The Lost World
by Michael Crichton
★ Most-read book of 1995 · #1 on Best Books of 1995
Michael Crichton returns to the world of his 1990 hit Jurassic Park with this 1995 techno-thriller, his tenth novel under his own name. Published by Knopf, it was later bundled with its predecessor in a single combined edition.
Best for: Readers who loved Jurassic Park and want its techno-thriller sequel
The Lost World is #1 on BookWard's Best Books of 1995, out of 28 1995 books that cleared our data bar.
What The Lost World is about
Ian Malcolm, the chaos theorist who lived through the disaster at Jurassic Park, is drawn back into the story when a young paleontologist named Richard Levine challenges him. Levine believes InGen kept a secret production site for its dinosaurs, and that somewhere out there lies a lost world where the animals live on, a place that could teach us what extinction really is.
When Levine slips off to Isla Sorna, one of the five islands known as Las Cinco Muertes, Malcolm follows with Doc Thorne, Eddie Carr and Sarah Harding in specially equipped RV trailers. Two teenagers have stowed away in one of them. A rival company, Biosyn, is also on the island, and its team under Lewis Dodgson has come to steal eggs. Crichton's sequel, the only one he ever wrote, is a suspenseful techno-thriller about corporate greed, scientific overreach and the limits of human control over nature.
The Lost World on the Best Books of 1995
The Lost World came out in 1995. Of the 28 books first published in 1995 that met BookWard's data bar, it ranks #1 on our Best Books of 1995 list.
Why it made the list: 576 readers have shelved it on Open Library; readers rate it 4.4 out of 5 (34 ratings); 29 are reading it right now. The list ranks each year’s books on how many readers have picked them up, how highly readers rate them, and how many are reading them right now.
It earns Most-read of 1995 and reader favorite.
Nearby on the 1995 list
- Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman, #2
- Northern Lights Philip Pullman, #3
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The numbers behind it
- Readers: 464 want to read it, 29 are reading it now and 83 have read it, according to Open Library.
- Ratings: 4.4 out of 5 from 34 Open Library ratings.
| Signal | This book (0 to 100) | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Reach | 89 | 55% |
| Reader love | 100 | 25% |
| Being read right now | 82 | 20% |
Questions about The Lost World
When was The Lost World published?
The Lost World by Michael Crichton was first published in 1995.
Was The Lost World one of the best books of 1995?
The Lost World is #1 on BookWard's Best Books of 1995, out of 28 1995 books that cleared our data bar. 576 readers have shelved it on Open Library; readers rate it 4.4 out of 5 (34 ratings); 29 are reading it right now.
Why is The Lost World on the Best Books of 1995 list?
576 readers have shelved it on Open Library; readers rate it 4.4 out of 5 (34 ratings); 29 are reading it right now.
More of the best books of 1995
- Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman, #2
- Northern Lights Philip Pullman, #3
- Mindhunter John E. Douglas, #4
- Rose Madder Stephen King, #5
- Wicked Gregory Maguire, #6
- The Demon-Haunted World Carl Sagan, #7
See the full Best Books of 1995, the Top 100, or new books on Rising.
How we know
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