Animals in Fiction
We are big animals lovers in Pennant Hills (generally speaking, we put Marnie in the corner when we discuss our fur babies). With the amount of dogs that visit our shop and so many conversations I’ve had with our lovely regulars about their fur babies I knew I needed to do a list of some of my favourite animal books. Some are beautiful, some interesting, some scary and some, well there are animals but maybe it’s a bit more complicated than that (i.e. Life of Pi by Martel or Animal Farm by Orwell).
Call of the Wild by Jack London
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Watership Down by Richard Adams
We are all completely beside ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
All the Birds Singing by Evie Wyld
Life on the Leash by Victoria Schade
The Lucky Galah by Tracy Sorenson
Gregor and the Underland by Suzanne Collins
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness
Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
Storm Boy by Colin Thiele
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Zoo by James Patterson
The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Cujo by Stephen King
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull by Richard Bach
Honorary Non-Fiction Mention: All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriott
Honorary mention: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
