📚 Endangered Species

The red lists and the rare: what puts a species at the edge, and the programs trying to pull it back from there.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject endangered species in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Last Chance to See	Douglas Adams	1990	19
	Delhi sands flower-loving fly (Rhaphiomidas terminatus adbominalis)	Rudi Mattoni	1997	16
	The Song of the Dodo	David Quammen	1996	11
	Monster of God	David Quammen	2002	9
	Wildlife in Danger (Your Environment)	Jen Green	2003	9
	Endangered animals	John Bonnett Wexo	1984	8
	Can we save the tiger?	Martin Jenkins	2011	8
	Animals In Danger In South America	Louise Spilsbury	2013	8
	Animals in Danger in North America	Richard Spilsbury	2013	8
	Animals In Danger In Europe	Louise Spilsbury	2013	8
	Five-year status reviews of sea turtles listed under the Endangered Species Act of 1973	Andreas Mager	1985	7
	Endangered and Threatened Animals	Abbie Dunne	2016	7
	The Natural History of Unicorns	Chris Lavers	2009	6
	Endangered and extinct fish	Jennifer Boothroyd	2014	6
	The endangered species handbook	Greta Nilsson	1983	5
	The fragile species	Lewis Thomas	1992	5
	Giant pandas	Gail Gibbons	2002	5
	No Turning Back	Richard Ellis	2004	5
	Hope for animals and their world	Jane Goodall	2009	5
	100 heartbeats	Jeff Corwin	2009	5
	Rewilding the world	Caroline Fraser	2009	5
	The Woolly Monkey Mysteries	Sandra Markle	2019	5
	Brink of Extinction	Eric Braun	2020	5
	Protecting Endangered Species (Conservation Guides)	Felicity Brooks	1990	4
	Draw 50 endangered animals	Lee J. Ames	1992	4
	Black Rhino (Animals in Danger)	Rod Theodorou	2000	4
	The Book of Eels	Tom Fort	2002	4
	Tigers	Sarah L. Thomson	2004	4
	Endangered Mountain Gorillas	Bobbie Kalman	2004	4
	Gone Wild	David McLimans	2006	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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