The Grid The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
Gretchen Bakke
2016 · 2017 edition
384 pages
The most popular energy books
Energy books explain how the world is powered. Oil, gas, nuclear, wind, solar and the grid that ties them together are covered, along with the hard choices of moving away from fossil fuels. Read them for the science, the economics and the politics of keeping the lights on.
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Full Body Burden
Kristen Iversen
Published 2012
400 pages
Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse
Paul Carter
Published 2005
204 pages
Unf*ck Your Habitat
Rachel Hoffman, Emily Woo Zeller
Published 2016
256 pages
Private Empire ExxonMobil and American Power
Steve Coll
Published 2012
685 pages
Energy in World History
Vaclav Smil
1994 · 2020 edition
300 pages
Chernobyl 01:23:40 The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster
Andrew Leatherbarrow
Published 2016
247 pages
Lost in Math How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
Sabine Hossenfelder
2018 · 2020 edition
304 pages
The Big Rich The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes
Bryan Burrough
Published 2009
466 pages
Losing Earth The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change
Nathaniel Rich
2019 · 2020 edition
256 pages
Unstoppable
Bill Nye
Published 2015
352 pages
The Long Emergency
James Howard Kunstler, Hengyqi Guo
2005 · 2006 edition
336 pages
Amity and Prosperity
Eliza Griswold
Published 2018
336 pages
The Looting Machine Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
Tom Burgis, Grover Gardner narrator
Published 2015
352 pages
The Frackers
Gregory Zuckerman
Published 2013
416 pages
Fully Automated Luxury Communism A Manifesto
Aaron Bastani
Published 2019
278 pages
Empires of Light Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
Jill Jonnes
Published 2003
416 pages
American Theocracy
Kevin Phillips
2006 · 2007 edition
480 pages
The Arabs A History
Eugene L. Rogan
2009 · 2018 edition
718 pages
Rigged The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, from Wall Street to Dubai
Ben Mezrich
Published 2007
294 pages
House
Tracy Kidder
1985 · 1986 edition
341 pages
The New Climate War The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
Michael E. Mann
Published 2021
368 pages
Coal A Human History
Barbara Freese
2003 · 2005 edition
308 pages
Buzz The Nature and Necessity of Bees
Thor Hanson
Published 2018
304 pages