I love books about animals of all kinds Book recommendations if you can please
I love books about animals of all kinds
Book recommendations if you can please
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I love books about animals of all kinds
Book recommendations if you can please
Black Beauty, War Horse. The James Herriot books.
black beauty is one of my faves, one of few books I will happily reread
Big fan of war horse too 🙂
I’ll definitely look in to the James Herriot books
One good dog
Mort(e) by Robert Repino
All Creatures Great And Small
Marley And Me
loved it, even though it made me cry
Novels or non-fiction?
happy to read both, I’ve a degree in animal behaviour and worked with animals of all kinds on and off for 11 years so happy to read pretty much anything
One of my favorite books is Mind of the Raven by Bernd Heinrich, an ornithologist at Cornell. Not dry and so fascinating. Read it and wanted to find a raven to befriend (sadly, they’re mostly in western Maryland). I also loved The Secret Life of Lobsters. Books like these opened my eyes to how very smart animals are and how they need to be to survive. I also loved My Dog Skip by Willie Morris. Sweet memoir.
Thank you very much. I’ve always wanted to read my dog skip, was one of my favourite films growing up (I had a jack Russell too)
I think his was a smooth coat fox terrier, if I recall.
The “All Creatures Great & Small” series! About a Yorkshire Veterinarian and his encounters on the farms with animals! I have the entire series, I’m sure you’ll love it!…?
I’ve just added them all to my tbr list 🙂
@Kathy was such a great series. I listened to audiobooks and that made it even better!
Dog Tripping by David Rosenfelt, about their journey across country with their 20+ rescue dogs.
Homer’s Odyssey
this ones on my tbr already 🙂
Elephant Company
love stories about how animals helped in the war definitely adding to my tbr
Check out Susan Abel’s Out of the Mist.
George MacDonald’s A Rough Shaking is all about a young boy’s friendships with animals, and his novel Sir Gibbie, though it has broader themes, has some great bits about the hero bonding with dogs, in particular…
Watership Down.
Deric longdon wtites great cat books. Anything by james herriot. Kieran larwood writes a great trilogy about rabbits. Its like watership down meets lord of the rings ?
James Herriot Vet series. Some were made into a TV show
Wesley the owl, Dewey the library cat, the redwall series
The Art of Racing in the Rain. It’s written from the dog’s perspective. Great read!
was just going to post that. Great audio book too!
@Tiffany-Ann this was sooooo good. It is definitely one I would reread.
ETA: just noticed “about animals so disregard my suggestions.?
Where The Crawdads Sing, The Hate U Give, Bird Box, This Will Only Hurt A Little, and The Sound of Gravel are some recent favorites.
A Dogs Purpose, Part Wild, Dogs of Babel, Wesley the Owl, Oogy. I could do this all day. Lol
I thought of another Scent of the Missing
Hi Holly, try ‘Watchers’ by Dean Koontz.
The Search by Nora Roberts (about a woman and her Search and Rescue dog). Also Dean Koontz “A Big Little Life” (a memoir about his Golden Retriever, Trixie). Both were very good.
Oh yes – “The Eighty Dollar Champion: Snowman, The Horse That Inspired a Nation (author Elizabeth Letts) and if you have not read it, Seabiscuit: An American Legend was an excellent book (Laura Hillenbrand). Happy reading!
Bambi by Felix Salter. Better than the movie, but that was good, too.
I saw the.movie about 60 years ago and never got over it to this day!!!
Watership Down; The Art of Racing in the Rain, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Redwall, . . . and the Owl series, that I read, . . . but can not remember the name of. ?
Watership Down — fabulous !!!
Bar Sinister, imo best book about animals ever written https://www.ebay.com/itm/Bar-Sinister-by-Richard-Harding-Davis-English-Hardcover-Book-Free-Shipping/381517420346?epid=167950738&hash=item58d435d73a%3Ag%3A9%7EYAAOSwAWlafXwd%3Ark%3A9%3Apf%3A0
Dog Medicine…❤️
The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams. I liked it better than his other book, Watership Down.
Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult contains beautiful passages about elephants ?
Beautiful Joe. Written in 1893 by Marshall Saunders, it is written from the dog’s POV, which makes it a rather enjoyable middle grade read!
Blaze of Glory (trilogy) if you like horses. I also second Leaving Time, I learned so much about elephants from that book.
All the James Herriott books
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Animal Farm, Watership Down, Marley and Me.
The One and Only Ivan, Pax, The Underneath.
love ivan
James Harriot’s many books.
Dean Koontz – The Darkest Evening of the Year
The Art of Racing in the Rain.
@Barbara added this to my tbr list
The Spotted Tail, The Spotted Shoulder, and The Spotted Traveler by TT Underfoot
Water for Eleohants
Elephants
Finding Gobi ?
Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult…. The setting is elephant sanctuaries… The Songs of The Humbolt Whales also by same author….
Bob the Street Cat
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0015DPX7G/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
@Janet didn’t like this at all. Story went nowhere. Guy runs away from home. Then just goes back again. No clear story arc. Never clear if murderer gets caught.
I liked it. Different. Not quite like anything I’d ever read. But then, I like reading unusual books.
Watership Down
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76620
The Jungle Book.
The Art of Racing In The Rain, the story of a man’s life told through the eyes of his dog. Poignant.
All Things Great and Small
All creatures great and small ?
Animals make us human, don’t remember the author
Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
Love, life and elephants by dame daphne sheldrick. One of the best books i ever read and truly made me want to have more adventure! She died this year and i felt so sad because that book meant so much to me! A must read!
The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
Jenny by Paul Gallico
Wesley the Owl by Stacey O’ Brien
Happy as Harry by Deana Luchia
Animal Farm by George Orwell
“Animal Liberation”.
Watership Down and The Wind in the Willows.
The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle
Watchers
Cujo
Watership Down
@Kim oh yes!
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle.
Beautiful story.
Blitzcat by Robert Westall. One of the very few books that I have re-purchased & re-read. About a black cat during the London Blitz.
Animal farm (George Orwell)
Black Beauty and the Warriors series by Erin Hunter
Totally, All Creatures Great and Small. If you can get an audio of the book, I recommend that too because the accents and phrases of the Yorkshire Dales are priceless and add to the stories beyond measure.
The art of racing in the rain
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck it’s a really good book
Jennie by Douglas Preston
Congo by Michael Crichton
Here’s another that I loved .
Thanks all for the suggestions
I have a full a4 sheet of books to hunt out and add to my tbr list
Kitteroduri
Animal Farm.
Water ship downs
Plague dogs