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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 — 810 ratings — published 2021
Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 516,861 ratings — published 1972
The Animal Room (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 201 ratings — published
The Oldest Bitch Alive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.64 — 280 ratings — published
Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 8,021 ratings — published 2016
Only a Little While Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,676 ratings — published
Blacktail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,922 ratings — published 2026
Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 32 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 4.91 — 43 ratings — published
The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 7,176 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 4.11 — 138 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 3.38 — 52 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 3.52 — 480 ratings — published 2026
It's Hard to Be an Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,008 ratings — published 2026
Sakura (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,128 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 3.94 — 812 ratings — published 2024
The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.87 — 845 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 — 2,447 ratings — published 2024
Slippery Beast: A True Crime Natural History, with Eels (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.78 — 409 ratings — published
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 22,841 ratings — published 2000
Fowl Eulogies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.44 — 1,149 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 4.40 — 144 ratings — published 2025
Green City Wars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,255 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 3.86 — 128 ratings — published
Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,164 ratings — published 2025
A Little Queer Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.40 — 192 ratings — published 2024
Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 82 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 — 1,762 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 — 4,991 ratings — published 1990
Super Natural: How Life Thrives in Impossible Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 204 ratings — published
Pests & Other Friends: Discover the True Nature of the Most Maligned Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 109 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 4.24 — 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 4.01 — 1,109 ratings — published 2025
Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 126 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 4.08 — 448 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 4.10 — 120 ratings — published
I Am a Cat (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.65 — 19,800 ratings — published 1906
Raising Hare: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.25 — 51,902 ratings — published 2025
When the Cranes Fly South (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.32 — 93,001 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 4.46 — 86 ratings — published
Basic Instinct: The Genesis of Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 36 ratings — published 2005
The Mourner’s Bestiary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as animal-lit)
avg rating 4.27 — 386 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 4.16 — 69 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