsky

3.86

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parr… read more

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  • nature
  • science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos by Lisa Kaltenegger

18. Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

By: Lisa Kaltenegger

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott J. Shapiro

19. Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

By: Scott J. Shapiro

3.96

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking--and why we all need to underst… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
  • audiobook
"The problem with solutionism... It assumes that rationality has the tools to solve every problem. ... We think problems are decidable because we only see the decidable ones. We don't see the infinite…"

-Scott J. Shapiro, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

Cover of Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe by Philip Plait

20. Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe

By: Philip Plait

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A rip-roaring tour of the cosmos with the Bad Astronomer, bringing you up close and personal with t… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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21. The Brilliant Abyss

By: Helen Scales

4.04

Format: 288 pages, ebook

A journey into the alien depths of the sea, and into our possible future, from a marine biologist k… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
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"The oceans, it turns out, are full of bone-eating worms"

-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

"Not so very long ago, the deep was a tremendous void containing myths, legends and endless unknowns."

-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

"There are no compelling reasons for exploiting the deep, just industry and politics vying to push into that last frontier."

-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

"The deep has no stars at night to remind us it is there, and no moon shining down. And yet, this hidden place reaches into our daily lives and makes vital things happen without our knowing. The deep,…"

-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

Cover of Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World by Yepoka Yeebo

22. Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World

By: Yepoka Yeebo

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one of t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Secret History of Bigfoot by John O’Connor

23. The Secret History of Bigfoot

By: John O’Connor

3.10

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest to off-the-wall cryptozoological conventions, on… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality by Venki Ramakrishnan

24. Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality

By: Venki Ramakrishnan

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Utterly fascinating." —Bill Bryson A groundbreaking exploration of the science of why and how we a… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach by Ashlee Vance

25. When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach

By: Ashlee Vance

4.26

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

An Instant New York Times Bestseller A momentous look at the private companies building a revolu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
  • audiobook
Cover of The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage by Tom  Ireland

26. The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage

By: Tom Ireland

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At every moment, within your body and all around you, trillions of microscopic combatants are fight… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans by Laura Trethewey

27. The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans

By: Laura Trethewey

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The dramatic and action-packed story of the last mysterious place on earth—the world’s seafloor—and… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • travel
  • geology
  • nonfiction
  • maps
  • geography
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses by David Scheel

28. Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses

By: David Scheel

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A behavioral ecologist's riveting account of his decades-long obsession with octopuses: his discove… read more

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  • nature
  • science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy by Colin Dickey

29. Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy

By: Colin Dickey

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From beloved cultural historian and acclaimed author of Ghostland comes a history of America's obse… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist by Jasmin  Graham

30. Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist

By: Jasmin Graham

4.15

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From a marine biologist and co-founder of Minorities in Shark Sciences, a powerful debut the uplif… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of The Secret History of Sharks: The Rise of the Ocean's Most Fearsome Predators by John       Long

31. The Secret History of Sharks: The Rise of the Ocean's Most Fearsome Predators

By: John Long

4.11

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

World-leading paleontologist John Long presents the complete, untold story of how sharks emerged as… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • nature
  • science

29 Top audiobook books like The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans by Laura Trethewey

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Emily Monosson

3.87

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The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

Adam Nicolson

3.51

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President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier

C.W. Goodyear

4.30

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Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Ben Goldfarb

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The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

Jake Bittle

4.28

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Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond

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