What should I read after Jurassic Park?

If you liked Jurassic Park, try Killing Floor (Lee Child), Angels & Demons (Dan Brown) and The Great Hunt (Robert Jordan).

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton: what it’s like, who it’s for

Name: Jurassic Park
Author: Michael Crichton
ISBN: 9780345538987

Mystery, thriller & crime Science fiction Young adult History

A billionaire builds a private zoo of extinct animals and flies experts in to approve it. The experts keep finding reasons to say no.

Feels like dread, curiosity and awe. About nature, power and adventure.

A page from the book

Every fence you build is a hypothesis about what cannot get through.

Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.

Excerpt from Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton, Ballantine Books 1990. Quoted for discovery. Source Rights & removals

Michael Crichton.Crichton trained as a physician at Harvard Medical School, publishing pulp thrillers under the pen names John Lange and Michael Douglas to pay his tuition.

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More by Michael Crichton

The Lost World

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A rich man's expedition to a hidden island turns into a firsthand argument about dinosaurs, media, and whether humans are as smart as we think.

Disclosure

Michael Crichton, 1994

A Seattle tech manager’s merger week turns personal when an accusation makes the office a maze of power, sex and plausible deniability.

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Questions readers ask

What is Jurassic Park like?: Feels like dread, curiosity and awe. About nature, power and adventure.
What should I read after Jurassic Park?: If you liked Jurassic Park, try Killing Floor (Lee Child), Angels & Demons (Dan Brown) and The Great Hunt (Robert Jordan).

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