5 must-read science books like Visions of Earth: National Geographic Photographs of Beauty, Majesty, and Wonder by National Geographic Society

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Visions of Earth: National Geographic Photographs of Beauty, Majesty, and Wonder

By: National Geographic Society

4.30

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Visions of Earth raises a curtain on the wonders of the world and thrills us with nature's opulence…

If you liked the science plot in Visions of Earth: National Geographic Photographs of Beauty, Majesty, and Wonder by National Geographic Society , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Freshwater

By: Akwaeke Emezi

4.02

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self… read more

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"It wasn’t me,"

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

"The worst part of embodiment is being unseen."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

"Sometimes, you recognize truth because it destroys you for a bit."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

"The gods do not care. It is not them, after all, that will pay the cost."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

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2. The Halloween Tree

By: Ray Bradbury

3.78

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

A fast-moving, eerie tale set on Halloween night... Eight costumed boys running to meet their fr… read more

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"Because of this one brave, new-thinking man, summer lives in the winter cave."

-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

"When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die."

-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

"Night and day. Summer and winter, boys. Seedtime and harvest. Life and death. That's what Halloween is, all rolled up in one."

-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

"The day Joe Pipkin was born all the Orange Crush and Nehi soda bottles in the world fizzed over; and joyful bees swarmed countrysides to sting maiden ladies."

-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

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3. The Night Before Christmas

By: Clement Clarke Moore , Jan Brett

4.39

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

This poem first appeared in a newspaper in Troy, New York, USA, on December 23, 1823, as "A Visit F… read more

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"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse."

-Clement Clarke Moore, The Night Before Christmas

"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be t…"

-Clement Clarke Moore, The Night Before Christmas

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4. National Geographic Stunning Photographs

By: Annie Griffiths

4.42

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Capturing the moment in which a firecracker explodes into a burst of electric energy or the last ra… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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5. Wild and Free: A Hope-Filled Anthem for the Woman Who Feels She is Both Too Much and Never Enough

By: Jess Connolly , Hayley Morgan

3.72

Format: None pages, Paperback

For all the fullness of God available to His daughters, we often feel limited by two defining insec… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Tintin in Tibet (Tintin, #20)

By: Hergé , Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper , Michael Turner

4.26

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

"NEPAL AIR DISASTER -- NO SURVIVORS." This newspaper headline transforms Tintin's holiday into an e… read more

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7. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

By: Muriel Spark

3.70

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more

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"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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8. Map: Exploring the World

By: Victoria Clarke

3.70

Format: 186 pages, Hardcover

300 stunning maps from all periods and from all around the world, exploring and revealing what maps… read more

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  • travel
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • science

9. Tuck Everlasting

By: Natalie Babbitt

4.02

Format: 424 pages,

Doomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wand… read more

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10. Messenger (The Giver, #3)

By: Lois Lowry

3.80

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Messengeris the masterful third novel in the Giver Quartet, which began with the dystopian bestsell… read more

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11. Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #1)

By: Patricia C. Wrede , Peter de Sève

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Cimorene is everything a princess is notsupposed to be: headstrong, tomboyish, smart - and bored. S… read more

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12. National Geographic Rarely Seen: Photographs of the Extraordinary

By: Susan Tyler Hitchcock , Stephen Alvarez

3.48

Format: 93 pages, Hardcover

In this dazzling book of visual wonders, National Geographic reveals a world very few will have the… read more

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  • art
  • travel
  • photography
  • nonfiction
  • nature

13. The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

By: Sam Kean

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The Periodic Table is one of man's crowning scientific achievements. But it's also a treasure trove… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science

14. Akata Witch (Akata Witch, #1)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Akata Witchtransports the reader to a magical place where nothing is quite as it seems. Born in New… read more

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15. Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

By: Allie Brosh

4.17

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to ex… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I couldn't even muster the enthusiasm to hate myself anymore."

-Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

"On a fundamental level, I am someone who would throw sand at children."

-Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

"I don't just want to do the right thing. I want to WANT to do the right thing."

-Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

"We're going to play a different game now. It's called "who can yell 'help' the loudest and the most."

-Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

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16. Simply Beautiful Photographs

By: Annie Griffiths

3.61

Format: 523 pages, Hardcover

National Geographic's Simply Beautiful Photographs takes readers on a spectacular visual journey th… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
  • nature

17. Life In Color: Photographs

By: Jonathan Adler , Susan Hitchcock , Annie Griffiths

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"Life in Color "is arranged by color in a rainbow of beauty. Each chapter, devoted to a color, begi… read more

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18. The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

By: David Mitchell , Naoki Higashida , K.A. Yoshida

5.00

Format: 36 pages, Hardcover

Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy … read more

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19. The Amityville Horror

By: Jay Anson

3.83

Format: 315 pages, Mass Market Paperback

28 Days of Terror in a House Possessed by Evil Spirits In December 1975, the Lutz family moved i… read more

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20. The Dark Is Rising (The Dark is Rising, #2)

By: Susan Cooper

4.00

Format: 98 pages,

"When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back, three from the circle, three from the track; w… read more

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21. Tintin au Congo (Tintin #2)

By: Hergé

4.42

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Apres son premier periple en Union Sovietique, c'est pour l'Afrique que s'embarquent cette fois-ci … read more

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22. Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel

By: Michio Kaku

3.75

Format: 273 pages,

A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible--from death rays and force fields to inv… read more

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23. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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24. Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

By: Tommie Smith

4.46

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold … read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders

By: Ransom Riggs

3.91

Format: 221 pages, Hardcover

A deluxe companion guide to the #1 bestselling Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series. Everythin… read more

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"An octopus in a tuxedo is still an octopus."

-Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders

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26. A Catered Book Club Murder (A Mystery With Recipes, #16)

By: Isis Crawford

3.57

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons are used to catering lip-smacking treats to an artsy group of book… read more

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27. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore: The Original Screenplay (Fantastic Beasts: The Original Screenplay, #3)

By: J.K. Rowling

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The official complete screenplay of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore by J.K. Rowling & S… read more

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28. Continuum (Pocket Change Collective)

By: Chella Man

4.41

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space … read more

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"That is the one of the beauties of my identity. It acts as a filter, guiding me toward the gems in life"

-Chella Man, Continuum (Pocket Change Collective)

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29. Visions of Earth: National Geographic Photographs of Beauty, Majesty, and Wonder

By: National Geographic Society

4.30

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Visions of Earth raises a curtain on the wonders of the world and thrills us with nature's opulence… read more

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  • art
  • travel
  • photography
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • nature
  • science
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30. Birds of the Photo Ark

By: Noah Strycker

4.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

For avian enthusiasts, from armchair observers to dedicated life-listers, this brilliant book from … read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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31. Fossil Hunter: How Mary Anning Changed the Science of Prehistoric Life

By: Cheryl Blackford

4.20

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

“This in-depth, beautifully illustrated biography of Mary Anning sings with the passion and perseve… read more

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  • science

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3.72

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Victoria Clarke

3.70

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3.48

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Jeanne DuPrau

3.89

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3.23

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