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
Fool's Errand
A retired assassin and aging wolf hunt a vanished prince seduced by forbidden beast magic.
Fantasy
Epic Fantasy
High Fantasy
Adventure
Magic
Fool's Errand
A retired assassin and aging wolf hunt a vanished prince seduced by forbidden beast magic.
Fantasy
Epic Fantasy
High Fantasy
Adventure
Magic
Depression Hates a Moving Target
Sixty seconds of jogging. It was the only thing depression couldn't take from her.
Memoir
Mental Health
Health
Psychology
Sports
Depression Hates a Moving Target
Sixty seconds of jogging. It was the only thing depression couldn't take from her.
Memoir
Mental Health
Health
Psychology
Sports
Off to the Races
A disgraced rancher and his sharp-tongued horse trainer can't stop fighting, or falling.
Romance
Contemporary Romance
Contemporary
Sports
Animals
Off to the Races
A disgraced rancher and his sharp-tongued horse trainer can't stop fighting, or falling.
Romance
Contemporary Romance
Contemporary
Sports
Animals
Savor It
A cynical chef and his sunny neighbor fake-date for a summer festival with his departure looming.
Romance
Contemporary
Contemporary Romance
Women
Adult
Savor It
A cynical chef and his sunny neighbor fake-date for a summer festival with his departure looming.
Romance
Contemporary
Contemporary Romance
Women
Adult
The Amazing Afterlife of Animals; Messages and Signs from our Pets on the Other Side
Your departed pet still sends messages. How to recognize the signs from an animal communicator.
Animals
Spirituality
Death
Grief
Self Help
The Amazing Afterlife of Animals; Messages and Signs from our Pets on the Other Side
Your departed pet still sends messages. How to recognize the signs from an animal communicator.
Animals
Spirituality
Death
Grief
Self Help
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows
A hidden belief system decides which animals you befriend and which you eat.
Psychology
Animals
Food
Sociology
Philosophy
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows
A hidden belief system decides which animals you befriend and which you eat.
Psychology
Animals
Food
Sociology
Philosophy
Cat and Mouse in a Haunted House
On a foggy night, a timid mouse editor shelters in a castle where shadows have claws.
Children
Fantasy
Middle Grade
Adventure
Mystery
Cat and Mouse in a Haunted House
On a foggy night, a timid mouse editor shelters in a castle where shadows have claws.
Children
Fantasy
Middle Grade
Adventure
Mystery
Fellow Creatures
Value only exists relative to a creature; human superiority over animals was never coherent.
Philosophy
Animals
Nature
Vegan
Social Justice
Fellow Creatures
Value only exists relative to a creature; human superiority over animals was never coherent.
Philosophy
Animals
Nature
Vegan
Social Justice
Sounder
A sharecropper's son searches for his arrested father, with a wounded dog as his only guide.
Historical Fiction
Classics
Young Adult
Middle Grade
Children's
Sounder
A sharecropper's son searches for his arrested father, with a wounded dog as his only guide.
Historical Fiction
Classics
Young Adult
Middle Grade
Children's
The Underneath
A calico cat, a chained hound, and their hidden kittens, as an ancient snake spirit stirs.
Fantasy
Middle Grade
Animals
Magical Realism
Fairy Tales
The Underneath
A calico cat, a chained hound, and their hidden kittens, as an ancient snake spirit stirs.
Fantasy
Middle Grade
Animals
Magical Realism
Fairy Tales
Ethics in the Real World
A philosopher's case that buying a luxury watch when children are dying is an ethical failure.
Philosophy
Essays
Politics
Science
Environment
Ethics in the Real World
A philosopher's case that buying a luxury watch when children are dying is an ethical failure.
Philosophy
Essays
Politics
Science
Environment
Worst Wingman Ever
A hospice nurse, a misdelivered valentine, and a handyman who won't stop doing kind things.
Romance
Contemporary Romance
Novella
Romantic Comedy
Contemporary
Worst Wingman Ever
A hospice nurse, a misdelivered valentine, and a handyman who won't stop doing kind things.
Romance
Contemporary Romance
Novella
Romantic Comedy
Contemporary
Elephant Run
Occupied Burma: a boy escapes through hidden corridors and braves the jungle to rescue his father.
Historical Fiction
Middle Grade
Adventure
War
Historical
Elephant Run
Occupied Burma: a boy escapes through hidden corridors and braves the jungle to rescue his father.
Historical Fiction
Middle Grade
Adventure
War
Historical
The Instant Millionaire
A childhood among taxidermied animals prepared her for the absurdity of adulthood and anxiety.
Humor
Memoir
Mental Health
Anxiety
Adult
The Instant Millionaire
A childhood among taxidermied animals prepared her for the absurdity of adulthood and anxiety.
Humor
Memoir
Mental Health
Anxiety
Adult
Obsessives, Pioneers, and Other Varieties of Minor Genius
A copywriter, a Catholic doctor, a dog whisperer: how obsessive outsiders see what others overlook.
Psychology
Sociology
Business
Essays
Science
Obsessives, Pioneers, and Other Varieties of Minor Genius
A copywriter, a Catholic doctor, a dog whisperer: how obsessive outsiders see what others overlook.
Psychology
Sociology
Business
Essays
Science
The Philosopher and the Wolf
A philosopher's decade with a wolf revealed that humans misunderstand love, happiness, and death.
Philosophy
Memoir
Animals
Nature
Autobiography
The Philosopher and the Wolf
A philosopher's decade with a wolf revealed that humans misunderstand love, happiness, and death.
Philosophy
Memoir
Animals
Nature
Autobiography
Night Whispers
While her Clan prepares for war, an apprentice unknowingly trains alongside the enemy in her sleep.
Fantasy
Animals
Middle Grade
Cats
Children's
Night Whispers
While her Clan prepares for war, an apprentice unknowingly trains alongside the enemy in her sleep.
Fantasy
Animals
Middle Grade
Cats
Children's
The Outermost House
A year on Cape Cod's outermost beach, tracking the ocean's rhythm and the birds' ancient passage.
Nature
Memoir
Natural History
Classics
Travel
The Outermost House
A year on Cape Cod's outermost beach, tracking the ocean's rhythm and the birds' ancient passage.
Nature
Memoir
Natural History
Classics
Travel
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Five cats, a bottle, and a typewriter: what survival looks like when you stop pretending.
Poetry
Classics
Literature
American
Adult
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Five cats, a bottle, and a typewriter: what survival looks like when you stop pretending.
Poetry
Classics
Literature
American
Adult
Fading Echoes
A ThunderClan apprentice hears everything, but her sister hears only the Dark Forest's lies.
Fantasy
Cats
Animals
Middle Grade
Animal Fantasy
Fading Echoes
A ThunderClan apprentice hears everything, but her sister hears only the Dark Forest's lies.
Fantasy
Cats
Animals
Middle Grade
Animal Fantasy
Diet for a New America
One dietary choice links heart disease, the Amazon, world hunger, and billions of suffering animals.
Health
Food
Nutrition
Diet
Animals
Diet for a New America
One dietary choice links heart disease, the Amazon, world hunger, and billions of suffering animals.
Health
Food
Nutrition
Diet
Animals
The Jungle Book
A human child raised by wolves must confront a vengeful tiger and his own divided nature.
Classics
Children
Fantasy
Adventure
Short Stories
The Jungle Book
A human child raised by wolves must confront a vengeful tiger and his own divided nature.
Classics
Children
Fantasy
Adventure
Short Stories
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse - The Animated Story
A lonely boy meets three animals who teach him, over cake and conversation, that he belongs.
Children
Picture Books
Graphic Novels
Animals
Middle Grade
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse - The Animated Story
A lonely boy meets three animals who teach him, over cake and conversation, that he belongs.
Children
Picture Books
Graphic Novels
Animals
Middle Grade
The Secret Wisdom of Nature
Wolves reshape rivers, salmon fertilize forests, and most human fixes only make ecosystems worse.
Nature
Environment
Ecology
Science
Biology
The Secret Wisdom of Nature
Wolves reshape rivers, salmon fertilize forests, and most human fixes only make ecosystems worse.
Nature
Environment
Ecology
Science
Biology
This Is Vegan Propaganda
How one diet shift cuts your climate impact, ends animal suffering, and prevents the next pandemic.
Animals
Food
Environment
Social Justice
Politics
This Is Vegan Propaganda
How one diet shift cuts your climate impact, ends animal suffering, and prevents the next pandemic.
Animals
Food
Environment
Social Justice
Politics
Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas
Fear, happiness, conspiracy beliefs: all misfire in the same predictable ways. Law can correct them.
Politics
Psychology
Economics
Philosophy
Essays
Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas
Fear, happiness, conspiracy beliefs: all misfire in the same predictable ways. Law can correct them.
Politics
Psychology
Economics
Philosophy
Essays
Zak George's Dog Training Revolution
Most problem behaviors come from boredom. The training method that replaces punishment with play.
Dog
Animals
Pets
Reference
Self Help
Zak George's Dog Training Revolution
Most problem behaviors come from boredom. The training method that replaces punishment with play.
Dog
Animals
Pets
Reference
Self Help
The Call of the Wild / White Fang
A stolen dog and a wild cub take opposite journeys across the brutal Klondike gold rush.
Classics
Adventure
Animals
Literature
Historical Fiction
The Call of the Wild / White Fang
A stolen dog and a wild cub take opposite journeys across the brutal Klondike gold rush.
Classics
Adventure
Animals
Literature
Historical Fiction
Modern Text Book of Zoology
The vertebrate body plan and its 500-million-year unfolding, from the notochord to the amniotic egg.
Science
Biology
Animals
Nature
Education
Modern Text Book of Zoology
The vertebrate body plan and its 500-million-year unfolding, from the notochord to the amniotic egg.
Science
Biology
Animals
Nature
Education
If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal
Human intelligence is overrated. Animal cognition reveals why our big brains are a liability.
Science
Animals
Philosophy
Psychology
Ethology
If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal
Human intelligence is overrated. Animal cognition reveals why our big brains are a liability.
Science
Animals
Philosophy
Psychology
Ethology
Evolution
One idea explains elaborate plumage, the fossil record, and why antibiotics stop working: evolution.
Science
Biology
Natural History
Nature
History
Evolution
One idea explains elaborate plumage, the fossil record, and why antibiotics stop working: evolution.
Science
Biology
Natural History
Nature
History
Mina's Matchbox
A quiet girl, an asthmatic cousin, a pygmy hippo: one fragile year in a Japanese mansion.
Literary Fiction
Japan
Historical Fiction
Asia
Coming Of Age
Mina's Matchbox
A quiet girl, an asthmatic cousin, a pygmy hippo: one fragile year in a Japanese mansion.
Literary Fiction
Japan
Historical Fiction
Asia
Coming Of Age
Last Chance to See
A flightless parrot, a blind dolphin, and the last-chance quest to see them before they vanish.
Travelogues
Nature
Humor
Conservation
Animals
Last Chance to See
A flightless parrot, a blind dolphin, and the last-chance quest to see them before they vanish.
Travelogues
Nature
Humor
Conservation
Animals
The Book of Minds
Intelligence is not a yes-or-no question. It is a landscape, and humans occupy a single coordinate.
Science
Psychology
Philosophy
Consciousness
Biology
The Book of Minds
Intelligence is not a yes-or-no question. It is a landscape, and humans occupy a single coordinate.
Science
Psychology
Philosophy
Consciousness
Biology
