Start with high-confidence physical anthropology books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
First Steps
Jeremy DeSilva
Humankind
Rutger Bregman, Erica Moore
The Intimate Animal
Justin R. Garcia PhD PhD, Matt Godfrey
Eve
Cat Bohannon
Neanderthal Man
Svante Pääbo
Gods of the Upper Air
Charles King
Still Life With Bones
Alexa Hagerty
The Arrogant Ape
Christine Webb, Christine E. Webb
Lost Worlds
Patrick Wyman
Reading the Bones
Marc Aronson, John S. Mead
The Anthropology Book
DK, D.K. Publishing
Bone Voyage
Stanley Rhine
The Goodness Paradox
Richard Wrangham, Richard W. Wrangham
A Companion to Paleopathology
Anne L. Grauer
Almost Human
Lee Berger, John Hawks
Skull in the Rock, the
Marc Aronson
Evolution Gone Wrong
Alex Bezzerides, Joe Knezevich
The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere
Paulette F. C. Steeves, Kristin Aikin Salada
How to Build a Human
Pamela S. Turner, John Gurche
Ancient Bones
Madelaine Böhme, Aimée Ayotte
Illustrated History of Primatology
Matthew Richardson
De-civilisation
Chloë Duckworth, Dr. Chloë N. Duckworth
