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Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 793 ratings — published 2021
Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 514,915 ratings — published 1972
Blacktail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 768 ratings — published 2026
Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.96 — 28 ratings — published
Army of 29 Cats: A Daring Feline Adventure to Save Atomic City (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.92 — 49 ratings — published
The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.32 — 6,263 ratings — published 2026
Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 292 ratings — published 2009
Hidden Creatures: Luscious Leeches, Bashful Botflies, and the Wondrous, History-Shaping World of Parasites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 99 ratings — published
The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does: Critical Essays on Effective Altruism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.37 — 51 ratings — published
Oppressive Liberation: Sexism in Animal Activism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Cat Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.59 — 387 ratings — published 2026
It's Hard to Be an Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 837 ratings — published 2026
Sakura (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,085 ratings — published 2005
Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 787 ratings — published 2024
The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 787 ratings — published 2025
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,343 ratings — published 2024
Slippery Beast: A True Crime Natural History, with Eels (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.78 — 399 ratings — published
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 22,709 ratings — published 2000
Fowl Eulogies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.45 — 1,118 ratings — published 2020
Meat: How the Next Agricultural Revolution Will Transform Humanity's Favorite Food―and Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.39 — 132 ratings — published 2025
Green City Wars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,457 ratings — published 2026
Just Fodder: The Ethics of Feeding Animals (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published
Starlings: The Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.87 — 122 ratings — published
Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,943 ratings — published 2025
A Little Queer Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.40 — 182 ratings — published 2024
Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.29 — 58 ratings — published 2026
Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,725 ratings — published 2024
The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,922 ratings — published 1990
Super Natural: How Life Thrives in Impossible Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 195 ratings — published
Pests & Other Friends: Discover the True Nature of the Most Maligned Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 98 ratings — published
When Animals Speak: Toward an Interspecies Democracy (Animals in Context, 1)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.01 — 73 ratings — published
How to Love Animals: In a Human-Shaped World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.23 — 393 ratings — published
The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,009 ratings — published 2025
Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.08 — 125 ratings — published 2011
The Feather Wars: And the Great Crusade to Save America's Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 403 ratings — published
Romp!: A Journey Through the Natural History of Otters and Why They Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 104 ratings — published
I Am a Cat (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.65 — 19,531 ratings — published 1906
Raising Hare: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.26 — 47,939 ratings — published 2025
When the Cranes Fly South (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.33 — 85,110 ratings — published 2024
The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.43 — 81 ratings — published
Basic Instinct: The Genesis of Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.80 — 35 ratings — published 2005
The Mourner’s Bestiary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 380 ratings — published 2024
Disability and Animality: Crip Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published
Animal Resistance in the Global Capitalist Era (The Animal Turn)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 67 ratings — published
Pet Nation: The Love Affair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.39 — 79 ratings — published
A Training School for Elephants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 490 ratings — published 2025
Ito Junji's Cat Diary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.24 — 17,776 ratings — published 2009
Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 462 ratings — published 2022
The Backyard Bird Chronicles (Flexibound)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.02 — 18,305 ratings — published 2024