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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.15 — 78,670 ratings — published 2014
Last Chance to See (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.32 — 25,983 ratings — published 1990
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,626 ratings — published 1996
A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.23 — 735 ratings — published 2001
Gone: A Search for What Remains of the World’s Extinct Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.38 — 388 ratings — published 2021
Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.95 — 277 ratings — published 2013
Dodo: A Brief History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.93 — 87 ratings — published 2002
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,022 ratings — published 2021
Migrations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.12 — 97,996 ratings — published 2020
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,507 ratings — published 2021
The Ends of the World (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.29 — 6,036 ratings — published 2017
The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.25 — 237 ratings — published 2016
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,983 ratings — published 2013
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.22 — 451 ratings — published 2000
Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,409 ratings — published 2009
Extinct Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.47 — 53 ratings — published 1988
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.46 — 34,544 ratings — published 2022
The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,353 ratings — published 2022
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,582 ratings — published 2021
Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,887 ratings — published 2021
Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.04 — 82 ratings — published
Aviary Wonders Inc. Spring Catalog and Instruction Manual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.95 — 525 ratings — published 2014
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,535 ratings — published 2003
Can We Save the Tiger? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,236 ratings — published 2011
Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.12 — 212 ratings — published
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,716 ratings — published 2021
Venomous Lumpsucker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.81 — 6,510 ratings — published 2022
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,590 ratings — published 2022
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,924 ratings — published 2022
The Lost World (Jurassic Park, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.88 — 178,718 ratings — published 1995
They Came from the Bronx (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.88 — 48 ratings — published 2001
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,085 ratings — published 2012
A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.87 — 363 ratings — published 2014
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,514 ratings — published 2013
The Day the World Ended (Extinction, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.94 — 265 ratings — published 2011
Generation A (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.52 — 7,697 ratings — published 2009
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,230 ratings — published 2007
The Ghost with Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking, and the Search for Lost Species (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.30 — 357 ratings — published 2002
The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.88 — 971 ratings — published 2009
Who Killed the Great Auk? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.52 — 23 ratings — published 2001
Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.52 — 607 ratings — published 2009
Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.88 — 468 ratings — published 2005
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.71 — 295 ratings — published 2025
Extinction Crisis (Extinction, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,837 ratings — published 2018
The Last Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.38 — 6,814 ratings — published 1826
Thylacine : The Tragic Tale of the Tasmanian Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.94 — 188 ratings — published 2003
Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.68 — 186 ratings — published 2016
The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.37 — 302 ratings — published
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.37 — 7,578 ratings — published 2022
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.21 — 39,672 ratings — published 2018
“We must allow ourselves to think, we must dare to think, even though we fail. It is in the nature of things that we always fail, because we suddenly find it impossible to order our thoughts, because the process of thinking requires us to consider every thought there is, every possible thought. Fundamentally we have always failed, like all the others, whoever they were, even the greatest minds. At some point, they suddenly failed and their system collapsed, as is proved by their writings, which we admire because they venture farthest into failure. To think is to fail, I thought.”
― Extinction
― Extinction
“Of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty million are now extinct. We don't know why. Some by wanton extinction, some through natural catastrophe, some destroyed by meteorites and asteroids. In the light of these mass extinctions it really does seem unreasonable to suppose that Homo sapiens should be exempt. Our species will have been one of the shortest-lived of all, a mere blink, you may say, in the eye of time.”
― The Children of Men
― The Children of Men
