Books with animals as a central theme or character
Books About Animals
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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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Say Hello to My Little Friend: A Novel
by Jennine CapĂł Crucet
Hardcover: Mar 2024
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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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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The Privilege of the Happy Ending: Small, Medium, and Large Stories
by Kij Johnson
Hardcover: Oct 2023
A surprising and exciting new collection of speculative and experimental stories that explore animal intelligences, gender, and the nature of stories.
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Bitch: On the Female of the Species
by Lucy Cooke
Hardcover: Jun 2022
Paperback: Oct 2023
A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom.
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Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial
by Corban Addison
Hardcover: Jun 2022
Paperback: Sep 2023
As vivid and fast-paced as a thriller, Wastelands takes us into the heart of a legal battle over the future of America's farmland and into the lives of the people who found the courage to fight.
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Dinosaurs: A Novel
by Lydia Millet
Hardcover: Oct 2022
Paperback: Aug 2023
Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as "a writer without limits" (Karen Russell) and "a stone-cold genius" (Jenny Offill), Millet makes fiction that vividly evokes the ties between ...
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