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
2349 The Inheritors William Golding 1955 British English
2476 Quatermass And The Pit Nigel Kneale 1959 British English
4309 Vril Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1871 British English
4810 Gaia James Lovelock 1979 British English
5187 The Professor Challenger Stories Arthur Conan Doyle 1912 British English
5660 The Evolution Man Or How I Ate My Father Roy Lewis 1960 British English
5956 The Time Ships Stephen Baxter 1995 British English
6002 Geological Evidences Of The Antiquity Of Man Charles Lyell 1863 British English
6247 Great Apes Will Self 1997 British English
9016 Climbing Mount Improbable Richard Dawkins 1996 British English
9086 Pluto's Republic Peter B. Medawar 1982 British English
9900 Trilobite! Richard Fortey 2000 British English
12194 Earth Richard Fortey 2004 British English
12324 The Ant And The Peacock Helena Cronin 1991 British English
12324 Huxley Adrian Desmond 1997 British English
12324 Life Richard Fortey 1997 British English
14519 The Rational Optimist Matt Ridley 2010 British English
14679 The Vital Question Nick Lane 2015 British English
14936 The City And The Stars Arthur C. Clarke 1956 British English
14983 Hothouse Brian Aldiss 1962 British English
15897 First Principles Herbert Spencer 1862 British English
15897 The Expression Of The Emotions In Man And Animals Charles Darwin 1872 British English
17117 Hopeful Monsters Nicholas Mosley 1990 British English
17117 The Language Of The Genes Steve Jones 1993 British English
17117 Otherlands Thomas Halliday 2022 British English
17117 Evolution Stephen Baxter 2003 British English
17117 Children Of Ruin Adrian Tchaikovsky 2019 British English
17117 Helliconia Winter Brian Aldiss 1985 British English
17117 Helliconia Spring Brian Aldiss 1982 British English
17117 The Fabric Of Reality David Deutsch 1997 British English
17117 Life On The Edge Johnjoe McFadden, Jim Al-Khalili 2015 British English
17117 Nature Via Nurture Matt Ridley 2003 British English
17117 Vacuum Diagrams Stephen Baxter 1997 British English
17117 Life Martha Holmes, Michael Gunton 2009 British English
17117 Human Nature After Darwin Janet Radcliffe Richards 2000 British English
17117 The Darwin Wars Andrew Brown 1999 British English
17117 The Anthropic Cosmological Principle John D. Barrow, Frank J. Tipler 1986 British English
17117 The Blind Watchmaker Richard Dawkins 1986 British English