- The Theory of Island Biogeography — 1967
- A Primer of Population Biology — 1971
- The Insect Societies — 1971
- Genes, Mind, and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process — 1981
- Promethean Fire: Reflections on the Origin of Mind — 1983
- Biophilia — 1984
- Success and Dominance in Ecosystems: The Case of the Social Insects — 1990
- The Biophilia Hypothesis — 1993
- Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration — 1994
- Naturalist — 1994
- In Search of Nature — 1996
- Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge — 1998
- The Future of Life — 2002
- Pheidole in the New World: A Dominant, Hyperdiverse Ant Genus — 2003
- From So Simple a Beginning: The Four Great Books of Charles Darwin — 2006
- The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth — 2006
- The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies — 2009
- Anthill: A Novel — 2010
- Kingdom of Ants: José Celestino Mutis and the Dawn of Natural History in the New World — 2010
- The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct — 2011
- The Social Conquest of Earth — 2012
- Letters to a Young Scientist — 2013
- A Window on Eternity: A Biologist's Walk Through Gorongosa National Park — 2014
- The Meaning of Human Existence — 2014
- Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life — 2016
- The Origins of Creativity — 2017
- Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies — 2019
- Tales from the Ant World — 2020
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