“What are the best books for fans of Jurassic Park?” We looked at 126 of the top books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 11 titles, all appearing on 2 or more “Best Books For Fans Of Jurassic Park” lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 100+ books, as well as the lists we used, are in alphabetical order at the bottom of the page.
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“In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who — or what — is out there?
In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future — and our own.”
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Fifty years after Professor Challenger’s discovery of the Lost World, America’s last dinosaur circus has gone bankrupt, leaving a dozen avisaurs, centrosaurs, ankylosaurs, and one large raptor abandoned. Now a daring expedition plans to do the impossible: return the Jurassic giants to the wild. Two filmmakers, a circus trainer, a journalist, and a young Peter Belzoni must find a way to take the dinosaurs across oceans, continents, rivers, jungles, up a mountain that has been isolated for seventy thousand years . . . Then, if they make it, all they will do is face the prehistoric wonders, dangers, and terrors of the Lost World.
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Dinosaur Tales is a Magnificent Collection of Famous Tales by RAY BRADBURY, One of America’s Best-Loved and Best-Selling Authors. In This Elegantly Designed and Illustrated Book, Bradbury Presents All of His Dinosaur Stories in One Volume!
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When the boundaries between past and present dissolve, flooding the earth with dinosaurs and turning cities into primeval forests, an increasingly unstable American president searches desperately for a solution to the imminent apocalypse.
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A second Terminator returns to the past to murder John Connor–destined to lead the human Resistance against the machines–while he is still a boy, but meets a formidable enemy in Connor’s protector
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A military space probe, sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms from the upper atmosphere, is knocked out of orbit and falls to Earth. Twelve miles from the crash site, an inexplicable and deadly phenomenon terrorizes the residents of a sleepy desert town in Arizona, leaving only two survivors: an elderly addict and a newborn infant. The United States government is forced to mobilize Project Wildfire, a top-secret emergency response protocol. Four of the nation’s most elite biophysicists are summoned to a clandestine underground laboratory located five stories beneath the desert and fitted with an automated atomic self-destruction mechanism for cases of irremediable contamination. Under conditions of total news blackout and the utmost urgency, the scientists race to understand and contain the crisis. But the Andromeda Strain proves different from anything they’ve ever seen—and what they don’t know could not only hurt them, but lead to unprecedented worldwide catastrophe.
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This third and final instalment spans a galaxy in flames. The fragile New Republic reels from the attacks of Grand Admiral Thrawn, who has not only rallied the remaining Imperial forces, but has driven the rebels back with an abominable new technology – clone soldiers.
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“A moon rock missing for thirty years…
Five buckets of blood-soaked sand found in a New Mexico canyon…
A scientist with ambition enough to kill…
A monk who will redeem the world…
A dark agency with a deadly mission…
The greatest scientific discovery of all time…
What fire bolt from the galactic dark shattered the Earth eons ago, and now hides in that remote cleft in the southwest U.S. known as Tyrannosaur Canyon?”
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Kai and his beautiful co-leader Varian had a simple enough mission–to catalogue fauna and flora and search for new energy sources for the Federated Sentient Planets. But what they discovered was awesome. The creatures were larger, the resources were smaller, and the rescue ship had disappeared….
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“A pair of fierce but beautiful eyes look out from the undergrowth of conifers. She is an intelligent killer…
So begins one of the most extraordinary novels you will ever read. The time is 120 million years ago, the place is the plains of prehistoric Utah, and the eyes belong to an unforgettable heroine. Her name is Raptor Red, and she is a female Raptor dinosaur.
Painting a rich and colorful picture of a lush prehistoric world, leading paleontologist Robert T. Bakker tells his story from within Raptor Red’s extraordinary mind, dramatizing his revolutionary theories in this exciting tale. From a tragic loss to the fierce struggle for survival to a daring migration to the Pacific Ocean to escape a deadly new predator, Raptor Red combines fact an fiction to capture for the first time the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors of the most magnificent, enigmatic creatures ever to walk the face of the earth.”
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What if dinosaurs never really died out, and are still living in a remote corner of the world? This is a recurring scenario in books and films, but Arthur Conan Doyle got there first with his 1912 novel, The Lost World. The hot-tempered Professor Challenger has organized an expedition to the wild jungles of South America. Together with a fellow scientist, a hunter, and a journalist, he makes his way to a volcanic plateau where they encounter creatures left over from another age. Will they be able to survive in this terrifying ancient world? Exciting, imaginative, and humorous from start to finish, The Lost World is a treat for readers of all ages.
| # | Books | Author | Lists |
| (Titles Appear On 1 List Each) | |||
| 12 | 300 | Taste Dive | |
| 13 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne | Off The Shelf |
| 14 | 2010: Odyssey Two (Space Odyssey, #2) | Arthur C. Clarke | Goodreads 2 |
| 15 | Airframe | Taste Dive | |
| 16 | Aliens: The Female War | Steve Perry | Goodreads |
| 17 | Ancestor | Scott Sigler | Kirkus |
| 18 | Back to the Future, Part 3 | Craig Shaw Gardner | Goodreads |
| 19 | Bag Of Bones | Taste Dive | |
| 20 | Black House | Taste Dive | |
| 21 | Bones of the Earth | Michael Swanwick | Prehistoric Pulp |
| 22 | Carnosaur | Harry Adam Knight | Prehistoric Pulp |
| 23 | Cell | Taste Dive | |
| 24 | Christine | Taste Dive | |
| 25 | Congo | Taste Dive | |
| 26 | Cryptozoic! | Brian W. Aldiss | Tor |
| 27 | Cujo | Taste Dive | |
| 28 | Dexter By Design | Taste Dive | |
| 29 | Different Seasons | Taste Dive | |
| 30 | Dinosaurs! | Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois | Prehistoric Pulp |
| 31 | Dreamcatcher | Taste Dive | |
| 32 | Drug of Choice | John Lange | Goodreads |
| 33 | Eaters Of The Dead | Taste Dive | |
| 34 | End of an Era | Robert J. Sawye | Prehistoric Pulp |
| 35 | Ender In Exile | Taste Dive | |
| 36 | Excavation | James Rollins | Goodreads |
| 37 | Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain | Isaac Asimov | Goodreads |
| 38 | Far-Seer (Quintaglio Ascension, #1) | Robert J. Sawyer | Goodreads |
| 39 | Firestarter | Taste Dive | |
| 40 | Flood Tide (Dirk Pitt, #14) | Clive Cussler | Goodreads |
| 41 | Four Past Midnight | Taste Dive | |
| 42 | Fragment | Warren Fahy | Kirkus |
| 43 | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | Off The Shelf |
| 44 | Gerald’s Game | Taste Dive | |
| 45 | Hannibal | Taste Dive | |
| 46 | Hannibal Rising | Taste Dive | |
| 47 | Hearts In Atlantis | Taste Dive | |
| 48 | Heir To The Empire | Taste Dive | |
| 49 | Hunger | William R. Dantz | Kirkus |
| 50 | I Am Legend | Taste Dive | |
| 51 | Ice Hunt | James Rollins | Goodreads 2 |
| 52 | If There Be Thorns | Taste Dive | |
| 53 | Insomnia | Taste Dive | |
| 54 | Iron Fist (Star Wars: X-Wing, #6) | Aaron Allston | Goodreads 2 |
| 55 | It | Taste Dive | |
| 56 | Jaws | Peter Benchley | Goodreads 2 |
| 57 | Jurassic Park III | Scott Ciencin | Goodreads |
| 58 | Justice League | Taste Dive | |
| 59 | Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern (Pern, #7) | Anne McCaffrey | Goodreads 2 |
| 60 | Needful Things | Taste Dive | |
| 61 | Next | Taste Dive | |
| 62 | Night Shift | Taste Dive | |
| 63 | On The Beach | Taste Dive | |
| 64 | On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft | Taste Dive | |
| 65 | Piercing The Darkness | Taste Dive | |
| 66 | Planet of the Apes | Pierre Boulle | Off The Shelf |
| 67 | Prey | Taste Dive | |
| 68 | Primal Waters (MEG #3) | Steve Alten | Goodreads |
| 69 | Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy | Robert J. Sawyer | Tor |
| 70 | Rainbow Six (Jack Ryan Universe, #10) | Tom Clancy | Goodreads |
| 71 | Red Dragon | Taste Dive | |
| 72 | Red Storm Rising | Taste Dive | |
| 73 | Rivers of Time | L. Sprague de Camp | Prehistric Pulp |
| 74 | Seeds Of Yesterday | Taste Dive | |
| 75 | Skeleton Crew | Taste Dive | |
| 76 | Sphere | Taste Dive | |
| 77 | Spider-Man | Taste Dive | |
| 78 | Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual | Rick Sternbach | Goodreads |
| 79 | Star Wars | Taste Dive | |
| 80 | State Of Fear | Taste Dive | |
| 81 | The Amazing Spider-Man | Taste Dive | |
| 82 | The Children Of Men | Taste Dive | |
| 83 | The Claiming Of Sleeping Beauty | Taste Dive | |
| 84 | The Dark Half | Taste Dive | |
| 85 | The Dark Tower VI: Song Of Susannah | Taste Dive | |
| 86 | The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower | Taste Dive | |
| 87 | The Dead Zone | Taste Dive | |
| 88 | The Dinosaur Lords | Victor Milán | Tor |
| 89 | The End Of Faith | Taste Dive | |
| 90 | The Exorcist | Taste Dive | |
| 91 | The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2) | Dan Simmons | Goodreads 2 |
| 92 | The Forever War | Taste Dive | |
| 93 | The Games | Ted Kosmatka | Kirkus |
| 94 | The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon | Taste Dive | |
| 95 | The Great Train Robbery | Taste Dive | |
| 96 | The Green Mile | Taste Dive | |
| 97 | The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan Universe, #4) | Tom Clancy | Goodreads 2 |
| 98 | The Hutt Gambit (Star Wars: The Han Solo Trilogy, #2) | A.C. Crispin | Goodreads 2 |
| 99 | The Krytos Trap (Star Wars: X-Wing, #3) | Michael A. Stackpole | Goodreads 2 |
| 100 | The Mist | Taste Dive | |
| 101 | The Night at the Museum | Milan Trenc | Goodreads |
| 102 | The Oath | Taste Dive | |
| 103 | The Omnivore’s Dilemma | Taste Dive | |
| 104 | The Problem Of Pain | Taste Dive | |
| 105 | The Ransom of Black Stealth One (Aerospace Systems, #1) | Dean Ing | Goodreads |
| 106 | The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2) | Thomas Harris | Goodreads 2 |
| 107 | The Star Wars Trilogy | George Lucas | Goodreads |
| 108 | The Strain | Taste Dive | |
| 109 | The Sum Of All Fears | Taste Dive | |
| 110 | The Survivors of the Chancellor (Extraordinary Voyages, #13) | Jules Verne | Goodreads 2 |
| 111 | The Talisman | Taste Dive | |
| 112 | The Thief Of Always | Taste Dive | |
| 113 | The Tommyknockers | Taste Dive | |
| 114 | The Trench (MEG, #2) | Steve Alten | Goodreads 2 |
| 115 | The Trikon Deception | Ben Bova | Goodreads |
| 116 | The Troop | Nick Cutter | Off The Shelf |
| 117 | Thinner | Taste Dive | |
| 118 | This Present Darkness | Taste Dive | |
| 119 | Thor | Taste Dive | |
| 120 | Thunder Series | James F. David | Tor |
| 121 | Timeline | Taste Dive | |
| 122 | Under the Dome | Stephen King | Off The Shelf |
| 123 | Utopia | Lincoln Child | Goodreads 2 |
| 124 | West of Eden | Harry Harrison | Prehistric Pulp |
| 125 | Wolf-Speaker | Taste Dive | |
| 126 | Zoo | James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge | Off The Shelf |
| Source | Article |
| Bookriot | RAWR: 5 AWESOME BOOKS FEATURING DINOSAURS |
| Goodreads | Books like The Lost World |
| Goodreads 2 | Books like Jurassic Park |
| Kirkus | A Jurassic World–Inspired Reading List |
| Off The Shelf | 9 Novels to Cure Your Post-Jurassic World Entertainment Slump |
| Prehistoric Pulp | Ten books to read after Jurassic World (and five to avoid) |
| Taste Dive | IF YOU LIKE |
| Tor | 6 Crazy SF Books Featuring Dinos that are Somehow NOTJurassic Park |
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