1976 book on evolution by the ethologist Richard Dawkins, in which the author builds upon the principal theory of George C. Williams’s Adaptation and Natural Selection . Dawkins uses the term “selfish gene” as a way of expressing the gene-centred view of evolution , popularising ideas developed during the 1960s by W. D. Hamilton and others
1969 techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton, his first novel under his own name and his sixth novel overall
Autobiography of Dorothy Day, published in 1952 by Harper & Brothers
Work of detective fiction by Edmund Crispin, featuring his recurrent sleuth, Gervase Fen, an Oxford professor of English Language and Literature.
Contemporary fantasy novel by John Crowley, published in 1981. It won the World Fantasy Award in 1982.
