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.

Books by subject

Botany

Intermediate

• Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identificationby Thomas J Elpel.

Evolution and Population Biology

Getting Started

• Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.

Immunology

Intermediate

• How the Immune System Works by Lauren Sompayrac.

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.