“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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Top 11 Books For Fans of Jurassic Park

11 .) Contact by Carl Sagan

Lists It Appears On:

• Taste Dive
• Goodreads 2

“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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10 .) Dinosaur Summer by Greg Bear

Lists It Appears On:

• Prehistoric Pulp
• Kirkus

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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9 .) Dinosaur Tales by Ray Bradbury

Lists It Appears On:

• Tor
• Bookriot

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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8 .) Footprints of Thunder by James F. David

Lists It Appears On:

• Goodreads
• Kirkus

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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7 .) Terminator 2: Judgment Day by Randall Frakes

Lists It Appears On:

• Goodreads
• Goodreads 2

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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6 .) The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

Lists It Appears On:

• Taste Dive
• Off The Shelf

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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5 .) The Last Command (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #3) by Timothy Zahn

Lists It Appears On:

• Goodreads
• Goodreads 2

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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4 .) Tyrannosaur Canyon (Wyman Ford #1) by Douglas Preston

Lists It Appears On:

• Goodreads
• Goodreads 2

“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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3 .) Dinosaur Planet by Anne McCaffrey

Lists It Appears On:

• Tor
• Bookriot
• Kirkus

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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2 .) Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker

Lists It Appears On:

• Prehistoric Pulp
• Goodreads
• Goodreads 2
• Bookriot

“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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1 .) The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Lists It Appears On:

• Taste Dive
• Off The Shelf
• Prehistoric Pulp
• Tor
• Bookriot

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.

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