Animals
Our closest companions and most fascinating neighbors on Earth take center stage in these illuminating works about animal behavior, intelligence, and relationships. Whether exploring the complex social lives of primates, sharing heartwarming tales of beloved pets, or unlocking the secrets of animal minds, these books celebrate the remarkable creatures who share our world.
Animals Book Summaries
Cows
Trapped by his mother, a man discovers a slaughterhouse where cows talk; killing is his only escape.
Horror
Dark
Literary Fiction
Surreal
Thriller
Immersive
Cows
Trapped by his mother, a man discovers a slaughterhouse where cows talk; killing is his only escape.
Horror
Dark
Literary Fiction
Surreal
Thriller
Animal Speak
The animal that keeps finding you chose you first. Here's what it came to teach.
Spirituality
New Age
Animals
Nature
Reference
Immersive
Animal Speak
The animal that keeps finding you chose you first. Here's what it came to teach.
Spirituality
New Age
Animals
Nature
Reference
How to Raise the Perfect Dog
Why most puppy training fails: the daily-order mistake that overrides everything else you do right.
Dogs
Animals
Pets
Self Help
Personal Development
How to Raise the Perfect Dog
Why most puppy training fails: the daily-order mistake that overrides everything else you do right.
Dogs
Animals
Pets
Self Help
Personal Development
April et le Dernier Ours
On an Arctic island, a lonely girl discovers a polar bear starving and trapped in plastic.
Middle Grade
Animals
Adventure
Contemporary
Environment
April et le Dernier Ours
On an Arctic island, a lonely girl discovers a polar bear starving and trapped in plastic.
Middle Grade
Animals
Adventure
Contemporary
Environment
The Secret Wisdom of Nature
Why a wolf can reroute a river, and salmon feed the forest: nature's invisible connections.
Nature
Science
Environment
Ecology
Biology
The Secret Wisdom of Nature
Why a wolf can reroute a river, and salmon feed the forest: nature's invisible connections.
Nature
Science
Environment
Ecology
Biology
Because of Winn-Dixie
New in town, missing her mother, Opal adopts a stray dog who leads her to community.
Middle Grade
Children
Contemporary
Animals
Classics
Because of Winn-Dixie
New in town, missing her mother, Opal adopts a stray dog who leads her to community.
Middle Grade
Children
Contemporary
Animals
Classics
Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language
Gossip isn't petty. It's the reason language exists: a louder, faster replacement for grooming.
Science
Anthropology
Evolution
Psychology
Language
Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language
Gossip isn't petty. It's the reason language exists: a louder, faster replacement for grooming.
Science
Anthropology
Evolution
Psychology
Language
The Tiger Rising
A grieving boy, a caged tiger, and a fierce girl who believes both should run free.
Middle Grade
Children's
Young Adult
Contemporary
Animals
The Tiger Rising
A grieving boy, a caged tiger, and a fierce girl who believes both should run free.
Middle Grade
Children's
Young Adult
Contemporary
Animals
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
A cat narrator joins his dying owner on a last road trip to find a new home.
Cats
Animals
Literary Fiction
Contemporary
Japan
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
A cat narrator joins his dying owner on a last road trip to find a new home.
Cats
Animals
Literary Fiction
Contemporary
Japan
The Wild Robot
A shipwrecked robot learns to survive among wild animals and becomes mother to an orphaned gosling.
Middle Grade
Science Fiction
Children
Animals
Adventure
The Wild Robot
A shipwrecked robot learns to survive among wild animals and becomes mother to an orphaned gosling.
Middle Grade
Science Fiction
Children
Animals
Adventure
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Tova cleans the aquarium by night. The octopus she saves knows her lost son's secret.
Literary Fiction
Contemporary
Magical Realism
Mystery
Adult
Immersive
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Tova cleans the aquarium by night. The octopus she saves knows her lost son's secret.
Literary Fiction
Contemporary
Magical Realism
Mystery
Adult
The Emotional Lives of Animals
Elephants mourn, dolphins laugh. Animal emotions are real, and the science demands a moral answer.
Animals
Science
Nature
Biology
Psychology
The Emotional Lives of Animals
Elephants mourn, dolphins laugh. Animal emotions are real, and the science demands a moral answer.
Animals
Science
Nature
Biology
Psychology
Practical Ethics
Suffering, equally weighed, rewrites what we owe the poor, the dying, and every creature that feels.
Philosophy
Animals
Nature
Environment
Politics
Practical Ethics
Suffering, equally weighed, rewrites what we owe the poor, the dying, and every creature that feels.
Philosophy
Animals
Nature
Environment
Politics
The Human Zoo
Urban anxiety, status obsession, and self-destruction: a zoologist traces them back to captivity.
Science
Anthropology
Zoology
Psychology
Sociology
The Human Zoo
Urban anxiety, status obsession, and self-destruction: a zoologist traces them back to captivity.
Science
Anthropology
Zoology
Psychology
Sociology
Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
An animal advice column: promiscuous bees, murderous ducks, and the rotifers who ditched sex.
Science
Biology
Evolution
Animals
Humor
Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
An animal advice column: promiscuous bees, murderous ducks, and the rotifers who ditched sex.
Science
Biology
Evolution
Animals
Humor
A Street Cat Named Bob
An injured ginger stray saves a struggling busker from heroin, one shoulder ride at a time.
Animals
Memoir
Cats
Biography
Autobiography
A Street Cat Named Bob
An injured ginger stray saves a struggling busker from heroin, one shoulder ride at a time.
Animals
Memoir
Cats
Biography
Autobiography
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
One boy, three animals, and the art of being kinder to yourself.
Self Help
Philosophy
Art
Graphic Novels
Poetry
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
One boy, three animals, and the art of being kinder to yourself.
Self Help
Philosophy
Art
Graphic Novels
Poetry
The One and Only Ivan
A captive gorilla paints a rescue for the baby elephant who arrives at his run-down mall.
Children
Middle Grade
Animals
Art
Social Justice
The One and Only Ivan
A captive gorilla paints a rescue for the baby elephant who arrives at his run-down mall.
Children
Middle Grade
Animals
Art
Social Justice
Bailey's Story
A golden retriever shields a boy from a dangerous friend whose reckless choices lead to disaster.
Animals
Dogs
Middle Grade
Children
Contemporary
Bailey's Story
A golden retriever shields a boy from a dangerous friend whose reckless choices lead to disaster.
Animals
Dogs
Middle Grade
Children
Contemporary
Animal Liberation
Sentience, not species, determines who matters morally. The book that changed how we treat animals.
Philosophy
Animals
Ethics
Activism
Politics
Animal Liberation
Sentience, not species, determines who matters morally. The book that changed how we treat animals.
Philosophy
Animals
Ethics
Activism
Politics
Thinking in Pictures
A visual mind, shaped by autism, decoded animal fear and transformed the livestock industry.
Memoir
Autism
Psychology
Science
Animals
Thinking in Pictures
A visual mind, shaped by autism, decoded animal fear and transformed the livestock industry.
Memoir
Autism
Psychology
Science
Animals
The Art of Racing in the Rain
A philosophical dog chronicles his owner's fight to keep his daughter after his wife's death.
Animals
Dogs
Contemporary
Literary Fiction
Adult
The Art of Racing in the Rain
A philosophical dog chronicles his owner's fight to keep his daughter after his wife's death.
Animals
Dogs
Contemporary
Literary Fiction
Adult
Horse
An enslaved groom, a 1950s gallerist, and a scholar share a racehorse and a buried past.
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Historical
Animals
Book Club
Horse
An enslaved groom, a 1950s gallerist, and a scholar share a racehorse and a buried past.
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Historical
Animals
Book Club
Staying with the Trouble
There is no escape from collapse, only forging ties with critters, compost, and the dead.
Philosophy
Feminism
Ecology
Anthropology
Theory
Staying with the Trouble
There is no escape from collapse, only forging ties with critters, compost, and the dead.
Philosophy
Feminism
Ecology
Anthropology
Theory
Life, and Death, and Giants
Gabriel Fisher is born a giant in Amish country. Every world that claims him will lose him.
Literary Fiction
Magical Realism
Contemporary
Family
Adult
Immersive
Life, and Death, and Giants
Gabriel Fisher is born a giant in Amish country. Every world that claims him will lose him.
Literary Fiction
Magical Realism
Contemporary
Family
Adult
The Labors of Hercules Beal
A grieving boy named Hercules is assigned the hero's twelve labors as a seventh-grade project.
Middle Grade
Contemporary
Grief
Mythology
Coming Of Age
The Labors of Hercules Beal
A grieving boy named Hercules is assigned the hero's twelve labors as a seventh-grade project.
Middle Grade
Contemporary
Grief
Mythology
Coming Of Age
The Complete Fables
Talking beasts and wicked irony: an ancient slave's complete guide to the human comedy.
Classics
Short Stories
Animals
Mythology
Children
The Complete Fables
Talking beasts and wicked irony: an ancient slave's complete guide to the human comedy.
Classics
Short Stories
Animals
Mythology
Children
The Wall
An invisible wall seals a woman inside a mountain valley, the world beyond it frozen dead.
Literary Fiction
Dystopia
Post Apocalyptic
Survival
Nature
The Wall
An invisible wall seals a woman inside a mountain valley, the world beyond it frozen dead.
Literary Fiction
Dystopia
Post Apocalyptic
Survival
Nature
The Jewish-Japanese Sex & Cook Book and How to Raise Wolves
The title promised sex and cooking. The book delivered wolves, vacuums, and a marriage under siege.
Humor
Memoir
Comedy
Animals
Nature
The Jewish-Japanese Sex & Cook Book and How to Raise Wolves
The title promised sex and cooking. The book delivered wolves, vacuums, and a marriage under siege.
Humor
Memoir
Comedy
Animals
Nature
Dog Man
A cop and his dog are fused into a single hero, facing a cat's robot army.
Graphic Novels
Children
Middle Grade
Comics
Humor
Dog Man
A cop and his dog are fused into a single hero, facing a cat's robot army.
Graphic Novels
Children
Middle Grade
Comics
Humor
Life of Pi
A shipwreck leaves a boy adrift on the Pacific, sharing a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger.
Magical Realism
Adventure
Classics
Fantasy
Literary Fiction
Immersive
Life of Pi
A shipwreck leaves a boy adrift on the Pacific, sharing a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger.
Magical Realism
Adventure
Classics
Fantasy
Literary Fiction
The Ice Monster
To return a resurrected mammoth home, a Victorian orphan steals a warship and outruns a hunter.
Middle Grade
Fantasy
Adventure
Historical Fiction
Humor
The Ice Monster
To return a resurrected mammoth home, a Victorian orphan steals a warship and outruns a hunter.
Middle Grade
Fantasy
Adventure
Historical Fiction
Humor
Fantastic Mr. Fox
A fox’s secret raids anger three farmers, who dig a trap that buries his family underground.
Children
Middle Grade
Animal Fantasy
Fantasy
Classics
Fantastic Mr. Fox
A fox’s secret raids anger three farmers, who dig a trap that buries his family underground.
Children
Middle Grade
Animal Fantasy
Fantasy
Classics
The Sexual Politics of Meat
How the word "meat" hides an animal, and the same logic hides violence against women.
Feminism
Philosophy
Animals
Food
Politics
The Sexual Politics of Meat
How the word "meat" hides an animal, and the same logic hides violence against women.
Feminism
Philosophy
Animals
Food
Politics
How Forests Think
Thought lives in forests, jaguars, and signs. Anthropology has never known how to listen.
Anthropology
Philosophy
Nature
Ecology
Science
How Forests Think
Thought lives in forests, jaguars, and signs. Anthropology has never known how to listen.
Anthropology
Philosophy
Nature
Ecology
Science
A Primate's Memoir
A young scientist joins a baboon troop expecting gorillas and finds violence, humor, and himself.
Memoir
Science
Animals
Biology
Nature
A Primate's Memoir
A young scientist joins a baboon troop expecting gorillas and finds violence, humor, and himself.
Memoir
Science
Animals
Biology
Nature
