Richard A. Fortey, The ordovician trilobites of Spitsbergen, Oslo: Norsk Polarinstitutt, 1974-1975.
Richard A. Fortey, Fossils: the key to the past, First edition, London: Heinemann, 1982. Second edition, Cambridge: Harvard University press, 1991. Third edition, London: Natural History Museum, 2002.
Richard A. Fortey, Terra: una storia intima (titolo originale The Earth: An Intimate History), traduzione di Giuliana Olivero, Torino: Codice; Roma: Le scienze, 2007.
Richard A. Fortey, Età: quattro miliardi di anni (titolo originale Life: An Unauthorized Biography. A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth), Traduzione di Isabella C. Blum, Milano: Mondolibri, stampa 2000.
Richard A. Fortey e R. H. Thomas (eds), Arthropod relationships, Collezione The Systematics association special volumes, London: Chapman & Hall, 1998, ISBN 0412754207.
Philip D. Lane, Derek J. Siveter e Richard A. Fortey (eds), Trilobites and their relatives: contributions from the third international conference, Oxford 2001, London: the Palaeontological association, 2003.
Richard A. Fortey, The Hidden Landscape: Journey into the Geological Past, London; Jonathan Cape, 1993, ISBN 0712660402