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Books About Animals

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Only a Little While Here

A Novel

by María Ospina

Hardcover: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

This prizewinning novel interweaves four animal odysseys in a gripping, adventurous meditation on migration and displacement in the inextricable human and natural worlds.

Python's Kiss

Stories

by Louise Erdrich

Hardcover: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich, a captivating collection of short stories.

Raising Hare

A Memoir

by Chloe Dalton

Hardcover: Mar 2025 | Paperback: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

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.

Black Bear

A Story of Siblinghood and Survival

by Trina Moyles

Hardcover: Jan 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A dazzling memoir about one woman's coexistence with bears in the boreal forest and a singular meditation on sibling loss.

Absolution

Southern Reach, book 4

by Jeff VanderMeer

Hardcover: Oct 2024 | Paperback: Oct 2025

Critics' Consensus:

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.

Bird School

A Beginner in the Wood

by Adam Nicolson

Hardcover: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

An intimate exploration of the lives of birds and their interactions with man, by a preeminent naturalist.

The Call of the Honeyguide

What Science Tells Us about How to Live Well with the Rest of Life

by Rob Dunn

Hardcover: Aug 2025

Critics' Consensus:

How rethinking our relationships with other species can help us reimagine the future of humankind.

Rethinking Rescue

Dog Lady and the Story of America's Forgotten People and Pets

by Carol Mithers

Hardcover: Aug 2024 | Paperback: Aug 2025

Critics' Consensus:

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?

The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog

And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science

by Carly Anne York

Hardcover: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A brilliant new voice in science writing—"witty, whip-smart, truly one of our best" (Mary Roach)—shows why playfulness and curiosity are the key to science.

Say Hello to My Little Friend

A Novel

by Jennine Capó Crucet

Hardcover: Mar 2024 | Paperback: Mar 2025

Critics' Consensus:

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.

Remarkably Bright Creatures

A Novel

by Shelby Van Pelt

Hardcover: May 2022 | Paperback: Mar 2025

Critics' Consensus:

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.

Mornings Without Mii

by Mayumi Inaba

Paperback: Feb 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A beloved Japanese modern classic: a meditation on solitude, independence, writing, and life alongside a cat.

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