John Bankston, Francis Crick and James D. Watson; Francis Crick and James Watson: Pioneers in DNA Research (Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc., 2002) ISBN1-58415-122-6.
Bill Bryson; A Short History of Nearly Everything (Broadway Books, 2003) ISBN0-7679-0817-1.
Soraya De Chadarevian; Designs For Life: Molecular Biology After World War II, CUP 2002, 444 pp; ISBN0-521-57078-6.
Roderick Braithwaite. Strikingly Alive: The History of the Mill Hill School Foundation 1807–2007; published Phillimore & Co. ISBN978-1-86077-330-3
S. Chomet (Ed.), D.N.A. Genesis of a Discovery, 1994, Newman- Hemisphere Press, London
Dickerson, Richard E.; Present at the Flood: How Structural Molecular Biology Came About, Sinauer, 2005; ISBN0-87893-168-6.
Edward Edelson,"Francis Crick And James Watson: And the Building Blocks of Life, Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN0-19-513971-2.
John Finch; A Nobel Fellow On Every Floor, Medical Research Council 2008, 381 pp, ISBN978-1-84046-940-0.
Hager, Thomas; Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling, Simon & Schuster 1995; ISBN0-684-80909-5
Graeme Hunter; Light Is A Messenger, the life and science of William Lawrence Bragg (Oxford University Press, 2004) ISBN0-19-852921-X.
Horace Freeland Judson, The Eighth Day of Creation. Makers of the Revolution in Biology; Penguin Books 1995, first published by Jonathan Cape, 1977; ISBN0-14-017800-7.
Torsten Krude (Ed.); DNA Changing Science and Society (ISBN0-521-82378-1) CUP 2003. (The Darwin Lectures for 2003, including one by Sir Aaron Klug on Rosalind Franklin's involvement in the determination of the structure of DNA).
Robert Olby; The Path to The Double Helix: Discovery of DNA; first published in October 1974 by MacMillan, with foreword by Francis Crick; ISBN0-486-68117-3; revised in 1994, with a 9-page postscript.
Robert Olby; Oxford National Dictionary article: Crick, Francis Harry Compton (1916–2004). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, January 2008.
Anne Sayre. 1975. Rosalind Franklin and DNA. New York: W.W. Norton and Company. ISBN0-393-32044-8.
James D. Watson; The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, Atheneum, 1980, ISBN0-689-70602-2 (first published in 1968) is a very readable firsthand account of the research by Crick and Watson. The book also formed the basis of the award-winning television dramatization Life Story by BBC Horizon (also broadcast as Race for the Double Helix). [The Norton Critical Edition, which was published in 1980, edited by Gunther S. Stent: ISBN0-393-01245-X]
James D. Watson; Avoid Boring People and Other Lessons from a Life in Science, New York: Random House. ISBN978-0-375-41284-4.
