Books with animals as a central theme or character
Books About Animals
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Say Hello to My Little Friend: A Novel
by Jennine Capó Crucet
Hardcover: Mar 2024
Paperback: Mar 2025
Scarface meets Moby Dick in this groundbreaking, darkly comic novel about a young man's attempt to capitalize on his mother's murky legacy—a story steeped in Miami's marvelous and sinister magic.
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Raising Hare: A Memoir
by Chloe Dalton
Hardcover: Mar 2025
A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman's unlikely friendship with a wild hare.
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Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Novel
by Shelby Van Pelt
Hardcover: May 2022
Paperback: Mar 2025
Winner of the 2022 BookBrowse Debut Award
For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus.
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Mornings Without Mii
by Mayumi Inaba
Paperback: Feb 2025
A beloved Japanese modern classic: a meditation on solitude, independence, writing, and life alongside a cat.
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Absolution: Southern Reach, book 4
by Jeff VanderMeer
Hardcover: Oct 2024
The surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series―and the final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of our time.
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Rethinking Rescue: Dog Lady and the Story of America's Forgotten People and Pets
by Carol Mithers
Hardcover: Aug 2024
Rethinking Rescue boldly confronts two of the biggest challenges of our time — poverty and homelessness — in asking the question: Who deserves the love of a pet?
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Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
by Christian Cooper
Hardcover: Jun 2023
Paperback: Jun 2024
Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian adventures, global excursions, and the unexpected lessons you can learn from a life spent looking up.
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Wings in the Wild
by Margarita Engle
Hardcover: Apr 2023
Paperback: Apr 2024
This gorgeously romantic contemporary novel-in-verse from award-winning author Margarita Engle tells the inspiring love story of two teens fighting for climate action and human rights.
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The Last Animal: A Novel
by Ramona Ausubel
Hardcover: Apr 2023
Paperback: Mar 2024
A playful, witty, and resonant novel in which a single mother and her two teen daughters engage in a wild scientific experiment and discover themselves in the process, from the award-winning writer of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty
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Horse: A Novel
by Geraldine Brooks
Hardcover: Jun 2022
Paperback: Jan 2024
Winner of the 2022 BookBrowse Fiction Award
A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and ...
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How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
by Sabrina Imbler
Hardcover: Dec 2022
Paperback: Jan 2024
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, and particularly to creatures living in hostile or remote environments.
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Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
by Bethany Brookshire
Hardcover: Dec 2022
Paperback: Dec 2023
An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals "pests" and others not - from cats to rats, elephants to pigeons - and what this tells us about our own perceptions, beliefs, and actions, as well as our place in the natural world.
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