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James Lovelock, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (Oxford University Press, 1979). A popular science classic—Lovelock’s poetic description of his dawning realization of Gaia.
Earth System Sciences Committee, NASA Advisory Council, Earth System Science Overview: A Program for Global Change (NASA, 1986). A founding document for a new scientific field.
Martin Redfern, The Earth: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2003). A succinct introduction to the workings of the inner Earth.

Lee R. Kump, James F. Kasting, and Robert G. Crane, The Earth System, 3rd edition (Prentice Hall, 2010). An introductory textbook to the field, nicely rooted in a systems thinking approach.
Michael C. Jacobson, Robert J. Charlson, Henning Rodhe, and Gordon H. Orians (eds), Earth System Science: From Biogeochemical Cycles to Global Change (Academic Press, 2000). A more advanced textbook covering key aspects of Earth system science.
William H. Schlesinger and Emily S. Bernhardt, Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change, 3rd edition (Academic Press, 2013). A more advanced textbook focused on biogeochemical cycling.

James Lovelock, The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth (Oxford University Press, 1988). My favourite popular science book. Lovelock transforms Gaia into a theory using simple models to explore self-regulation, and laying out the history of our planet as a system.

Tim Lenton and Andrew Watson, Revolutions that Made the Earth (Oxford University Press, 2011). Our synthesis of the pivotal events that created a world in which humans could evolve.
Charles H. Langmuir and Wally Broecker, How to Build a Habitable Planet: The Story of Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind (Princeton University Press, 2012). Long but rewarding—a comprehensive introduction to the Earth in a universal context.
Paul G. Falkowski, Life’s Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable (Princeton University Press, 2015). An insightful and personal introduction to the organisms that really run this planet.
Donald E. Canfield, Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History (Princeton University Press, 2014). The pivotal gas for complex life gets a welcome biography from one of the leaders of the field.

Jan Zalasiewicz, The Earth After Us (Oxford University Press, 2008). Both a neat introduction to geology and a long-term view of our legacy in the rock record.
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years (Vintage, 1998). A classic exposition of the differing development of societies over the Holocene.
Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive (Penguin, 2011). A provocative look at why past civilizations came to grief and what we can learn from their mistakes.

John Houghton, Global Warming: The Complete Briefing, 5th edition (Cambridge University Press, 2015). The definitive summary of the complexities of climate change.
James R. Fleming, Historical Perspectives on Climate Change (Oxford University Press, 1998). A myth-busting series of essays on the history of thinking about climate change.
Kendal McGuffie and Ann Henderson-Sellers, The Climate Modelling Primer, 4th edition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014). Makes the fiendishly complex business of climate modelling accessible.
David Archer, The Long Thaw: How Humans are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate (Princeton University Press, 2010). The long view on the consequences of fossil fuel burning.

Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III, The Limits to Growth (Universe Books, 1972). A bible for the environmental movement but a heresy for many economists—either way, the systems modelling approach taken was groundbreaking.
David J. C. Mackay, Sustainable Energy—Without the Hot Air (UIT, 2009). A quantitative examination of what it will take to power our civilizations sustainably.
Julian M. Allwood and Jonathan M. Cullen, Sustainable Materials—With Both Eyes Open (UIT, 2012). A careful look at how we can be more efficient with key materials.

James Kasting, How to Find a Habitable Planet (Princeton University Press, 2012). The maestro of modelling habitable zones offers the perfect manual for the would-be planet finder.
David C. Catling, Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2013). A sparkling introduction to the prospects for life elsewhere.