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
The Book of the Dun Cow
A rooster's crow holds the world together. Beneath the earth, a serpent wants out.
Fantasy
Animals
Christian Fiction
Classics
Christian
The Book of the Dun Cow
A rooster's crow holds the world together. Beneath the earth, a serpent wants out.
Fantasy
Animals
Christian Fiction
Classics
Christian
Animal Architecture
Termites air-condition, beavers dam, spiders weave: animal engineering that never needed a plan.
Science
Nature
Biology
Animals
Zoology
Animal Architecture
Termites air-condition, beavers dam, spiders weave: animal engineering that never needed a plan.
Science
Nature
Biology
Animals
Zoology
The Cows of Bangalore [Paperback] Shoba Narayan
She went to India for her roots and found them in a milk vendor's cowshed.
Memoir
India
Travel
Animals
Culture
The Cows of Bangalore [Paperback] Shoba Narayan
She went to India for her roots and found them in a milk vendor's cowshed.
Memoir
India
Travel
Animals
Culture
A Life on Our Planet
Half of all wild animals vanished in one lifetime. The way back requires more than cutting carbon.
Science
Nature
Environment
Biology
Ecology
A Life on Our Planet
Half of all wild animals vanished in one lifetime. The way back requires more than cutting carbon.
Science
Nature
Environment
Biology
Ecology
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs were underdogs for 30 million years. Then two mass extinctions handed them the planet.
Science
History
Nature
Biology
Animals
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs were underdogs for 30 million years. Then two mass extinctions handed them the planet.
Science
History
Nature
Biology
Animals
My Family and Other Animals
A boy, his madcap family, and a Greek island teeming with wildlife: a sunny coming-of-age memoir.
Memoir
Animals
Humor
Travel
Classics
My Family and Other Animals
A boy, his madcap family, and a Greek island teeming with wildlife: a sunny coming-of-age memoir.
Memoir
Animals
Humor
Travel
Classics
The Ocean's Menagerie
Ocean invertebrates spent eons perfecting adaptations that now inspire new drugs and materials.
Science
Nature
Animals
Biology
Ecology
The Ocean's Menagerie
Ocean invertebrates spent eons perfecting adaptations that now inspire new drugs and materials.
Science
Nature
Animals
Biology
Ecology
Better Than People
A dog-walking ad brings an anxious stranger to a reclusive artist's door. The animals approve first.
Romance
Gay Romance
Contemporary Romance
Queer
Lgbtq
Better Than People
A dog-walking ad brings an anxious stranger to a reclusive artist's door. The animals approve first.
Romance
Gay Romance
Contemporary Romance
Queer
Lgbtq
Red Dirt Heart 3
When his lover returns to Texas, a cattleman fights to keep their outback dream alive.
Romance
Gay Romance
Contemporary Romance
Contemporary
Australia
Red Dirt Heart 3
When his lover returns to Texas, a cattleman fights to keep their outback dream alive.
Romance
Gay Romance
Contemporary Romance
Contemporary
Australia
Der Prinz von Eidolon
His talking cat comes from a magical world whose missing queen is his ailing mother.
Fantasy
Middle Grade
Children's
Young Adult
Cats
Der Prinz von Eidolon
His talking cat comes from a magical world whose missing queen is his ailing mother.
Fantasy
Middle Grade
Children's
Young Adult
Cats
The Friend
Her mentor's suicide leaves a solitary writer with his grieving Great Dane and a no-dogs lease.
Literary Fiction
Contemporary
Animals
Death
Novels
The Friend
Her mentor's suicide leaves a solitary writer with his grieving Great Dane and a no-dogs lease.
Literary Fiction
Contemporary
Animals
Death
Novels
Search for the Golden Moon Bear
One golden bear, unknown to science. The search for the first new bear species in a century.
Science
Animals
Natural History
Nature
Travel
Search for the Golden Moon Bear
One golden bear, unknown to science. The search for the first new bear species in a century.
Science
Animals
Natural History
Nature
Travel
Around the Ocean in 80 Fish & Other Sea Life
Lanternfish trigger the planet's biggest migration; 79 more portraits from Earth's hidden biosphere.
Science
Nature
Natural History
Biology
Ecology
Around the Ocean in 80 Fish & Other Sea Life
Lanternfish trigger the planet's biggest migration; 79 more portraits from Earth's hidden biosphere.
Science
Nature
Natural History
Biology
Ecology
The Peregrine
One man's decade of chasing peregrines to see an English estuary through their hunting eyes.
Nature
Natural History
Science
Animals
Environment
The Peregrine
One man's decade of chasing peregrines to see an English estuary through their hunting eyes.
Nature
Natural History
Science
Animals
Environment
The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer
Soil, animals, and bank account agree: the 'lunatic' farmer is the only sane one left.
Food
Ecology
Environment
Nature
Sustainability
The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer
Soil, animals, and bank account agree: the 'lunatic' farmer is the only sane one left.
Food
Ecology
Environment
Nature
Sustainability
Beautifully Unexpected
A middle-aged lawyer's tidy life unravels when a messy, witty painter moves in next door.
Romance
M/m
Contemporary Romance
Gay
Contemporary
Beautifully Unexpected
A middle-aged lawyer's tidy life unravels when a messy, witty painter moves in next door.
Romance
M/m
Contemporary Romance
Gay
Contemporary
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
In the Sundarbans, a dolphin scientist must trust a fisherman who speaks no language she knows.
Literary Fiction
India
Historical Fiction
Environment
Contemporary
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
In the Sundarbans, a dolphin scientist must trust a fisherman who speaks no language she knows.
Literary Fiction
India
Historical Fiction
Environment
Contemporary
A Kestrel for a Knave
A neglected boy in a mining town steals a kestrel, discovering in secret his first pride.
Classics
Literary Fiction
Young Adult
British
Animals
A Kestrel for a Knave
A neglected boy in a mining town steals a kestrel, discovering in secret his first pride.
Classics
Literary Fiction
Young Adult
British
Animals
The World Peace Diet
Every war, every famine, every cage starts with the same unrecognized ritual: your dinner.
Vegan
Spirituality
Activism
Animals
Environment
The World Peace Diet
Every war, every famine, every cage starts with the same unrecognized ritual: your dinner.
Vegan
Spirituality
Activism
Animals
Environment
Cattle Kingdom
The Wild West was a speculative bubble fueled by British aristocrats and popped by a single winter.
History
American
Business
Economics
Environment
Cattle Kingdom
The Wild West was a speculative bubble fueled by British aristocrats and popped by a single winter.
History
American
Business
Economics
Environment
The Earth Is Enough
A boy broken by war heals in the Ozarks with his fly-fishing grandfather and great-uncle.
Memoir
Nature
Outdoors
Coming Of Age
Spirituality
The Earth Is Enough
A boy broken by war heals in the Ozarks with his fly-fishing grandfather and great-uncle.
Memoir
Nature
Outdoors
Coming Of Age
Spirituality
One Good Mama Bone
A poor widow raises her dead friend's boy, guided by a cow's fierce, wordless love.
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Southern
Animals
Book Club
One Good Mama Bone
A poor widow raises her dead friend's boy, guided by a cow's fierce, wordless love.
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Southern
Animals
Book Club
The Extreme Life of the Sea
The ocean's strangest creatures survived every challenge for eons. Then we arrived.
Science
Nature
Biology
Ecology
Natural History
The Extreme Life of the Sea
The ocean's strangest creatures survived every challenge for eons. Then we arrived.
Science
Nature
Biology
Ecology
Natural History
Hollow Kingdom
After the humans turn into monsters, a crow and his dog fight to save Seattle's abandoned pets.
Fantasy
Horror
Humor
Dystopian
Post Apocalyptic
Hollow Kingdom
After the humans turn into monsters, a crow and his dog fight to save Seattle's abandoned pets.
Fantasy
Horror
Humor
Dystopian
Post Apocalyptic
Untold Stories of the Little Prince
Bitten by the snake, the Little Prince wanders a land of talking beasts, seeking his rose.
Fantasy
Classics
Fables
Spirituality
Philosophy
Untold Stories of the Little Prince
Bitten by the snake, the Little Prince wanders a land of talking beasts, seeking his rose.
Fantasy
Classics
Fables
Spirituality
Philosophy
Touching Spirit Bear
Banished to an Alaskan island, a teen is mauled by a white bear, sparking inner war.
Young Adult
Middle Grade
Adventure
Survival
Contemporary
Touching Spirit Bear
Banished to an Alaskan island, a teen is mauled by a white bear, sparking inner war.
Young Adult
Middle Grade
Adventure
Survival
Contemporary
What the Bears Know
Hired to kill sixteen bears, a small-town trapper became their protector by learning their language.
Memoir
Nature
Animals
Ecology
Conservation
What the Bears Know
Hired to kill sixteen bears, a small-town trapper became their protector by learning their language.
Memoir
Nature
Animals
Ecology
Conservation
It's Hard to Be an Animal
A shy New Yorker hears animals speak. Their bitter honesty makes the city feel impossibly cruel.
Magical Realism
Fantasy
Contemporary
Literary Fiction
Humor
It's Hard to Be an Animal
A shy New Yorker hears animals speak. Their bitter honesty makes the city feel impossibly cruel.
Magical Realism
Fantasy
Contemporary
Literary Fiction
Humor
The Music of Bees
On an Oregon bee farm, three wounded strangers discover that survival depends on each other.
Contemporary
Adult Fiction
Literary Fiction
Nature
Animals
The Music of Bees
On an Oregon bee farm, three wounded strangers discover that survival depends on each other.
Contemporary
Adult Fiction
Literary Fiction
Nature
Animals
The Good Boy
A tipsy wish turns her dog into a man, and the magic refuses to reverse it.
Romance
Magical Realism
Fantasy
Contemporary
Contemporary Romance
The Good Boy
A tipsy wish turns her dog into a man, and the magic refuses to reverse it.
Romance
Magical Realism
Fantasy
Contemporary
Contemporary Romance
Familiaris
Stranded on an abandoned farm, a restless couple builds a life around uncanny dogs and found family.
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Animals
Dogs
Family
Familiaris
Stranded on an abandoned farm, a restless couple builds a life around uncanny dogs and found family.
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Animals
Dogs
Family
