Favorite book/s featuring animals?

[Ginger Ale]

I really want to see what other furry literature enthusiasts enjoy.


Very light spoilers ahead!


My favorite book with anthropomorphic animals has to be Richard Adam's Watership Down. It's a wonderful story about a group of rabbits travelling away from their old warren due to a premonition from a small oracle rabbit named Fiver. It is a touching story all throughout, with interesting points of view on human relations with animals, and animals with each other. The rabbits in this book have a whole culture of their own, with legends that highlight the trickiness of rabbits. There is even a partial language, Lapine, that is based loosely on Arabic (and maybe French?).


What are your favorite books?

[Wildrose]

Hey, Ginger! I really like the Warriors cat books. It's meant for children, but, well, I was younger when I read them. Cx It's about a bunch of cats that live in the wild and try their best to live in peace but there are border fights and forbidden relationships and in later books there is a very awesome prophecy thrown into the mix. It's a great read for any furry. At least, I think so.

[Ginger Ale]

I remember in elementary school, everyone was reading those books! They were always rented out at the library.
Another book I love is Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke. Like the Warrior Cats series, it is meant for children, but I really like it a lot, even though I haven't read it in many years. For a children's book, it has a lot of pages. It is, however, a fairly quick read.

[Wildrose]

Warriors was the best.

[Albie]

My favorite book of all time is Watership Down.  The bunnies are inspiring.

[Fable]

My favorite books probably don't really count because they aren't really animals but Chinese monks who are all named after the animal they represent and fight as. It was a really cool series called the Five Ancestors I believe. So while they were not actually animals they portrayed animals quite well throughout the books.



or maximum Ride by James Patterson but again- not really animals but the characters are all part bird. (sorta counts?)

[Ginger Ale]

My favorite books probably don't really count because they aren't really animals but Chinese monks who are all named after the animal they represent and fight as. It was a really cool series called the Five Ancestors I believe. So while they were not actually animals they portrayed animals quite well throughout the books.



or maximum Ride by James Patterson but again- not really animals but the characters are all part bird. (sorta counts?)

I've heard that Maximum Ride was a pretty good series. Never got into it though, I was reading John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice series when the library got those books, and it's hard to get time in to read much during the school year.

My favorite book of all time is Watership Down.  The bunnies are inspiring.

Yes, its a wonderful book. It was heartbreaking when I heard that Adams had passed away in December. But, like many great authors, he will live on forever in his stories.

[Albie]

I wasn't too sad when he passed as he made it to a ripe, old age.  I just celebrated his life.  I loved other books of his as well.  Such as Plague Dogs.

[Salakar Crocoli]

I'm kinda surprised no one's mentioned Seekers yet. It's a pretty good series.

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[Malina]

I'm surprised no one has said the Hundred and one Dalmatians yet ! Yes it's a kid's book, but that doesnt make it bad per se[/i]

[Corran Orreaux]

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. Love it so much I got a leatherbound edition, the only other book I've gotten in leather form was H.P. Lovecraft: The complete fiction.


Blacky the crow from the green forest series is also a personal favorite.

[Brisky]

Has noone ever heard of "call of the wild" and "white fang"?

They're two books set in the gold-rush period of frontier america, with canines as the main characters. The first a sled dog, and the second, a wolf. The books are extremely old and a little hard to read, because of the old fashioned language. And, also pretty dark, but I think they're still good books.

I like how the books have a pretty accurate view on both humans and animals. Humans aren't portrayed as the smart and superior race, but rather just the [REDACTED] they actually are, completely hell-bent on becoming rich, and tearing themselves apart in the process, or dieing, because they think they're stronger than mother nature. And wolves aren't portrayed as the "wise and mystical creatures" but rather, as animals that need to survive in a pretty harsh world, and thus, do some pretty harsh stuff to achieve doing so.

It's not a very "happy book", no. But it gives you a pretty beautifull perspective on the life story of a little wolf, growing up and turning into a big wolf, and I think that that's awesome!

[s0ul_d3ww]

Maus I and II. It's a true story story of a Holocaust survivor's tale as written and illustrated by his son, but instead of people, they replaced the Jews with mice and the Germans with cats.


Basically, it's a great story but really sad and a bunch of symbolism.

[L. Jay Echoes]

Gregory Maguire's "Wicked" and sequels. I actually am one of the few who prefer the books to the musical. It's basically the Wizard of Oz from the perspective of the Wicked Witch of the West. Maguire has just about the classiest vocabulary I've ever seen--that's usually what draws me in.


John Updike wrote a short story called, "Once in the Jurassic," told from the POV of dinosaurs from that era. Haven't read it, but thought it was worth a mention.

[L. Jay Echoes]

I can't believe I forgot about this, but Patricia Highsmith's "Animal Lover's Book of Beastly Murder" is a must-read. It's exactly what it sounds like; animals that kill (dispecable) people, everything from a dog to a camel to an elephant.

Oh, while technically the characters aren't all animals, Robert Asprin's "Mythology" series was quite edutaining, if incredibly cheesy and subtly preachy in some places.

Mmm... Marjorie Sharp's "Miss Bianca" books were better than I thought they would be.