Allmon, W. D., 2009, Evolution & Creationism: a Very Short Guide, 2nd edition, Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, NY, 128 pp.
Benton, M. J., 2008, The History of Life: a Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 170 pp.
Fenton, C. L., & M. A. Fenton, 1958, The Fossil Book: A Record of Prehistoric Life, Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 482 pp. (A well-illustrated classic.)
Fortey, R. A., 1998, Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 346 pp.
Knoll, A. H., 2003, Life On a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 277 pp.
Lockley, M.G., 1991, Tracking Dinosaurs: a New Look at an Ancient World, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 238 pp.
Nudds, J.R., & P.A. Selden, 2008, Fossil Ecosystems of North America: a Guide to the Sites and their Extraordinary Biotas, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 288 pp.
Prothero, D.R., 2006, After the Dinosaurs: the Age of Mammals, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 362 pp.
Sampson, S. D., 2011, Dinosaur Odyssey: Fossil Threads in the Web of Life, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 352 pp.
Shubin, N., 2009, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body, Vintage Books, NY, 256 pp.
Switek, B., 2010, Written In Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place In Nature, Bellevue Literary Press, New York, 320 pp.
Thomson, K. S., 2005, Fossils: a Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 147 pp.
Guides to Collecting and Identifying Fossils
Arduini, P., G. Teruzzi, & S. S. Horenstein, 1986, Simon & Schuster's Guide to Fossils, Simon and Schuster, New York, 317 pp.
Garcia, F. A., & D. S. Miller, 1998, Discovering Fossils: How To Find and Identify Remains of the Prehistoric Past, Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA, 212 pp.
Lichter, G., 1993, Fossil Collector's Handbook: Finding, Identifying, Preparing, Displaying, Sterling Publishing Company, New York, 160 pp.
Macdonald, J. R., 1983, The Fossil Collector's Handbook: a Paleontology Field Guide, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 193 pp.
Murray, M., 1967, Hunting for Fossils: a Guide to Finding and Collecting Fossils in All Fifty States, Macmillan Company, Toronto, Canada, 348 pp.
Nudds, J. R., & P. A. Selden, 2008, Fossil Ecosystems of North America: a Guide to the Sites and their Extraordinary Biotas, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 288 pp.
Parker, S., 1990, The Practical Paleontologist: a Step-By-Step Guide To Finding, Studying, and Interpreting Fossils, Simon and Schuster, New York, 159 pp.
Parker, S., 2007, Fossil Hunting: an Expert Guide to Finding and Identifying Fossils and Creating a Collection, Southwater, London, 96 pp.
Ransom, J. E., 1964, Fossils In America: their Nature, Origin, Identification and Classification and a Range Guide To Collecting Sites, Harper and Row, New York, 402 pp.
Thompson, I., 1982, The Audubon Society Field Guide To North American Fossils, Knopf, New York, 846 pp.
Walker, C., D. Ward, & C. Keates, 2009, Fossils, Dorling Kindersley (Smithsonian Handbooks), New York, 320 pp.
Books, Articles, and Websites on Fossils of Specific Areas of the Southwest
Multistate areas
Foster, J., 2007, Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 416 pp.
Lockley, M. G., & A. P. Hunt, 1995, Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of the Western United States, Columbia University Press, New York, 338 pp.
Ratkevich, R. P., 1976, Dinosaurs of the Southwest, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 115 pp.
Sadler, C., 2007, Life in Stone: Fossils of the Colorado Plateau, Grand Canyon Association, Grand Canyon, AZ, 72 pp.
Tidwell, W. D. 1998, Common Fossil Plants of Western North America, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC, 299 pp.
Arizona
Fossils, Grand Canyon National Park, National Park Service.
Fossils, Petrified Forest National Park, National Park Service.
Heckert, A. B. & S. G. Lucas, eds., 2005, Vertebrate paleontology in Arizona, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 29: 210 pp. [Technical]
Ratkevich, R. P., 1979, Field Guide to Arizona Fossils, Dinograph Southwest, Alamogordo, NM, 114 pp.
Thayer, D., 2009, An Introduction to Grand Canyon Fossils, Grand Canyon Association, Grand Canyon, AZ, 64 pI.
Timmons, M. J., & C. A. Manduca, eds., 2012, Grand Canyon geology: Two billion years of Earth’s history, Geological Society of America Special Paper 489, 156 pp. [Technical]
Grande, L., 2013, The Lost World of Fossil Lake: Snapshots from Deep Time, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 432 pp.
Jenkins, J. T., & J. L. Jenkins, 1993, Colorado’s dinosaurs, Colorado Geological Survey Special Publication 35, 74 pp.
Johnson, K. R., & R. G. Raynolds, 2006, Ancient Denvers: Scenes from the Past 300 Million Years of the Colorado Front Range, Denver Museum of Science and Nature, Denver, CO, 32 pp.
Leopold, E. B., & H. W. Meyer, 2012, Saved in Time: the Fight to Establish Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 139 pp.
Lockley, M. G., 2001, A Field Guide to Dinosaur Ridge, 3rd edition, Friends of Dinosaur Ridge/University of Colorado at Denver Dinosaur Tracker Research Group, Denver, CO, 32 pp.
Lockley, M., 2003, Fossil Footprints of the Dinosaur Ridge and Fossil Trace Areas, 2nd edition, Friends of Dinosaur Ridge/University of Colorado at Denver Dinosaur Tracker Research Group, Denver, CO, 66 pp.
Meyer, H. W., 2003, Fossils of Florissant, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC, 272 pp.
Milito, S., 2010, A survey of fossils and geology of Red Rock Canyon Open Space, Colorado Springs, Colorado, The Mountain Geologist, 47(1): 1–14.
Wright, J. L., 2004, Walking with dinosaurs (and other extinct animals) along Colorado's Front Range: a field trip to Paleozoic and Mesozoic terrestrial localities, GSA Field Guides, 5: 219–234. [Technical]
New Mexico
Colbert, E. H., 1995, The Little Dinosaurs of Ghost Ranch, Columbia University Press, New York, 250 pp.
Kues, B., 2008, The Paleontology of New Mexico, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 446 pp.
Lucas, S. G., & A. B. Heckert, eds., 2000, Dinosaurs of New Mexico, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 17, 230 pp. [technical]
Lucas, S. G., G. S. Morgan, & K. E. Ziegler, eds., 2005, New Mexico's ice ages, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 28, 280 pp. [technical]
Utah
Barnes, F. A. 1997, Canyon Country Dinosaur Tracks and Trackers, Canyon Country Publications, Moab, UT, 176 pp.
Gillette, D. D., ed., 1999, Vertebrate paleontology in Utah, Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 99-1, 554 pp. [Technical]
Harris, J. D., & A. R. C. Milner, 2015, Tracks in Deep Time: the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 99 pp.
Mesozoic Fossils, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, National Park Service.
Robison, R. A., L. E. Babcock, & V. G. Gunther, 2015, Exceptional Cambrian fossils from Utah: a window into the age of trilobites, Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 15-1, 97 pp.
Titus, A. L., & M. A. Loewen, 2013, At the Top of the Grand Staircase: the Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 634 pp. [technical]
Wilson, J. R., 1995, A collector's guide to rock, mineral and fossil localities in Utah, Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 95-4, 148 pp.
