7 must-read history books like Travels with Trilobites: Adventures in the Paleozoic by Andy Secher

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Travels with Trilobites: Adventures in the Paleozoic

By: Andy Secher

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Trilobites were some of the most successful and versatile organisms ever to exist. Among the earlie…

If you liked the history plot in Travels with Trilobites: Adventures in the Paleozoic by Andy Secher , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Half-Off Ragnarok (InCryptid, #3)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.99

Format: 356 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When Alex Price agreed to go to Ohio to oversee a basilisk breeding program and assist in the recov… read more

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"Let's go commit senseless acts of science."

-Seanan McGuire, Half-Off Ragnarok (InCryptid, #3)

"ALL GLORY TO THE SCIENCE RULES OF SCIENCE!"

-Seanan McGuire, Half-Off Ragnarok (InCryptid, #3)

"Lindworms are a sign of a healthy ecosystem,"

-Seanan McGuire, Half-Off Ragnarok (InCryptid, #3)

"The moon doesn’t approve of the screaming in the cornfield."

-Seanan McGuire, Half-Off Ragnarok (InCryptid, #3)

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2. Discount Armageddon (InCryptid, #1)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Cryptid, noun: Any creature whose existence has not yet been proven by science. See also "Monster."… read more

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"She’s a telepath?"

-Seanan McGuire, Discount Armageddon (InCryptid, #1)

"Crazy gets all the knives."

-Seanan McGuire, Discount Armageddon (InCryptid, #1)

"I've done tangos with men who thought my ass was a squeaky toy."

-Seanan McGuire, Discount Armageddon (InCryptid, #1)

"Parthenogenesis means never having your mother tell you to stop doing that or you'll go blind."

-Seanan McGuire, Discount Armageddon (InCryptid, #1)

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3. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

By: Elizabeth Kolbert

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life… read more

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  • history
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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4. Midnight Blue-Light Special (InCryptid, #2)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.59

Format: 370 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Cryptid, noun: 1. Any creature whose existence has been suggested but not proven scientifically. Te… read more

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5. Make Me (Jack Reacher, #20)

By: Lee Child

3.52

Format: 257 pages,

A Jack Reacher Novel "Why is this town called Mother's Rest?"That's all Reacher wants to know. But … read more

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6. Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution

By: Richard Fortey

3.44

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life,offers a marvelousl… read more

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7. A Letter of Mary (Mary Russell, #3)

By: Laurie R. King

4.28

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

The year is 1923 and Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell receive a visit from Dorothy Ruskin, an amate… read more

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8. Spelunking Through Hell (InCryptid, #11)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Now in trade paperback, the eleventh book in the fast-paced InCryptid urban fantasy series returns … read more

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

By: Riley Black

3.95

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books! "This is top-drawer science writi… read more

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  • history
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • palaeontology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"That's the goal of paleontology, after all - to start with the offerings of death and work back towards life."

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

"It's an extension of how we often cope in the wake of our own personal traumas, remembering the wounds as we struggle to see the growth stimulated by terrible events. Resilience has no meaning withou…"

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

"In time, extinction comes for all species. Some leave descendants. Others do not. Beautiful as the image is, there is no tree of life. The shape of biodiversity is more like a chaotic blanket, indivi…"

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

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10. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

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"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

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11. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

By: Candice Millard

3.84

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • nature
"..the charm of the scenery was perhaps enhanced by the reflection that my eyes might never look upon it again....Masses of brown-purple clouds covered the quarter of the heavens where the sun was abo…"

-Candice Millard, River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

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

By: Steve Brusatte

4.38

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more

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  • history
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • palaeontology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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13. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

By: Steve Brusatte

4.20

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more

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  • history
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • palaeontology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."

-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."

-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."

-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."

-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

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14. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

By: Ed Yong

4.47

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more

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  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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15. Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)

By: T. Kingfisher

4.23

Format: 445 pages, Kindle Edition

He’s a paladin of a dead god, tracking a supernatural killer across a continent. She’s a nun from a… read more

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"I somehow thought you had experience with stealth missions."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)

"Saints teeth, everyone gets younger every year I think. Except me."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)

"The larger part of power was understanding the power you had over others, even if you would rather not have had that much power in the first place."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)

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16. Calculated Risks (InCryptid, #10)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.19

Format: 433 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The tenth book in the fast-paced InCryptid urban fantasy series returns to the mishaps of the Price… read more

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"The laws of physics in this universe are fucked," she said, with far more glee than I felt appropriate under the circumstances."

-Seanan McGuire, Calculated Risks (InCryptid, #10)

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17. Backpacking Through Bedlam (InCryptid, #12)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.27

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Seanan McGuire's New York Times-bestselling and Hugo Award-nominated urban fantasy InCryptid series… read more

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18. The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

By: Sarah Ogilvie

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Murray took Dictionary work with him to the hospital when Ada was giving birth. If you look at page 2, column 1 of the first volume of the printed Dictionary, twenty-third line from the bottom, you w…"

-Sarah Ogilvie, The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

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19. And Put Away Childish Things

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Harry Bodie’s been called into the delightful fantasy world of his grandmother’s beloved children’s… read more

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"Folklore, myth, you know."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, And Put Away Childish Things

"Ah, yes, hindsight, always my weapon of choice."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, And Put Away Childish Things

"Sometimes there's a place where fiction and reality meet. Folklore, myth, you know."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, And Put Away Childish Things

"Sometimes a wardrobe is just a wardrobe. Sometimes books are just books. That's why we call it fiction."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, And Put Away Childish Things

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20. Travels with Trilobites: Adventures in the Paleozoic

By: Andy Secher

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Trilobites were some of the most successful and versatile organisms ever to exist. Among the earlie… read more

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  • history
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • palaeontology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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21. Venom Doc: The Edgiest, Darkest, Strangest Natural History Memoir Ever

By: Bryan Grieg Fry

4.08

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

Steve Irwin meets David Attenborough in this jaw-dropping account of studying the world’s most veno… read more

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  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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3.84

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Martha Wells

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