The Greatest British Books of All Time on Evolution

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
294 The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1895 British English
728 Erewhon Samuel Butler 1872 British English
917 The Day of the Triffids John Wyndham 1951 British English
1004 2001 Arthur C. Clarke 1968 British English
1345 The Naked Ape Desmond Morris 1967 British English
2351 The Inheritors William Golding 1955 British English
2478 Quatermass And The Pit Nigel Kneale 1959 British English
4310 Vril Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1871 British English
4812 Gaia James Lovelock 1979 British English
5190 The Professor Challenger Stories Arthur Conan Doyle 1912 British English
5663 The Evolution Man Or How I Ate My Father Roy Lewis 1960 British English
5960 The Time Ships Stephen Baxter 1995 British English
6005 Geological Evidences Of The Antiquity Of Man Charles Lyell 1863 British English
6250 Great Apes Will Self 1997 British English
9020 Climbing Mount Improbable Richard Dawkins 1996 British English
9091 Pluto's Republic Peter B. Medawar 1982 British English
9904 Trilobite! Richard Fortey 2000 British English
12195 Earth Richard Fortey 2004 British English
12326 The Ant And The Peacock Helena Cronin 1991 British English
12326 Huxley Adrian Desmond 1997 British English
12326 Life Richard Fortey 1997 British English
14520 The Rational Optimist Matt Ridley 2010 British English
14680 The Vital Question Nick Lane 2015 British English
14939 The City And The Stars Arthur C. Clarke 1956 British English
14985 Hothouse Brian Aldiss 1962 British English
15916 First Principles Herbert Spencer 1862 British English
15916 The Expression Of The Emotions In Man And Animals Charles Darwin 1872 British English
17163 Hopeful Monsters Nicholas Mosley 1990 British English
17163 The Language Of The Genes Steve Jones 1993 British English
17163 Otherlands Thomas Halliday 2022 British English
17163 Evolution Stephen Baxter 2003 British English
17163 Children Of Ruin Adrian Tchaikovsky 2019 British English
17163 Helliconia Winter Brian Aldiss 1985 British English
17163 Helliconia Spring Brian Aldiss 1982 British English
17163 The Fabric Of Reality David Deutsch 1997 British English
17163 Life On The Edge Johnjoe McFadden, Jim Al-Khalili 2015 British English
17163 Nature Via Nurture Matt Ridley 2003 British English
17163 Vacuum Diagrams Stephen Baxter 1997 British English
17163 Life Martha Holmes, Michael Gunton 2009 British English
17163 Human Nature After Darwin Janet Radcliffe Richards 2000 British English
17163 The Darwin Wars Andrew Brown 1999 British English
17163 The Anthropic Cosmological Principle John D. Barrow, Frank J. Tipler 1986 British English
17163 The Blind Watchmaker Richard Dawkins 1986 British English