Paleontology Books

By Locality

Britain

• Hidden Landscape, The – Richard Fortey

Burgess Shale

• Crucible of Creation, The – Simon Conway-Morris
• Fossils of the Burgess Shale, The – Derek Briggs, Douglas Erwin & Frederick Collier
• Wonderful Life – Stephen J. Gould

Solnhofen

• Solnhofen - Barthel, Swinburn & Conway Morris

By Age/Stratigraphy

Vendian

• Garden of Ediacara, The – Mark McMenamin
• Proterozoic Biosphere, The – Schopf & Klein (eds)

Cambrian

• Precambrian-Cambrian Boundary, The - Cowie & Brasier
• Crucible of Creation, The – Simon Conway-Morris
• Fossils of the Burgess Shale, The – Derek Briggs, Douglas Erwin & Frederick Collier

By Taxonomic Group

Reviews

• Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution – E.N.K. Clarkson
• Vertebrate Palaeontology – Micheal Benton

Birds

• The Origin and Evolution of Birds – Alan Feduccia

Ediacaran Assemblage

• Garden of Ediacara, The – Mark McMenamin

Trilobites

• Trilobites – Riccardo Levi-Setti
• Treatise of Invertebrate Paleontology. O. Arthropoda 1 Trilobita, Revised – H.B. Whittington et al.
• Trilobite – Richard Fortey

Dinosaurs

• Dinosaurs of Darkness – Rich & Vickers-Rich
• Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs

Evolutionary Themes

• Ancestors Tale - Richard Dawkins
• Animal Evolution - Claus Nielsen
• Dawkins vs. Gould – Kim Sterelny
• Endless Forms Most Beautiful - Sean Carroll
• Ever Since Darwin - Stephen Jay Gould
• Evolution of Plants, The - Willis & McElwain
• Gaining Ground - Jennifer Clack
• Life: An Unauthorised Biography - Richard Fortey
• Major Events in the History of Life – J.W. Schopf (ed.)
• Malay Archipelago, The - Alfred Russel Wallace
• Origin of Species, On the - Charles Darwin
• Selfish Gene, The - Richard Dawkins
• Snowball Earth – Gabrielle Walker
• Theory of Evolution, The - Maynard Smith
• Water’s Edge, At the – Carl Zimmer
• What Evolution Is - Ernst Mayr

Also see books about Extinction

Paleobiology

• Paleobiology 2 – Briggs & Crowther (eds)
• Plants Invade the Land – Gensel & Edwards (eds)