Good story over on the NMNH blog.  Many good books listed.  Here’s just a few highlights:

• Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth, by Richard Fortey
• Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body, by Neil Shubin
• Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, by Stephen Jay Gould
• Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution, by Richard Fortey
• Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway: An Epoch Tale of a Scientist and an Artist on the Ultimate 5,000-Mile Paleo Road Trip, by Kirk Johnson (Author and the Sant Director of the National Museum of Natural History) and Ray Troll (Illustrator)
• My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and our Favorite Dinosaurs, by Brian Switek
• The Complete Dinosaur, by Michael K. Brett-Surman (Editor), Thomas R. Holtz (Editor), James O. Farlow (Editor), Bob Walters (Illustrator)

If you’ve got some time over the holidays (or the upcoming cold months), grab some good reading!