Krik je bio važan teoretski molekularni biolog i imao je ključnu ulogu u istraživanjima vezanim za otkriće genetičkog koda. Poznat je takođe i po upotrebi termina “centralna dogma” kojom se sumira ideja da genetske informacije teku u ćelijama isključivo u jednom pravcu, od DNK do RNK do proteina.
What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery (Basic Books reprint edition). 1990. ISBN978-0-465-09138-6.
The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search For The Soul (Scribner reprint edition). 1995. ISBN978-0-684-80158-2.
Kreiseliana: about and around Georg Kreisel. ISBN978-1-56881-061-4.; 495 pages. For pages 25 – 32 "Georg Kreisel: a Few Personal Recollections" contributed by Francis Crick.
Chadarevian, Soraya De (2002). Designs For Life: Molecular Biology After World War II. Cambridge University Press. стр. 444. ISBN978-0-521-57078-7.
Roderick Braithwaite. ""'Strikingly Alive', The History of the Mill Hill School Foundation 1807-2007; published Phillimore & Co. ISBN978-1-86077-330-3.
Cape, Jonathan (1977). Horace Freeland Judson. "The Eighth Day of Creation. Makers of the Revolution in Biology"; Penguin Books. 1995., first published. ISBN978-0-14-017800-5.
Errol C. Friedberg. "Sydney Brenner: A Biography", pub. CSHL Press October. 2010. ISBN978-0-87969-947-5.
Krude, Torsten, ур. (2003). DNA Changing Science and Society. Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-0-521-82378-4.. (The Darwin Lectures for 2003, including one by Sir Aaron Klug on Rosalind Franklin's involvement in the determination of the structure of DNA).
Maddox, Brenda (2002). Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA. ISBN978-0-00-655211-6.
Robert Olby; The Path to The Double Helix: Discovery of DNA; first published in October 1974 by MacMillan, with foreword by Francis Crick. ISBN978-0-486-68117-7.; revised in 1994, with a 9-page postscript.
Robert Olby; Oxford National Dictionary article: ‘Crick, Francis Harry Compton (1916–2004)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, January 2008.
Olby, Robert (2009). Francis Crick: Hunter of Life's Secrets. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. ISBN978-0-87969-798-3.
Sayre, Anne (1975). Rosalind Franklin and DNA. New York: W.W. Norton and Company. ISBN978-0-393-32044-2.
Watson, James D. (1980). The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. Atheneum. ISBN978-0-689-70602-8. (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).
Stent, Gunther S. James D. Watson. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA; The Norton Critical Edition, which was published in 1980, edited. ISBN978-0-393-01245-3.
James D. Watson; "Avoid boring people and other lessons from a life in science" New York. . Random House. ISBN978-0-375-41284-4.., 366pp.
Bretscher M, Lawrence P (август 2004). „Francis Crick 1916–2004”. Current Biology. 14 (16): R642—5. PMID15324677. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2004.08.006.CS1 одржавање: Формат датума (веза)
The Quest for ConsciousnessАрхивирано на сајту Wayback Machine (3. март 2009) – The Quest for Consciousness – 65 minute audio program — a conversation on Consciousness with neurobiologist Francis Crick of the Salk Institute and neurobiologist Christof Koch from Caltech.
Listen to Francis Crick and James Watson talking on the BBC in 1962, 1972, and 1974.