Prehistoric Life
1. 
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
by:
Steve Brusatte
4.21 avg rating — 38,332 ratings 
3. 
The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers, and the Marvelous Subterranean World Beneath our Feet 4.14 avg rating — 144 ratings
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The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions
by:
Peter Brannen
4.29 avg rating — 5,875 ratings 5. 
Once & Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals
by:
Sharon Levy
3.97 avg rating — 210 ratings 
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Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It
by:
Gabrielle Walker
3.99 avg rating — 415 ratings 9. 
The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs
by:
David Hone
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 762 ratings 9. 
Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology 4.39 avg rating — 2,423 ratings
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Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
by:
Britt Wray
3.93 avg rating — 290 ratings 12. 
The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction
by:
Pat Shipman
3.71 avg rating — 589 ratings 
14. 
Dinosaurs in the Attic: An Excursion into the American Museum of Natural History
by:
Douglas Preston
4.14 avg rating — 1,046 ratings 15. 
End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals 3.97 avg rating — 544 ratings
16. 
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by:
Neil Shubin
4.04 avg rating — 28,102 ratings 17. 
At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea
by:
Carl Zimmer
4.08 avg rating — 2,095 ratings 18. 
The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era--A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos
by:
Brian Swimme
4.27 avg rating — 250 ratings 18. 
Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils
by:
Lydia Pyne
3.55 avg rating — 592 ratings 
21. 
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
by:
Nick Lane
4.18 avg rating — 5,766 ratings 21. 
The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History
by:
David Beerling
4.05 avg rating — 636 ratings 24. 
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
by:
Shelley Emling
3.84 avg rating — 1,339 ratings 24. 
The Great Dinosaur Debate: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction
by:
Robert T. Bakker
4.23 avg rating — 2,232 ratings 
29. 
The How and Why Wonder Book of Prehistoric Mammals (How and Why Wonder Books 5033)
by:
Martin L. Keen
3.79 avg rating — 38 ratings 29. 
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
by:
Christopher Ryan
3.98 avg rating — 31,323 ratings 31. 
Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages 4.53 avg rating — 266 ratings
33. 
The Monkey's Voyage: How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life
by:
Alan de Queiroz
3.78 avg rating — 324 ratings 33. 
Giants of the Lost World: Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Monsters of South America 3.84 avg rating — 98 ratings
35. 
The Griffin and the Dinosaur: How Adrienne Mayor Discovered a Fascinating Link Between Myth and Science
by:
Marc Aronson
4.02 avg rating — 229 ratings 37. 
The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey: Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans 3.94 avg rating — 49 ratings
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The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
by:
Tim Flannery
4.09 avg rating — 922 ratings 40. 
Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America
by:
Paul S. Martin
3.90 avg rating — 209 ratings 40. 
Braindance: New Discoveries about Human Origins and Brain Evolution
by:
Dean Falk
4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings 42. 
Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
by:
Robert M. Hazen
3.98 avg rating — 591 ratings 
45. 
Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory
by:
Edward J. Larson
3.93 avg rating — 647 ratings 
48. 
Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History's Most Iconic Extinct Creatures
by:
Ben Mezrich
3.50 avg rating — 2,860 ratings 49. 
The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived
by:
Clive Finlayson
3.88 avg rating — 970 ratings 50. 
Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany: A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
51. 
The Great Paleolithic War: How Science Forged an Understanding of America's Ice Age Past
by:
David J. Meltzer
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 
54. 
Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time 3.90 avg rating — 457 ratings
56. 
An Ice Age Mystery: Unearthing the Secrets of the Old Vero Site
by:
Rody L. Johnson
3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings 57. 
Florida's People During the Last Ice Age
by:
Barbara A. Purdy
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 58. 
Water from Stone: Archaeology and Conservation at Florida's Springs (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story 3.94 avg rating — 1,490 ratings
63. 
The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body
by:
Steven Mithen
3.89 avg rating — 653 ratings 64. 
Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins
by:
Carl Zimmer
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 227 ratings 
66. 
House of Lost Worlds: Dinosaurs, Dynasties, and the Story of Life on Earth
by:
Richard Conniff
3.94 avg rating — 71 ratings 67. 
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
by:
Lisa Randall
3.68 avg rating — 3,477 ratings 
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Bipoints Before Clovis: Trans-Oceanic Migrations and Settlement of Prehistoric Americas
by:
Wm Jack Hranicky
3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings