Michael Crichton Books

Jurassic Park is a science fiction thriller about dinosaurs who are recreated through DNA.

Rising Sun is about a murder at the Los Angeles headquarters of a Japanese company.

Disclosure us about Tom Sanders, who works in a high tech company just before the beginning of the dot-com economic boom and is wrongly accused of sexual harassment.

The Lost World is the sequel to Jurassic Park. It takes place six years after the original novel, and involves the search for "Site B," the place where the dinosaurs for Jurassic Park were hatched.

Airframe is about Casey Singleton, a quality assurance vice-president at the fictional aerospace manufacturer Norton Aircraft, who is investigating an accident that left three passengers dead and fifty-six injured.

Timeline is about a team of historians who travels to the Middle Ages to retrieve a fellow historian who is trapped there.

Prey follows a software designer as he is called in to consult on an emergency situation regarding experimental nano-robots. It is a fast paced, scientific thriller

State of Fear is about environmentalists -- some good, some bad. It was controversial because it pushed Crichton's view that global warming is not caused by humans.

In Next, Crichton brings up some provocative dilemmas dealing with the topic of genetic testing and ownership.

Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton was found as a manuscript among his belongings after his untimely death. It is a pirate yarn in the tradition of Treasure Island. While not "typical Crichton," it is a good story that shows his skill as a writer.

Part of the Micro manuscript was found after Michael Crichton died in 2008. Richard Preston completed this science thriller about a group of graduate students trapped in the Hawaiian rain forest after coming to Hawaii to work for a mysterious Biotech company.