Biology books
These Biology books are recommended by Art of Problem Solving administrators and members of the AoPS Community.
Levels of reading and ability are loosely defined as follows:
- Elementary is for elementary school students up through possibly early middle school.
- Getting Started is recommended for students grades 6 to 9.
- Intermediate is recommended for students grades 9 to 12.
- Olympiad is recommended for high school students who are already studying the field at an undergraduate level.
- Collegiate is recommended for college and university students.
More advanced topics are often left with the above levels unassigned.
Contents
Books by subject
Botany
Elementary
- A Seed Grows : My First Look at a Plant's Life Cycle by Pamela Hickman, Heather Collins (Illustrator).
Intermediate
- Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identificationby Thomas J Elpel.
Ecology
Olympiad/Collegiate
- Foundations of Ecology : Classic Papers with Commentaries by Leslie A. Real (Editor), James H. Brown (Editor.
Collegiate
- A Primer of Ecology by Nicholas J. Gotelli.
- Microcosmos : Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan.
Evolution and Population Biology
Getting Started
- Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.
Genetics
Immunology
Intermediate
- How the Immune System Works by Lauren Sompayrac.
Microbiology
Molecular Biology
Zoology
Elementary
- Encyclopedia Prehistorica Dinosaurs: The Definitive Pop-Up by Robert Sabuda (Illustrator) and Matthew Reinhard (Illustrator).
Getting Started
- Frogs: Inside Their Remarkable Word by Ellin Beltz.
Intermediate
- The Sibley Field Guit to Birds of Eastern North America by David Allen Sibley and Rich Cech
General Interest
- Drosophila by Nick Sapien.
- Last Chance to Seeby Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine.
- Oxygen by Nick Lane.
- The Red Queen by Matt Ridley.
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.
