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- AUDUBON magazine
- BREATH: THE NEW SCIENCE OF A LOST ART by James Nestor
- HOW THE PENGUINS SAVED VERONICA by Hazel Prior
- LIVING ON THE WIND: ACROSS THE HEMISPHERE WITH MIGRATORY BIRDS by Scott Weidensaul
- ORION magazine
- SEEING VOICES: A JOURNEY INTO THE WORLD OF THE DEAF by Oliver Sacks
- THE BARK magazine
- THE MOST RADICAL THING YOU CAN DO: THE BEST POLITICAL ESSAYS FROM ORION MAGAZINE
- THINKERS OF THE JUNGLE: THE ORANGUTAN REPORT by Gerd Schuster, Willie Smits, and Jay Ullal
Books and Short Works Read in 2021
- THE LIVING FOREST: A VISUAL JOURNEY INTO THE HEART OF THE WOODS by Joan Maloof
- THE NINEMILE WOLVES by Rick Bass
- POEMS: NEW AND SELECTED by Ron Rash
- THE OFFICE OF HISTORICAL CORRECTIONS by Danielle Evans
- THIS IS THEN THAT WAS NOW by Vijay Seshadri
- ORDINARY BEAST by Nicole Sealey
- THE GENIUS OF BIRDS by Jennifer Ackerman
- ESTHER THE WONDER PIG: CHANGING THE WORLD ONE HEART AT A TIME by Steve Jenkins and Derek Walter with Caprice Crane
- AN AMERICAN SUNRISE by Joy Harjo
- THE ROCK FROM THE SKY by Jon Klassen
- HUMMINGBIRD SALAMANDER by Jeff Vandermeer*
- WHY FISH DON’T EXIST: A STORY OF LOSS, LOVE, AND THE HIDDEN ORDER OF LIFE by Lulu Miller
- POSTCOLONIAL LOVE POEM by Natalie Diaz
- PEACES by Helen Oyeyemi*
- BRAIDING SWEETGRASS: INDIGENOUS WISDOM, SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE, AND THE TEACHINGS OF PLANTS by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- FLOWERS OVER THE INFERNO by Ilaria Tuti*
- HOW TO CATCH A MOLE: WISDOM FROM A LIFE LIVED IN NATURE by Marc Hamer
- IN THE LATENESS OF THE WORLD by Carolyn Forché
- SPRING by Ali Smith
- WILD COMFORT: THE SOLACE OF NATURE by Kathleen Dean Moore
- IMPOSSIBLE BOTTLE by Claudia Emerson
- THE SEARCHER by Tana French*
- LOVE CHILD’S HOTBED OF OCCASIONAL POETRY: POEMS & ARTIFACTS by Nikky Finney
- ARCTIC DREAMS: IMAGINATION AND DESIRE IN A NORTHERN LANDSCAPE by Barry Lopez
- THE LOST SPELLS by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
- UNSOLACED: ALONG THE WAY TO ALL THAT IS by Gretel Ehrlich
- BUDDY: HOW A ROOSTER MADE ME A FAMILY MAN by Brian McGrory*
- OLIVE, AGAIN by Elizabeth Strout
- HOW TO CARRY WATER by Lucille Clifton
- NEW ADDRESSES by Kenneth Koch
- ON EARTH WE’RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS by Ocean Vuong
- ANIMAL POEMS by Valerie Worth
- WHALE DAY by Billy Collins
- WEATHER by Jenny Offill
- NOCTURNES: FIVE STORIES OF MUSIC AND NIGHTFALL by Kazuo Ishiguro*
- SILENT BITE by David Rosenfelt
- WORLD OF WONDERS: IN PRAISE OF FIREFLIES, WHALE SHARKS, AND OTHER ASTONISHMENTS by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- WHAT ARE YOU GOING THROUGH by Sigrid Nunez
- ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE by Louise Penny
- NOSE DIVE: A FIELD GUIDE TO THE WORLD’S SMELLS by Harold McGee*
Books and Short Works Read in 2020
- THE WILD PARROTS OF TELEGRAPH HILL: A LOVE STORY...WITH WINGS by Mark Bittner
- THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE by Charlie Mackesy
- PERESTROIKA IN PARIS by Jane Smiley
- THE POINT LESS TAKEN by Geoffrey Young
- DESERT SOLITAIRE: A SEASON IN THE WILDERNESS by Edward Abbey
- THE LION AND THE BIRD by Marianne Dubuc
- DEVOTIONS by Mary Oliver
- THE PLACE NO ONE KNEW: GLEN CANYON ON THE COLORADO by Eliot Porter
- THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS by Kenneth Grahame
- DEARLY by Margaret Atwood
- VESPER FLIGHTS by Helen Macdonald
- SYNTHESIZING GRAVITY: SELECTED PROSE by Kay Ryan
- HOW TO FLY (IN TEN THOUSAND EASY LESSONS) by Barbara Kingsolver
- SOLUTIONS AND OTHER PROBLEMS by Allie Brosh
- THE INNER LIFE OF ANIMALS: LOVE, GRIEF, AND COMPASSION—SURPRISING OBSERVATIONS OF A HIDDEN WORLD by Peter Wohlleben*
- JACK by Marilynne Robinson
- A FIRE STORY by Brian Fies
- THE LIVING BIRD: 100 YEARS OF LISTENING TO NATURE from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- THE ESSENTIAL RUMI*
- HARRY’S TREES by Jon Cohen*
- SPELL OF THE TIGER: THE MAN-EATERS OF SUNDARBANS by Sy Montgomery
- THE WONDER OF LOST CAUSES by Nick Trout
- THE END OF NATURE by Bill McKibben
- THE TEMPTATION OF FORGIVENESS by Donna Leon
- OBLIVION BANJO by Charles Wright*
- FASTEST THINGS ON WINGS: RESCUING HUMMINGBIRDS IN HOLLYWOOD by Terry Masear
- SELECTED POEMS by Fanny Howe
- MOO by Sharon Creech
- MUZZLED by David Rosenfelt
- ON TYRANNY: TWENTY LESSONS FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Timothy Snyder
- OF MUTTS AND MEN by Spencer Quinn
- CLOCK DANCE by Anne Tyler
- HER BLUE BODY EVERYTHING WE KNOW: EARTHLING POEMS, 1965–1990 COMPLETE by Alice Walker
- HORIZON by Barry Lopez
- FLORA & ULYSSES: THE ILLUMINATED ADVENTURES by Kate DiCamillo
- THE STORY OF FERDINAND by Munro Leaf
- THE DOOR by Margaret Atwood
- BABY BEAR by Kadir Nelson
- HORSES MAKE A LANDSCAPE LOOK MORE BEAUTIFUL by Alice Walker
- GOOD NIGHT, WILLIE LEE, I’LL SEE YOU IN THE MORNING by Alice Walker
- BROWN GIRL DREAMING by Jacqueline Woodson
- MITZ: THE MARMOSET OF BLOOMSBURY by Sigrid Nunez
- THE WATERS OF ETERNAL YOUTH by Donna Leon
- ACTRESS by Anne Enright*
- THE GIVER OF STARS by Jojo Moyes
- DONKEY-DONKEY by Roger Duvoisin
- CREATURES by Crissy Van Meter
- THE TURTLE OF OMAN by Naomi Shihab Nye
- LEDGER by Jane Hirshfield
- ALMOST EVERYTHING: NOTES ON HOPE by Anne Lamott
- SEEING STARS by Simon Armitage
- WAITING FOR APHRODITE: JOURNEYS INTO THE TIME BEFORE BONES by Sue Hubbell
- LEAVING TIME by Jodi Picoult
- LIFE IN THE GARDEN by Penelope Lively
- ONE LONG RIVER OF SONG by Brian Doyle
- THE HIDDEN WORLD OF THE FOX by Adele Brand
- WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens
- PAWS VS. CLAWS by Spencer Quinn
- ESSAYS: ONE by Lydia Davis
- UNDERLAND: A DEEP TIME JOURNEY by Robert Macfarlane
- THE BEAK OF THE FINCH: A STORY OF EVOLUTION IN OUR TIME by Jonathan Weiner
- CHARLOTTE'S WEB by E. B. White
- STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN by Alison Hawthorne Deming
- RING AROUND THE MOON: MOMMY GOOSE RHYMES by Mike Norris
- HEATING & COOLING: 52 MICRO-MEMOIRS by Beth Ann Fennelly
- JOY: 100 POEMS edited by Christian Wiman
- THE ANIMALS IN MY LIFE: STORIES OF A COUNTRY VET by Grant Kendall
- THE WAVE: IN PURSUIT OF THE ROGUES, FREAKS, AND GIANTS OF THE OCEAN by Susan Casey
- DREAM WORK by Mary Oliver
- EROSION: ESSAYS OF UNDOING by Terry Tempest Williams
- HOLLOW KINGDOM by Kiri Jane Buxton
- A SHORT PHILOSOPHY OF BIRDS by Philippe J. Dubois and Elise Rousseau*
Books and Short Works Read in 2019
- LITTLE ALF: THE TRUE STORY OF A PINT-SIZED PONY WHO FOUND HIS FOREVER HOME by Hannah Russell
- COFFEE by Randy Burgess
- THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING edited by Sy Montgomery
- MORNING COFFEE by Glen G. Greenwalt
- THE POISONWOOD BIBLE by Barbara Kingsolver*
- ABOUT THIS LIFE: JOURNEYS ON THE THRESHOLD OF MEMORY by Barry Lopez
- EAGER: THE SURPRISING, SECRET LIFE OF BEAVERS AND WHY THEY MATTER by Ben Goldfarb
- DACHSHUND THROUGH THE SNOW by David Rosenfelt
- AN UNNECESSARY WOMAN by Rabih Alameddine
- HE HELD RADICAL LIGHT: THE ART OF FAITH, THE FAITH OF ART by Christian Wiman
- MAKE IT SCREAM, MAKE IT BURN: ESSAYS by Leslie Jamison*
- CINDERELLA LIBERATOR by Rebecca Solnit
- A BETTER MAN by Louise Penny
- SENIOR DOGS ACROSS AMERICA by Nancy LeVine
- BIG SKY by Kate Atkinson
- CREATURELY: AND OTHER ESSAYS by Devin Johnston
- SAVING JEMIMA: LIFE AND LOVE WITH A HARD-LUCK JAY by Julie Zickefoose
- WADE IN THE WATER: POEMS by Tracy K. Smith
- CROWS: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE WISE GUYS by Candace Savage
- RUFF VS. FLUFF by Spencer Quinn
- ORANGE WORLD: AND OTHER STORIES by Karen Russell
- BIRDING WITHOUT BORDERS: AN OBSESSION, A QUEST, AND THE BIGGEST YEAR IN THE WORLD by Noah Strycker
- COME CLOSER AND LISTEN by Charles Simic
- THE ROOTS OF THINGS: ESSAYS by Maxine Kumin
- THE SONGS OF TREES: STORIES FROM NATURE'S GREAT CONNECTORS by David George Haskell
- BARK OF NIGHT by David Rosenfelt
- FINDING MY ELEGY: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Ursula K. Le Guin
- BY ALL MEANS: A ZEN CAUTIONARY TALE by Edward Brown
- HEART OF BARKNESS by Spencer Quinn
- FIELD WORK: MODERN POEMS FROM EASTERN FORESTS edited by Erik Reece
- THE LAST FLIGHT OF THE SCARLET MACAW: ONE WOMAN'S FIGHT TO SAVE THE WORLD'S MOST BEAUTIFUL BIRD by Bruce Barcott
- KINGDOM OF THE BLIND by Louise Penny
- THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS: ESSAYS by Ross Gay
- A MAP TO THE NEXT WORLD: POETRY AND TALES by Joy Harjo
- THE MAGNIFICENT MIGRATION: ON SAFARI WITH AFRICA’S LAST GREAT HERDS by Sy Montgomery
- THE RIVER by Peter Heller
- ANGEL HORSES: DIVINE MESSENGERS OF HOPE by Allen and Linda Anderson
- DAYS & DAYS by Michael Dickman*
- THE GRAND ARRAY: WRITINGS ON NATURE, SCIENCE, AND SPIRIT by Pattiann Rogers
- HERE: POEMS FOR THE PLANET edited by Elizabeth J. Coleman
- THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN by Garth Stein
- LOWELL: THE TRUE STORY OF AN EXISTENTIAL PIG by Gay L. Balliet
- INTO GREAT SILENCE: A MEMOIR OF DISCOVERY AND LOSS AMONG VANISHING ORCAS by Eva Saulitis
- SAY GOODBYE TO THE CUCKOO: MIGRATORY BIRDS AND THE IMPENDING ECOLOGICAL CATASTROPHE by Michael McCarthy
- TENTH OF DECEMBER by George Saunders
- MANY WAYS TO SAY IT by Eva Saulitis
- THE VIXEN by W. S. Merwin
- THE WILD BRAID: A POET REFLECTS ON A CENTURY IN THE GARDEN by Stanley Kunitz
- FURTHEST ECOLOGY by Adam Fagin
- THE 100-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED by Jonas Jonasson
- FALLING ILL: LAST POEMS by C. K. Williams
- DOG LANGUAGE by Chase Twichell
- BECOMING EARTH: ESSAYS by Eva Saulitis
- THE SOURCE OF SELF-REGARD: SELECTED ESSAYS, SPEECHES, AND MEDITATIONS by Toni Morrison*
- THE OCTOPUS MUSEUM by Brenda Shaughnessy
- THE PENGUIN LESSONS: WHAT I LEARNED FROM A REMARKABLE BIRD by Tom Michell
- BASIL OF BYWATER HOLLOW by Jill Baker
- THE COUNTRY BUNNY AND THE LITTLE GOLD SHOES by DuBose Heyward
- THIS IS A POEM THAT HEALS FISH by Jean-Pierre Siméon
- FOREST UNDER STORY: CREATIVE INQUIRY IN AN OLD-GROWTH FOREST edited by Nathaniel Brodie, Charles Goodrich, and Frederick J. Swanson
- HIGGLETY PIGGLETY POP! OR THERE MUST BE MORE TO LIFE by Maurice Sendak
- ODES by Sharon Olds
- WHY RELIGION? A PERSONAL STORY by Elaine Pagels
- GMORNING, GNIGHT!: LITTLE PEP TALKS FOR ME & YOU by Lin-Manuel Miranda
- A SENSE OF WONDER: THE WORLD'S BEST WRITERS ON THE SACRED, THE PROFANE, & THE ORDINARY edited by Brian Doyle
- DECK THE HOUNDS by David Rosenfelt
- FALLING IN LOVE by Donna Leon
- DEAR FRIEND, FROM MY LIFE I WRITE TO YOU IN YOUR LIFE by Yiyun Li
- THE RIVER OF CONSCIOUSNESS by Oliver Sacks
- THE ILLUMINATED RUMI
- JUNIPER: THE HAPPIEST FOX by Jessika Coker
- THE LOST WORDS by Robert Macfarlane
- MINK RIVER by Brian Doyle
- GRATITUDE by Oliver Sacks
- THE WITCH ELM by Tana French
- THE SWEET BREATHING OF PLANTS: WOMEN WRITING ON THE GREEN WORLD edited by Linda Hogan and Brenda Peterson
- RESCUED: SAVING ANIMALS FROM DISASTER—LIFE-CHANGING STORIES AND PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS by Allen and Linda Anderson
- RED DOG by Jason Miller
- FOX 8 by George Saunders
- THE ART OF THE WASTED DAY by Patricia Hampl
- EMILY DICKINSON: THE GORGEOUS NOTHINGS edited by Marta L. Werner and Jen Bervin
BOOKS AND SHORT WORKS READ IN 2018
- A SAND COUNTY ALMANAC: AND SKETCHES HERE AND THERE by Aldo Leopold
- CALYPSO by David Sedaris
- TELL ME HOW IT ENDS: AN ESSAY IN 40 QUESTIONS by Valeria Luiselli
- DOWN DON'T BOTHER ME by Jason Miller
- THE PINE BARRENS by John McPhee
- WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE? ESSAYS by Marilynne Robinson
- PUBLIC LIBRARY: AND OTHER STORIES by Ali Smith
- AMERICAN SONNETS FOR MY PAST AND FUTURE ASSASSIN by Terrance Hayes
- UNSHELTERED by Barbara Kingsolver
- JANE KENYON COLLECTED POEMS
- THE FLAME: POEMS NOTEBOOKS LYRICS DRAWINGS by Leonard Cohen
- CARRYING ALBERT HOME: THE SOMEWHAT TRUE STORY OF A MAN, HIS WIFE, AND HER ALLIGATOR by Homer Hickam*
- SEA PRAYER by Khaled Hosseini
- HOW TO BE A GOOD CREATURE: A MEMOIR IN THIRTEEN ANIMALS by Sy Montgomery
- THE THIRD HOTEL by Laura Van den Berg
- AUTUMN by Karl Ove Knausgaard
- POSEIDON'S STEED: THE STORY OF SEAHORSES, FROM MYTH TO REALITY by Helen Scales
- AUTUMN by Ali Smith
- THE MASKED BOBWHITE RIDES AGAIN by John Alcock
- THE CARRYING by Ada Limón
- THE FRIEND by Sigrid Nunez
- RESCUED by David Rosenfelt
- BEING MORTAL: MEDICINE AND WHAT MATTERS IN THE END by Atul Gawande
- THE MONARCHS: A POEM SEQUENCE by Alison Hawthorne Deming
- THE WONDERFUL O by James Thurber
- EVERYONE'S A ALIEBN WHEN UR A ALIEBN TOO by Jomny Sun
- XO, OX: A LOVE STORY by Adam Rex
- THE FINAL SOLUTION: A STORY OF DETECTION by Michael Chabon
- THE BEST DAY THE WORST DAY: LIFE WITH JANE KENYON by Donald Hall
- ARE WE SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW HOW SMART ANIMALS ARE? by Frans de Waal
- THE RACE TO SAVE THE LORD GOD BIRD by Phillip Hoose
- ORPHAN TRAIN by Christina Baker Kline
- LAST STAND: AMERICA'S VIRGIN LANDS by Barbara Kingsolver
- BILLY TWITTERS AND HIS BLUE WHALE PROBLEM by Mac Barnett
- ADRIAN SIMCOX DOES NOT HAVE A HORSE by Marcy Campbell
- A GREYHOUND A GROUNDHOG by Emily Jenkins
- FOUR WINGS AND A PRAYER: CAUGHT IN THE MYSTERY OF THE MONARCH BUTTERFLY by Sue Halpern
- BY ITS COVER by Donna Leon
- THE SEVEN AGES by Louise Glück
- THE LIFE LIST OF ADRIAN MANDRICK by Chris White
- THE OVERSTORY by Richard Powers
- THE BLACK RHINOS OF NAMIBIA: SEARCHING FOR SURVIVORS IN THE AFRICAN DESERT by Rick Bass
- WITNESS TREE: SEASONS OF CHANGE WITH A CENTURY-OLD OAK by Lynda V. Mapes
- THE GOLDEN EGG by Donna Leon
- THE RESERVOIR: STORIES AND SKETCHES by Janet Frame
- WILL & I: A MEMOIR by Clay Byars
- THE WONDERLING: SONGCATCHER by Mira Bartók
- VERNON IS ON HIS WAY: SMALL STORIES by Philip C. Stead
- SALT by Wisława Szymborska
- HALLELUJAH ANYWAY: REDISCOVERING MERCY by Anne Lamott
- A HOME FOR BIRD by Philip C. Stead
- CALLING OUT TO YETI by Wisława Szymborska
- BEASTLY THINGS by Donna Leon
- QUICKENING FIELDS by Pattiann Rogers
- VINEGAR GIRL by Anne Tyler
- SWAMPLANDIA! by Karen Russell
- LOVE, LIFE, AND ELEPHANTS: AN AFRICAN LOVE STORY by Dame Daphne Sheldrick
- BUFFALO GALS AND OTHER ANIMAL PRESENCES by Ursula K. Le Guin
- LOVE THAT DOG by Sharon Creech
- INTIMATE NATURE: THE BOND BETWEEN WOMEN AND ANIMALS edited by Linda Hogan, Deena Metzger, and Brenda Peterson
- MIDNIGHT AT THE BRIGHT IDEAS BOOKSTORE by Matthew Sullivan
- THE ARMCHAIR BIRDER: DISCOVERING THE SECRET LIVES OF FAMILIAR BIRDS by John Yow
- AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FACE by Lucy Grealy
- GARDEN TIME by W.S. Merwin
- THE CHILD IN TIME by Ian McEwan
- OUR WORLD by Mary Oliver
- DRAWING CONCLUSIONS by Donna Leon
- AFTER THE STROKE: A JOURNAL by May Sarton
- XYLOTHEQUE: ESSAYS by Yelizaveta P. Renfro
- ONE STATION AWAY by Olaf Olafsson*
- VOICES IN THE AIR: POEMS FOR LISTENERS by Naomi Shihab Nye
- CATNIP: A LOVE STORY by Michael Korda
- A NEW PATH TO THE WATERFALL by Raymond Carver
- THE STORY OF ARTHUR TRULUV by Elizabeth Berg
- THE HOUSE ON MARSHLAND by Louise Glück
- GLASS HOUSES by Louise Penny
- POETRY OF PRESENCE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF MINDFULNESS POEMS edited by Phyllis Cole-Dai and Ruby R. Wilson
- SWING TIME by Zadie Smith
- THE DAILY COYOTE: A STORY OF LOVE, SURVIVAL, AND TRUST IN THE WILDS OF WYOMING by Shreve Stockton
- LAST STAND OF THE TALLGRASS PRAIRIE by Aimée Larrabee and John Altman
- ARCTIC AUTUMN: A JOURNEY TO SEASON'S EDGE by Pete Dunne
- AFTERGLOW (A DOG MEMOIR) by Eileen Myles
- THE KILLDEER AND OTHER STORIES FROM THE FARMING LIFE by Michael Cotter
- THEFT BY FINDING: DIARIES 1977–2002 by David Sedaris
- BARN DANCE—NICKERS, BRAYS, BLEATS, HOWLS, AND QUACKS: TALES FROM THE HERD by Anna Blake
- WHAT I LOVED by Siri Hustvedt
- STABLE RELATION: A MEMOIR OF ONE WOMAN'S SPIRITED JOURNEY HOME, BY WAY OF THE BARN by Anna Blake
BOOKS AND SHORT WORKS READ IN 2017
- ONE HUNDRED NAMES FOR LOVE: A STROKE, A MARRIAGE, AND THE LANGUAGE OF HEALING by Diane Ackerman
- SERIOUSLY...I'M KIDDING by Ellen Degeneres*
- TIGERS IN RED WEATHER: A QUEST FOR THE LAST WILD TIGERS by Ruth Padel
- TAMED AND UNTAMED: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE ANIMAL KIND by Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
- NERVE STORM by Amy Gerstler
- WHY BE HAPPY WHEN YOU COULD BE NORMAL? by Jeanette Winterson
- ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR HORSES: A MEMOIR OF FARM AND FAMILY, AFRICA AND EXILE by Mandy Retzlaff*
- LISTENING TO WHALES: WHAT THE ORCAS HAVE TAUGHT US by Alexandra Morton
- HERE AND NOW: LETTERS 2008-2011 by Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee
- WISHTREE by Katherine Applegate
- UNFORGETTABLE: THE BOLD FLAVORS OF PAULA WOLFERT'S RENEGADE LIFE by Emily Kaiser Thelin
- A QUESTION OF BELIEF by Donna Leon
- SEASONS OF THE WILD: A YEAR OF NATURE'S MAGIC AND MYSTERIES by Sy Montgomery
- ENSLAVED BY DUCKS by Bob Tarte*
- DOLPHIN SONG by Lauren St. John*
- THE PRAIRIE KEEPERS: SECRETS OF THE GRASSLANDS by Marcy Cottrell Houle
- ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE by Elizabeth Strout
- LETTERS TO HIS NEIGHBOR by Marcel Proust, translated by Lydia Davis
- LIFE IN THE VALLEY OF DEATH: THE FIGHT TO SAVE TIGERS IN A LAND OF GUNS, GOLD, AND GREED by Alan Rabinowitz
- THE WHITE GIRAFFE by Lauren St. John
- BOW WOW by Spencer Quinn
- MOBY-DUCK: THE TRUE STORY OF 28,000 BATH TOYS LOST AT SEA AND OF THE BEACHCOMBERS, OCEANOGRAPHERS, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, AND FOOLS, INCLUDING THE AUTHOR, WHO WENT IN SEARCH OF THEM by Donovan Hohn
- THE BIRD ARTIST by Howard Norman
- TREE: A LIFE STORY by David Suzuki and Wayne Grady
- WINGS FOR MY FLIGHT: THE PEREGRINE FALCONS OF CHIMNEY ROCK by Marcy Cottrell Houle
- BROKEN WING by David Budbill
- COLLARED by David Rosenfelt
- ABOUT FACE by Donna Leon
- THE SLOW WALTZ OF TURTLES by Katherine Pancol
- THE OWL WHO LIKED SITTING ON CAESAR: LIVING WITH A TAWNY OWL by Martin Windrow
- SCRIBBLED IN THE DARK by Charles Simic
- OUTLINE by Rachel Cusk
- REVOLUTIONARY PETUNIAS by Alice Walker
- "Resurrection" by Rebeca Dunn-Krahn
- ONCE by Alice Walker
- COCKFOSTERS by Helen Simpson
- LAST CHANCE TO SEE by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
- THE GIRL OF HIS DREAMS by Donna Leon
- GENERATIONS by Pattiann Rogers
- THE BIOGRAPHY OF A SILVER FOX by Ernest Thomas Seton
- THE SECRET OF EVIL by Roberto Bolaño*
- THE LAST RHINOS: MY BATTLE TO SAVE ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST CREATURES by Lawrence Anthony
- CELINE by Peter Heller
- SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN by Donna Leon
- THE GIFT OF BIRDS: TRUE ENCOUNTERS WITH AVIAN SPIRITS edited by Larry Habegger and Amy G. Carlson
- THE RIGHT SIDE by Spencer Quinn
- HOW TO BE HUMAN by Paula Cocozza
- THE BEDSIDE BOOK OF BIRDS: AN AVIAN MISCELLANY by Graeme Gibson
- SMITTEN BY GIRAFFE: MY LIFE AS A CITIZEN SCIENTIST by Anne Innis Dagg
- SQUIRREL SEEKS CHIPMUNK by David Sedaris
- A LINE MADE BY WALKING by Sara Baume
- THE ELEPHANT WHISPERER: MY LIFE WITH THE HERD IN THE AFRICAN WILD by Lawrence Anthony with Graham Spence
- AN OBSESSION WITH BUTTERFLIES: OUR LONG LOVE AFFAIR WITH A SINGULAR INSECT by Sharman Apt Russell
- THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY by Donna Leon
- THE TENDER BAR by J.R. Moehringer
- IN OTHER WORDS by May Swenson
- TRACKING DESIRE: A JOURNEY AFTER SWALLOW-TAILED KITES by Susan Cerulean
- THE LITTLE PARIS BOOKSHOP by Nina George*
- WILL'S RED COAT: THE STORY OF ONE OLD DOG WHO CHOSE TO LIVE AGAIN by Tom Ryan
- AND EVERY MORNING THE WAY HOME GETS LONGER AND LONGER by Fredrik Backman
- FLOAT by Anne Carson
- BETWEEN THEM: REMEMBERING MY PARENTS by Richard Ford
- TEACHING THE TREES: LESSONS FROM THE FOREST by Joan Maloof
- BLOOD FROM A STONE by Donna Leon
- BRITT-MARIE WAS HERE by Fredrik Backman
- AN UNSPOKEN HUNGER: STORIES FROM THE FIELD by Terry Tempest Williams
- GYPSY: THE CAT WHO LIVED AT ASHLAND by Louisiana Wood Simpson
- WHEN ELEPHANTS WEEP: THE EMOTIONAL LIVES OF ANIMALS by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy
- A KEEPER OF BEES: NOTES ON HIVE AND HOME by Allison Wallace
- MY GRANDMOTHER ASKED ME TO TELL YOU SHE'S SORRY by Fredrik Backman
- ART & NATURE: AN ILLUSTRATED ANTHOLOGY OF NATURE POETRY selected by Kate Farrell
- A COUNTRY YEAR: LIVING THE QUESTIONS by Sue Hubbell
- RAVENS IN WINTER by Bernd Heinrich
- SUSPECT by Robert Crais
- LAROSE by Louise Erdrich
- BESTIARY by Donika Kelly
- COMMONWEALTH by Ann Patchett
- QUEEN VICTORIA'S SKETCHBOOK by Marina Warner
- KNUFFLE BUNNY FREE by Mo Willems
- AQUARIUM by David Vann
- DON'T LET THE PIGEON DRIVE THE BUS by Mo Willems
- DOCTORED EVIDENCE by Donna Leon
- CONFESSIONS OF A TURTLE WIFE: A MAN, A WOMAN, AND THE TURTLES THAT THREATEN TO COME BETWEEN THEM by Anita Salzberg
- ANIMALS & PEOPLE: A SELECTION OF ESSAYS FROM ORION MAGAZINE
- UNIFORM JUSTICE by Donna Leon
- THE BIRDS OF HEAVEN: TRAVELS WITH CRANES by Peter Matthiessen
- FOR A LITTLE WHILE by Rick Bass*
- ALL AT ONCE by C. K. Williams
- POEMS OF NATURE edited by Gail Harvey
- FREEDOM by Jonathan Franzen
- DEEP LANE by Mark Doty
Books and Short Works Read in 2016
- THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER by Rebecca West
- UPSTREAM by Mary Oliver
- THE TWELVE DOGS OF CHRISTMAS by David Rosenfelt
- BABY BIRDS: AN ARTIST LOOKS INTO THE NEST by Julie Zickefoose
- BIRDS, BEASTS, AND RELATIVES by Gerald Durrell
- RIVER NOTES: THE DANCE OF HERONS by Barry Holstun Lopez
- A MONSTER CALLS by Patrick Ness
- THE RIVER SOUND by W. S. Merwin
- A MAN CALLED OVE by Fredrik Backman
- THE BLUEBIRD EFFECT: UNCOMMON BONDS WITH COMMON BIRDS by Julie Zickefoose
- A HAIKU MENAGERIE: LIVING CREATURES IN POEMS AND PRINTS edited by Stephen Addiss with Fumiko and Akira Yamamoto
- LOVE AT FIRST BARK: HOW SAVING A DOG CAN SOMETIMES HELP YOU SAVE YOURSELF by Julie Klam
- LILY AND THE OCTOPUS by Steven Rowley
- THE LAST WALK: REFLECTIONS ON OUR PETS AT THE END OF THEIR LIVES* by Jessica Pierce
- A GREAT RECKONING by Louise Penny
- SONG FOR THE BLUE OCEAN: ENCOUNTERS ALONG THE WORLD'S COASTS AND BENEATH THE SEAS by Carl Safina
- COLLECTED POEMS: 1930–1973 by May Sarton*
- BESPOTTED: MY FAMILY'S LOVE AFFAIR WITH THIRTY-EIGHT DALMATIANS by Linda Gray Sexton*
- THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES: WHAT THEY FEEL, HOW THEY COMMUNICATE by Peter Wohlleben
- WILLFUL BEHAVIOR by Donna Leon
- INNUMERACY: MATHEMATICAL LITERACY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES by John Allen Paulos
- HOPE IN THE DARK: UNTOLD HISTORIES, WILD POSSIBILITIES by Rebecca Solnit
- THE STORY OF A NEW NAME by Elena Ferrante
- OUTFOXED by David Rosenfelt
- OUR ONLY WORLD: TEN ESSAYS by Wendell Berry
- A TED HUGHES BESTIARY edited by Alice Oswald*
- THE HOUR OF LAND: A PERSONAL TOPOGRAPHY OF AMERICA'S NATIONAL PARKS by Terry Tempest Williams
- MY BRILLIANT FRIEND by Elena Ferrante
- EXCURSIONS IN THE REAL WORLD by William Trevor
- THE GREAT PENGUIN RESCUE: 40,000 PENGUINS, A DEVASTATING OIL SPILL, AND THE INSPIRING STORY OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST ANIMAL RESCUE by Dyan deNapoli
- THE SHARK AND THE ALBATROSS: A WILDLIFE FILMMAKER REVEALS WHY NATURE MATTERS TO US ALL by John Aitchison
- A SEA OF TROUBLES by Donna Leon
- BEAUTIFUL MINDS: THE PARALLEL LIVES OF GREAT APES AND DOLPHINS by Maddalena Bearzi and Craig B. Stanford
- THE SPORT OF KINGS by C. E. Morgan*
- FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES by Donna Leon
- THE WAY TO THE SALT MARSH: A JOHN HAY READER edited by Christopher Merrill
- AMONG PENGUINS: A BIRD MAN IN ANTARCTICA by Noah Strycker
- FATAL REMEDIES by Donna Leon
- VOICES IN THE OCEAN: A JOURNEY INTO THE WILD AND HAUNTING WORLD OF DOLPHINS by Susan Casey
- IN SEARCH OF SMALL GODS by Jim Harrison
- BLUE HORSES by Mary Oliver
- THE BOTANY OF DESIRE: A PLANT'S-EYE VIEW OF THE WORLD by Michael Pollan
- A NOBLE RADIANCE by Donna Leon
- SHALER'S FISH by Helen Macdonald
- JUST LIFE by Neil Abramson
- THE DEATH OF FAITH by Donna Leon
- TO TOUCH A WILD DOLPHIN: A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY WITH THE SEA'S MOST INTELLIGENT CREATURES by Rachel Smolker
- CHASING KANGAROOS: A CONTINENT, A SCIENTIST, AND A SEARCH FOR THE WORLD'S MOST EXTRAORDINARY CREATURE by Tim Flannery
- WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR by Paul Kalanithi
- HOW THE DEAD DREAM by Lydia Millet
- FINDING YOURSELF IN THE KITCHEN: KITCHEN MEDITATIONS AND INSPIRED RECIPES FROM A MINDFUL COOK by Dana Velden
- "Tail of Vengeance" by Spencer Quinn
- THRIVE by Arianna Huffington*
- GUITAR ZERO: THE NEW MUSICIAN AND THE SCIENCE OF LEARNING by Gary Marcus
- ARF by Spencer Quinn
- IMAGINE ME GONE by Adam Haslett
- ACQUA ALTA by Donna Leon
- THE OPPOSITE OF LIGHT by Kimberly Grey
- TRAMPOLINE by Robert Gipe
- WILD: FROM LOST TO FOUND ON THE PACIFIC COAST TRAIL by Cheryl Strayed
- THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY by Rachel Joyce
- ONE WILD BIRD AT A TIME: PORTRAITS OF INDIVIDUAL LIVES by Bernd Heinrich
- HALLUCINATIONS by Oliver Sacks
- SPEAKING OUT FOR ANIMALS: TRUE STORIES ABOUT REAL PEOPLE WHO RESCUE ANIMALS edited by Kim W. Stallwood
- LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN by Colum McCann
- SPILL SIMMER FALTER WITHER by Sara Baume
- PAX by Sara Pennypacker
- THE LOST GRIZZLIES: A SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS IN THE WILDERNESS OF COLORADO by Rick Bass
- I MUST BE LIVING TWICE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Eileen Myles*
- DEATH AND JUDGMENT by Donna Leon
- LINDA MCCARTNEY: LIFE IN PHOTOGRAPHS
- FLASH: THE HOMELESS DONKEY WHO TAUGHT ME ABOUT LIFE, FAITH, AND SECOND CHANCES by Rachel Anne Ridge*
- BEAR: SPIRIT OF THE WILD by Paul Nicklen
- DEAREST CREATURE by Amy Gerstler
- WRITING DOWN THE BONES: FREEING THE WRITER WITHIN by Natalie Goldberg
- LEAF by Daishu Ma
- TALKING INTO THE EAR OF A DONKEY by Robert Bly
- THE WILD IRIS by Louise Glück
- ONE MAN'S OWL by Bernd Heinrich
- DRESSED FOR DEATH by Donna Leon
- SEPARATE LIFETIMES by Irving Townsend
- DEATH IN A STRANGE COUNTRY by Donna Leon
- THE SELECTED POEMS OF DONALD HALL by Donald Hall
- MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON by Elizabeth Strout
- THE AGE OF EMPATHY: NATURE'S LESSONS FOR A KINDER SOCIETY by Frans de Waal
- PARTICULARLY CATS...AND RUFUS by Doris Lessing
- BLUE NIGHTS by Joan Didion
- HONEYDEW by Edith Pearlman
- DEATH AT LA FENICE by Donna Leon
- THE UNDERPAINTER by Jane Urquhart
- THE DIVINE LIFE OF ANIMALS: ONE MAN'S QUEST TO DISCOVER WHETHER THE SOULS OF ANIMALS LIVE ON by Ptolemy Tompkins
- TWO DOGS AND A PARROT: WHAT OUR ANIMAL FRIENDS CAN TEACH US ABOUT LIFE by Joan Chittister
- MARTIN MARTEN by Brian Doyle
- FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies
- TWIGS & KNUCKLEBONES by Sarah Lindsay
- THE INTIMATE APE: ORANGUTANS AND THE SECRET LIFE OF A VANISHING SPECIES by Shawn Thompson
- THE ADVENTURES OF BEEKLE: THE UNIMAGINARY FRIEND by Dan Santat
Books and Short Works Read in 2015
- LETTERS FROM EDEN: A YEAR AT HOME, IN THE WOODS by Julie Zickefoose
- DON'T CRY by Mary Gaitskill*
- CRENSHAW by Katherine Applegate
- THE PARROT WHO OWNS ME: THE STORY OF A RELATIONSHIP by Joanna Burger
- "Santa 365" by Spencer Quinn
- THE LEMON TABLE by Julian Barnes
- THE STORIED LIFE OF A.J. FIKRY by Gabrielle Zevin
- THE GIVENNESS OF THINGS: ESSAYS by Marilynne Robinson
- MISTER PENNY'S RACE HORSE by Marie Hall Ets
- STUART LITTLE by E. B. White
- MINDING ANIMALS: AWARENESS, EMOTIONS, AND HEART by Marc Bekoff
- FELICITY by Mary Oliver
- THE MAN WHO TALKS TO DOGS: THE STORY OF RANDY GRIM AND HIS FIGHT TO SAVE AMERICA'S ABANDONED DOGS by Melinda Roth
- GEORGE THE DOG, JOHN THE ARTIST: A RESCUE STORY by John Dolan
- THE GREAT ANIMAL ORCHESTRA: FINDING THE ORIGINS OF MUSIC IN THE WORLD'S WILD PLACES by Bernie Krause
- THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING by Colum McCann
- SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED: A JOURNAL OF MY SON'S FIRST SON by Anne Lamott with Sam Lamott
- BLUE HORSES by Mary Oliver
- THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2015 edited by Ariel Levy
- WHEN THE HORSES WHISPER: THE WISDOM OF WISE AND SENTIENT BEINGS by Rosalyn W. Berne
- CULTIVATING DELIGHT: A NATURAL HISTORY OF MY GARDEN by Diane Ackerman
- MADNESS, RACK, AND HONEY: COLLECTED LECTURES by Mary Ruefle
- BREEZEWAY by John Ashbery
- FOOD RULES: AN EATER'S MANUAL by Michael Pollan
- KIND by Gretchen Primack
- ONLY THE ANIMALS by Ceridwen Dovey
- BRIGHT DEAD THINGS by Ada Limón
- LET'S TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME by Gail Caldwell
- ERRATIC FACTS by Kay Ryan
- THE NATURE OF THE BEAST by Louise Penny
- MY FEELINGS by Nick Flynn
- HOW TO BE A (BAD) BIRDWATCHER by Simon Barnes
- (—) [my-ness] by Jane Hirshfield
- ANY HUMAN HEART by William Boyd
- TERRAPIN AND OTHER POEMS by Wendell Berry
- THE SECRET LIFE OF DOG CATCHERS by Shirley Zindler
- THE NAMES OF BIRDS by Tom Crawford
- GIRL WAITS WITH GUN by Amy Stewart
- WHY LOOK AT ANIMALS? by John Berger
- H IS FOR HAWK by Helen Macdonald
- AMERICAN PRIMITIVE by Mary Oliver
- THAT QUAIL, ROBERT by Margaret A. Stanger
- WHO LET THE DOG OUT? by David Rosenfelt
- BEYOND WORDS: WHAT ANIMALS THINK AND FEEL by Carl Safina
- ZOOLOGIES: ON ANIMALS AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT by Alison Hawthorne Deming
- SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh*
- OFF THE BEATEN PATH: STORIES OF PLACE from The Nature Conservancy
- THE POET AND THE DONKEY by May Sarton
- PLEASURABLE KINGDOM: ANIMALS AND THE NATURE OF FEELING GOOD by Jonathan Balcombe
- SCENTS AND SENSIBILITY by Spencer Quinn
- BEASTS: WHAT ANIMALS CAN TEACH US ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF GOOD AND EVIL by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
- JOURNAL OF A SOLITUDE by May Sarton
- THE SIXTH EXTINCTION: AN UNNATURAL HISTORY by Elizabeth Kolbert
- FIRST FLIGHT: A MOTHER HUMMINGBIRD'S STORY by Noriko and Don Carroll
- FREE PLAY: IMPROVISATION IN LIFE AND ART by Stephen Nachmanovitch*
- ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE by Anthony Doerr
- THE GOLDFINCH by Donna Tartt
- THE LONG WAY HOME by Louise Penny
- THE COWS by Lydia Davis
- WHAT COMES NEXT AND HOW TO LIKE IT by Abigail Thomas
- NAMING NATURE: THE CLASH BETWEEN INSTINCT AND SCIENCE by Carol Kaesuk Yoon
- HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN by Louise Penny
- THE BEAUTIFUL MYSTERY by Louise Penny
- TWO edited by Ann Patchett
- WOOF by Spencer Quinn
- THE PERFECT WRONG NOTE: LEARNING TO TRUST YOUR MUSICAL SELF by William Westney
- WE MAMMALS IN HOSPITABLE TIMES by Jynne Dilling Martin
- A TRICK OF THE LIGHT by Louise Penny
- THE WHEELING YEAR by Ted Kooser
- BEAUTIFUL JIM KEY: THE LOST HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S SMARTEST HORSE by Mim Eichler Rivas
- THIS PRESENT MOMENT by Gary Snyder
- HOW THE BODY KNOWS ITS MIND by Sian Beilock
- SMALL VICTORIES: SPOTTING IMPROBABLE MOMENTS OF GRACE by Anne Lamott
- THE BEAUTY by Jane Hirshfield
- BIRDS OF A LESSER PARADISE by Megan Mayhew Bergman
- THE MOTH edited by Catherine Burns
- UNCHOPPING A TREE by W. S. Merwin
- TEN MILLION ALIENS: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE ENTIRE ANIMAL KINGDOM by Simon Barnes
- HERBACEOUS by Paul Evans
- SAVING SIMON: HOW A RESCUE DONKEY TAUGHT ME THE MEANING OF COMPASSION by Jon Katz
- ALL MY PUNY SORROWS by Miriam Toews
- BURY YOUR DEAD by Louise Penny
- MAKING NICE by Matt Sumell
- THE EMPATHY EXAMS by Leslie Jamison
- A NEW SELECTED POEMS by Galway Kinnell
- DISTANT NEIGHBORS: THE SELECTED LETTERS OF WENDELL BERRY AND GARY SNYDER edited by Chad Wriglesworth
- GABRIEL: A POEM by Edward Hirsch
- ALEX & ME: HOW A SCIENTIST AND A PARROT DISCOVERED A HIDDEN WORLD OF ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE—AND FORMED A DEEP BOND IN THE PROCESS by Irene Pepperberg
- THE BRUTAL TELLING by Louise Penny
- ARNIE & A HOUSE FULL OF COMPANY by Margarete Sigl Corbo and Diane Marie Barras
- HOLY COW by David Duchovny
- THE CRANE WIFE by Patrick Ness
- PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A WHITE PIG: POEMS by Jane Gentry
- NOBODY HOME: WRITING, BUDDHISM, AND LIVING IN PLACES by Gary Snyder in conversation with Julia Martin
- THE THIRD ELEVATOR by Aimee Bender
- TIME AND THE TILTING EARTH by Miller Williams
- WHY I CAME WEST by Rick Bass
- CROSSING TO SAFETY by Wallace Stegner
- ARNIE, THE DARLING STARLING by Margarete Sigl Corbo and Diane Marie Barras
- WINTER BEES & OTHER POEMS OF THE COLD by Joyce Sidman and Rick Allen
- HARLOW & SAGE (AND INDIANA): A TRUE STORY ABOUT BEST FRIENDS by Brittni Vega
Books and Short Works Read in 2014
- MUIR AMONG THE ANIMALS: THE WILDLIFE WRITINGS OF JOHN MUIR edited by Lisa Mighetto
- NOBODY'S HORSES: THE DRAMATIC RESCUE OF THE WILD HERD OF WHITE SANDS by Don Höglund
- THE SHADOW OF THE WIND by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- THE BEST OF IT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Kay Ryan
- ANIMAL WISE: THE THOUGHTS AND EMOTIONS OF OUR FELLOW CREATURES by Virginia Morell
- ANIMAL HAPPINESS by Vicki Hearne
- AMAZING PEACE: A CHRISTMAS POEM by Maya Angelou
- LILA by Marilynne Robinson
- GLITTER BOMB by Aaron Belz
- JUST MERCY: A STORY OF JUSTICE AND REDEMPTION by Bryan Stevenson
- THE FARAWAY NEARBY by Rebecca Solnit
- ONCE IN THE WEST by Christian Wiman
- THE SISTERS ANTIPODES by Jane Alison
- AFTER by Jane Hirshfield
- THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE by Neil Gaiman
- THE INFINITESIMALS by Laura Kasischke
- A RULE AGAINST MURDER by Louise Penny
- BRIGHT WINGS: AN ILLUSTRATED ANTHOLOGY OF POEMS ABOUT BIRDS edited by Billy Collins
- 100 HEARTBEATS: THE RACE TO SAVE EARTH'S MOST ENDANGERED SPECIES by Jeff Corwin
- SADDLED: HOW A SPIRITED HORSE REINED ME IN AND SET ME FREE by Susan Richards*
- COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI AND HIS YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE by Haruki Murakami
- FINDING BEAUTY IN A BROKEN WORLD by Terry Tempest Williams
- SELECTED POEMS by Robert Pinsky
- EATING STONE: IMAGINATION AND THE LOSS OF THE WILD by Ellen Meloy
- HOUNDED by David Rosenfelt
- EVER BY MY SIDE: A MEMOIR IN EIGHT [ACTS] PETS by Nick Trout
- THE CRUELEST MONTH by Louise Penny
- TOTAL RECOVERY: SOLVING THE MYSTERY OF CHRONIC PAIN AND DEPRESSION by Gary Kaplan with Donna Beech
- A FATAL GRACE by Louise Penny
- SILENCE OF THE SONGBIRDS by Bridget Stutchbury
- DOGS IN BOOKS: A CELEBRATION OF DOG ILLUSTRATION THROUGH THE AGES by Catherine Britton
- JACK AND OTHER NEW POEMS by Maxine Kumin
- SAVING GRACIE: HOW ONE DOG ESCAPED THE SHADOWY WORLD OF AMERICAN PUPPY MILLS by Carol Bradley
- PAW AND ORDER by Spencer Quinn
- THE VIEW FROM LAZY POINT: A NATURAL YEAR IN AN UNNATURAL WORLD by Carl Safina
- HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET by Jamie Ford
- THE DELETED WORLD by Tomas Transtromer
- THE MOUNTAINTOP SCHOOL FOR DOGS AND OTHER SECOND CHANCES by Ellen Cooney
- DOG GONE, BACK SOON by Nick Trout
- FACE by Sherman Alexie
- THE SILENT WIFE by A. S. A. Harrison
- DEBT TO THE BONE-EATING SNOTFLOWER by Sarah Lindsay
- WESLEY THE OWL: THE REMARKABLE LOVE STORY OF AN OWL AND HIS GIRL by Stacey O'Brien
- STILL LIFE by Louise Penny
- THE THING WITH FEATHERS: THE SURPRISING LIVES OF BIRDS AND WHAT THEY REVEAL ABOUT BEING HUMAN by Noah Strycker
- CLAIMING GROUND by Laura Bell
- 3 SELECTIONS by Vijay Seshadri
- CAN'T AND WON'T by Lydia Davis
- WONDER by R. J. Palacio
- THE LIGHTKEEPERS' MENAGERIE: STORIES OF ANIMALS AT LIGHTHOUSES by Elinor De Wire
- THE UNCOMMON APPEAL OF CLOUDS by Alexander McCall Smith
- AND SHORT THE SEASON: POEMS by Maxine Kumin
- BROKEN VESSELS by Andre Dubus
- THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2013
- ALL THE RAGE by A. L. Kennedy*
- DOGTRIPPING: 25 RESCUES, 11 VOLUNTEERS, AND 3 RVS ON OUR CANINE CROSS-COUNTRY ADVENTURE by David Rosenfelt
- ASK THE COW: A GENTLE GUIDE TO FINDING PEACE by Rita M. Reynolds
- MORNINGS LIKE THIS: FOUND POEMS by Annie Dillard
- HOPE ON EARTH: A CONVERSATION by Paul R. Ehrlich & Michael Charles Tobias
- THE FORGOTTEN AFFAIRS OF YOUTH by Alexander McCall Smith
- THE TAO OF EQUUS by Linda Kohanov
- THE LIKENESS by Tana French
- MY GENTLE BARN: CREATING A SANCTUARY WHERE ANIMALS HEAL AND CHILDREN LEARN TO HOPE by Ellie Laks
- THE SECRETS OF LOST CATS: ONE WOMAN, TWENTY POSTERS, AND A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF LOVE by Nancy Davidson
- "Dreaming Elands" by Peter Steinhart
- THE CHARMING QUIRKS OF OTHERS by Alexander McCall Smith
- "Rain and the Rhinoceros" by Thomas Merton
- "Animal Rights and Beyond" by David Quammen
- THE MOON BEFORE MORNING by W. S. Merwin
- "A Slight Sound at Evening" by E. B. White
- A DOG WALKS INTO A NURSING HOME: LESSONS IN THE GOOD LIFE FROM AN UNLIKELY TEACHER by Sue Halpern
- SELECTED POEMS by Emily Dickinson
- WHERE I LIVE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1990–2010 by Maxine Kumin
- THE BOOKSTORE by Deborah Meyler
- THE GHOST HORSE: A TRUE STORY OF LOVE, DEATH, AND REDEMPTION by Joe Layden
- THE PLOVER by Brian Doyle
- THE LOST ART OF GRATITUDE by Alexander McCall Smith
- DUNCAN THE WONDER DOG by Adam Hines
- THE GHOST WITH TREMBLING WINGS: SCIENCE, WISHFUL THINKING, AND THE SEARCH FOR LOST SPECIES by Scott Weidensaul
- HAIKU: THIS OTHER WORLD by Richard Wright
- THE COMFORTS OF A MUDDY SATURDAY by Alexander McCall Smith
- DANGER ON PEAKS by Gary Snyder
- WHITE PINE by Mary Oliver
- THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS by M. L. Stedman
- KEHUA! by Fay Weldon
- AMAZING GRACIE: A DOG'S TALE by Dan Dye and Mark Beckloff
- WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES by Karen Joy Fowler
- EVIDENCE by Mary Oliver
- WEEKENDS WITH DAISY by Sharron Kahn Luttrell
- ASUNDER by Chloe Aridjis
- APPALACHIAN ELEGY: POETRY AND PLACE by bell hooks
- UNLEASHED by David Rosenfelt
- AMY FALLS DOWN by Jincy Willett
- THE TENTH GOOD THING ABOUT BARNEY by Judith Viorst
- JANE, THE FOX & ME by Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault
- FOUND DOGS: TALES OF STRAYS WHO LANDED ON THEIR FEET by Elise Lufkin
- THE LOWLAND by Jhumpa Lahiri
- THE CLASSIC TRADITION OF HAIKU: AN ANTHOLOGY edited by Faubion Bowers
- THE LEADING LADY: DINAH'S STORY by Betty White and Tom Sullivan
- KINDRED SPIRITS: HOW THE REMARKABLE BOND BETWEEN HUMANS AND ANIMALS CAN CHANGE THE WAY WE LIVE by Allen M. Schoen
- THIS IS THE STORY OF A HAPPY MARRIAGE by Ann Patchett
- HAIKU IN ENGLISH: THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS edited by Jim Kacian, Philip Rowland, and Allan Burns
- MONUMENT ROAD by Charlie Quimby
- EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED FROM A LITTLE GOLDEN BOOK by Diane Muldrow
- HYPERBOLE AND A HALF: UNFORTUNATE SITUATIONS, FLAWED COPING MECHANISMS, MAYHEM, AND OTHER THINGS THAT HAPPENED by Allie Brosh
- BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS by Dai Sijie
- DOG SONGS by Mary Oliver
- THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN by Katherine Applegate
Books and Short Works Read in 2013
- THE STORYTELLER by Mario Vargas Llosa*
- ELEPHAS MAXIMUS: A PORTRAIT OF THE INDIAN ELEPHANT by Stephen Alter
- THE ANIMAL DIALOGUES: UNCOMMON ENCOUNTERS IN THE WILD by Craig Childs
- THE CAREFUL USE OF COMPLIMENTS by Alexander McCall Smith
- STITCHES: A HANDBOOK ON MEANING, HOPE AND REPAIR by Anne Lamott
- THE DOG WHO CAME TO STAY by Hal Borland
- "A Child's Christmas in Wales" by Dylan Thomas
- "A Christmas Memory" by Truman Capote
- LEADER OF THE PACK by David Rosenfelt
- A SECRET GIFT: HOW ONE MAN'S KINDNESS—AND A TROVE OF LETTERS—REVEALED THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION by Ted Gup
- PEACE OF MIND: BECOMING FULLY PRESENT by Thich Nhat Hanh
- AIMLESS LOVE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Billy Collins
- I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD: A LOVE STORY by Pete Nelson
- URBAN NATURE: POEMS ABOUT WILDLIFE IN THE CITY edited by Laure-Anne Bosselaar
- COME BACK, COMO: WINNING THE HEART OF A RELUCTANT DOG by Steven Winn
- A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING by Ruth Ozeki
- THE PARROT WHO THOUGHT SHE WAS A DOG by Nancy Ellis-Bell
- JOURNEY OF THE PINK DOLPHINS: AN AMAZON QUEST by Sy Montgomery
- THE LACUNA by Barbara Kingsolver
- A DOG CALLED PERTH: THE TRUE STORY OF A BEAGLE by Peter Martin
- THE WORLD ACCORDING TO DOG by Joyce Sidman
- SANCTUARY LINE by Jane Urquhart
- MAN AND CAMEL by Mark Strand
- TO THE RESCUE: FOUND DOGS WITH A MISSION by Elise Lufkin
- DEWEY'S NINE LIVES: THE LEGACY OF THE SMALL-TOWN LIBRARY CAT WHO INSPIRED MILLIONS by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
- GHOST DOGS OF THE SOUTH by Randy Russell and Janet Barnett
- FOR BEA by Kristin von Kreisler
- STRUTTERS & FRETTERS by William Steig
- THE BURGESS BOYS by Elizabeth Strout
- THE SOUND AND THE FURRY by Spencer Quinn
- BIRDSONG: A NATURAL HISTORY by Don Stap
- DOG TAGS by David Rosenfelt
- "The Iggy Chronicles, Volume 1" by Spencer Quinn
- BEST FRIENDS: THE TRUE STORY OF THE WORLD'S MOST BELOVED ANIMAL SANCTUARY by Samantha Glen
- AMPLITUDE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Tess Gallagher
- THE RIGHT ATTITUDE TO RAIN by Alexander McCall Smith
- HORSE PEOPLE: WRITERS AND ARTISTS ON THE HORSES THEY LOVE edited by Michael J. Rosen
- WHAT THE DOG DID: TALES FROM A FORMERLY RELUCTANT DOG OWNER by Emily Yoffe
- DAWN LIGHT: DANCING WITH CRANES AND OTHER WAYS TO START THE DAY by Diane Ackerman
- MR. PENUMBRA'S 24-HOUR BOOKSTORE by Robin Sloan
- HOOF PRINTS: MORE STORIES FROM PROUD SPIRIT by Melanie Sue Bowles
- SAVED: RESCUED ANIMALS AND THE LIVES THEY TRANSFORM by Karen Winegar
- LIFE AFTER LIFE by Kate Atkinson
- RESCUING SPRITE: A DOG LOVER'S STORY OF JOY AND ANGUISH by Mark Levin
- GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn
- KISSED BY A FOX: AND OTHER STORIES OF FRIENDSHIP IN NATURE by Priscilla Stuckey
- FRIENDS, LOVERS, CHOCOLATE by Alexander McCall Smith
- THE PARROT'S LAMENT by Eugene Linden
- OTHERWISE: NEW & SELECTED POEMS by Jane Kenyon
- OCTOPUS: THE OCEAN'S INTELLIGENT INVERTEBRATE by Jennifer A. Mather, Roland C. Anderson, and James B. Wood
- THE SUNDAY PHILOSOPHY CLUB by Alexander McCall Smith
- GETTING LUCKY: HOW ONE SPECIAL DOG FOUND LOVE AND A SECOND CHANCE AT ANGEL'S GATE by Susan Marino with Denise Flaim
- ANOTHER INSANE DEVOTION: ON THE LOVE OF CATS AND PERSONS by Peter Trachtenberg
- SNAPPER by Brian Kimberling
- TOLSTOY AND THE PURPLE CHAIR: MY YEAR OF MAGICAL READING by Nina Sankovitch
- NEW TRICKS by David Rosenfelt
- OF MOOSE AND MEN: A WILDLIFE VET'S PURSUIT OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST DEER by Jerry Haigh
- PLAY DEAD by David Rosenfelt
- SPILLVILLE by Patricia Hampl
- DEAD CENTER by David Rosenfelt
- NEVER HAVE YOUR DOG STUFFED AND OTHER THINGS I'VE LEARNED by Alan Alda
- THE TRURO BEAR AND OTHER ADVENTURES by Mary Oliver
- ON LOOKING: ELEVEN WALKS WITH EXPERT EYES by Alexandra Horowitz
- THE LANGUAGE OF MIRACLES by Amelia Kinkade
- FALLING FOR ELI: HOW I LOST HEART, THEN GAINED HOPE THROUGH THE LOVE OF A SINGULAR HORSE by Nancy Shulins
- THE $60,000 DOG: MY LIFE WITH ANIMALS by Lauren Slater
- THE DEATH OF BEES by Lisa O'Donnell
- WHAT ANIMALS TELL ME by Monica Diedrich
- A GAP IN NATURE: DISCOVERING THE WORLD’S EXTINCT ANIMALS by Tim Flannery and Peter Schouten
- SUDDEN DEATH by David Rosenfelt
- ECOPOETRY ANTHOLOGY edited by Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street
- IF ONLY THEY COULD TALK: THE MIRACLES OF SPRING FARM by Bonnie Jones Reynolds and Dawn E. Hayman
- THE BLESSINGS OF THE ANIMALS by Katrina Kittle
- THE OCTOPUS AND THE ORANGUTAN: MORE TRUE TALES OF ANIMAL INTRIGUE, INTELLIGENCE, AND INGENUITY by Eugene Linden
- GUARDIANS OF BEING by Eckhart Tolle and Patrick McDonnell
- ANIMALS AS GUIDES FOR THE SOUL: STORIES OF LIFE-CHANGING ENCOUNTERS by Susan Chernak McElroy
- ME BEFORE YOU by Jojo Moyes
- SHOUTING WON’T HELP: WHY I—AND 50 MILLION OTHER AMERICANS—CAN’T HEAR YOU by Katherine Bouton
- ALL MEN ARE LIARS by Alberto Manguel
- THE PATRON SAINT OF LOST DOGS by Nick Trout
- RED BIRD by Mary Oliver
- BURY THE LEAD by David Rosenfelt
- NEVER LOOK A POLAR BEAR IN THE EYE: A FAMILY FIELD TRIP TO THE ARCTIC'S EDGE IN SEARCH OF ADVENTURE, TRUTH, AND MINI-MARSHMALLOWS by Zac Unger
- "Deep Intellect: Inside the Mind of the Octopus" by Sy Montgomery
- SANCTUARY: PORTRAITS OF RESCUED FARM ANIMALS by Sharon Lee Hart
- ANIMALS AS TEACHERS AND HEALERS: TRUE STORIES AND REFLECTIONS by Susan Chernak McElroy
- THE STILL POINT OF THE TURNING WORLD by Emily Rapp
- THE BIG NEW YORKER BOOK OF DOGS
- THE LEAF AND THE CLOUD by Mary Oliver
- A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING by Bill Bryson
- BABYLON'S ARK: THE INCREDIBLE WARTIME RESCUE OF THE BAGHDAD ZOO by Lawrence Anthony with Graham Spence
- FLIGHT BEHAVIOR by Barbara Kingsolver
- WHAT I DON'T KNOW ABOUT ANIMALS by Jenny Diski
- GOOD PROSE: THE ART OF NONFICTION by Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd
- HEART IN THE WILD: A JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY WITH ANIMALS OF THE WILDERNESS by Susan Chernak McElroy
- THE HORSES OF PROUD SPIRIT by Melanie Sue Bowles
- "A Textbook Place for Bears" by John McPhee
- LITTLE BOY BLUE: A PUPPY'S RESCUE FROM DEATH ROW AND HIS OWNER'S JOURNEY FOR TRUTH by Kim Kavin
- FIRST DEGREE by David Rosenfelt
- BETHLEHEM IN BROAD DAYLIGHT by Mark Doty
- HELP THANKS WOW: THE THREE ESSENTIAL PRAYERS by Anne Lamott
- GRAYSON by Lynne Cox
Books and Short Works Read in 2012
- A THOUSAND MORNINGS by Mary Oliver
- TURTLE, SWAN by Mark Doty
- THE CAT WHO CAME BACK FOR CHRISTMAS: HOW A CAT BROUGHT A FAMILY THE GIFT OF LOVE by Julia Romp
- YOU HAD ME AT WOOF: HOW DOGS TAUGHT ME THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS by Julie Klam
- A HUMMINGBIRD IN MY HOUSE: THE STORY OF SQUEAK by Arnette Heidcamp
- HOMER'S ODYSSEY: A FEARLESS FELINE TALE, OR HOW I LEARNED ABOUT LOVE AND LIFE WITH A BLIND WONDER CAT by Gwen Cooper
- ATTRACTING SONGBIRDS TO YOUR BACKYARD by Sally Roth
- SHEPHERDS OF COYOTE ROCKS: PUBLIC LANDS, PRIVATE HERDS AND THE NATURAL WORLD by Cat Urbigkit
- "Wild Things: Animal Nature, Human Racism, and the Future of Zoos" by David Samuels
- DOGS HAVE THE STRANGEST FRIENDS & OTHER TRUE STORIES OF ANIMAL FEELINGS by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
- "Under the Snow" by John McPhee
- THE COMPASSION OF ANIMALS by Kristin von Kreisler
- HOUSEKEEPING by Marilynne Robinson
- MY EDITOR by M. B. Goffstein
- MY BABY BLUE JAYS by John Berendt
- A FISTFUL OF COLLARS by Spencer Quinn
- TALKING WITH HORSES by Henry Blake
- RABID: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S MOST DIABOLICAL VIRUS by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy
- "True Short Story" by Ali Smith
- ONE DOG NIGHT by David Rosenfelt
- "The Child" by Ali Smith
- "Present" by Ali Smith
- FOLLOWING ATTICUS: FORTY-EIGHT HIGH PEAKS, ONE LITTLE DOG, AND AN EXTRAORDINARY FRIENDSHIP by Tom Ryan
- IN THE SKIN OF A LION by Michael Ondaatje
- HOW TO THINK LIKE A HORSE: THE ESSENTIAL HANDBOOK FOR UNDERSTANDING WHY HORSES DO WHAT THEY DO by Cherry Hill
- THE SECRET LIFE OF COWS by Rosamund Young
- THE NOBODIES ALBUM by Carolyn Parkhurst
- "A Cat Was Involved" by Spencer Quinn
- A PRACTICAL FIELD GUIDE TO HORSE BEHAVIOR: THE EQUID ETHOGRAM by Sue McDonnell
- BIRDOLOGY by Sy Montgomery
- THE LIVES OF ANIMALS by J. M. Coetzee
- GIVEN by Wendell Berry
- "People and Animals" from MORAL QUESTIONS by Rush Rhees
- ENTRIES by Wendell Berry
- WILLFUL BEHAVIOR by Donna Leon
- THE WHEEL by Wendell Berry
- A PART by Wendell Berry
- CLEARING by Wendell Berry
- PILATES ON THE MAT by Karon Karter
- THE COUNTRY OF MARRIAGE by Wendell Berry
- THE INNER WORLD OF FARM ANIMALS: THEIR AMAZING SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, AND INTELLECTUAL CAPACITIES by Amy Hatkoff
- FARMING: A HAND BOOK by Wendell Berry
- THE NINE EMOTIONAL LIVES OF CATS: A JOURNEY INTO THE FELINE HEART by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
- OPENINGS by Wendell Berry
- THE PHILOSOPHER'S DOG: FRIENDSHIPS WITH ANIMALS by Raimond Gaita
- FINDINGS by Wendell Berry
- THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY: MURDER, MAGIC, AND THE MADNESS AT THE FAIR THAT CHANGED AMERICA by Erik Larson
- THE BROKEN GROUND by Wendell Berry
- ONE GOOD DOG by Susan Wilson
- THE LIGHT IN HIGH PLACES: A NATURALIST LOOKS AT WYOMING WILDERNESS, ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIGHORN SHEEP, COWBOYS, AND OTHER RARE SPECIES by Joe Hutto
- GIFTS OF THE CROW: HOW PERCEPTION, EMOTION, AND THOUGHT ALLOW SMART BIRDS TO BEHAVE LIKE HUMANS by John Marzluff and Tony Angell
- WISDOM OF OUR FATHERS: LESSONS AND LETTERS FROM DAUGHTERS AND SONS by Tim Russert
- A WORLD OF LIGHT by Floyd Skloot
- DEWEY: THE SMALL-TOWN CAT WHO TOUCHED THE WORLD by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
- OPEN AND SHUT by David Rosenfelt
- THE RESCUE OF BELLE & SUNDANCE: ONE TOWN'S INCREDIBLE RACE TO SAVE TWO ABANDONED HORSES by Birgit Stutz and Lawrence Scanlan
- EMOTIONALLY WEIRD by Kate Atkinson
- IN THE SHADOW OF MEMORY by Floyd Skloot
- ANIMAL LOVERS' BEDTIME READER by Sue Greenall
- THE DOG WHO LOVED TOO MUCH: TALES, TREATMENTS, AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DOGS by Nicholas Dodman
- CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE HORSE LOVER'S SOUL
- DOG IS MY CO-PILOT: GREAT WRITERS ON THE WORLD'S OLDEST FRIENDSHIP from the Editors of The BARK
- THE DOG WHO KNEW TOO MUCH by Spencer Quinn
- THE MIND'S EYE by Oliver Sacks
- BULU: AFRICAN WONDER DOG by Dick Houston
- THE SOUND OF A WILD SNAIL EATING by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
- THE PUPPY DIARIES: RAISING A DOG NAMED SCOUT by Jill Abramson
- ALL MY DOGS: A LIFE by Bill Henderson
- TO FETCH A THIEF by Spencer Quinn
- A YEAR AT THE RACES: REFLECTIONS ON HORSES, HUMANS, LOVE, MONEY, AND LUCK by Jane Smiley
- WHAT THE ANIMALS TAUGHT ME by Stephanie Marohn
- CAT WOMEN: FEMALE WRITERS ON THEIR FELINE FRIENDS edited by Megan Morris
- DOG ON IT by Spencer Quinn
- 420 CHARACTERS by Lou Beach
- THE SOCIOPATH NEXT DOOR:THE RUTHLESS VERSUS THE REST OF US by Martha Stout
- THEREBY HANGS A TAIL by Spencer Quinn
- WHY I WAKE EARLY by Mary Oliver
- BARN BLIND by Jane Smiley
- THE CALL by Yannick Murphy
- WHOSE WORLD IS THIS? by Lee Montgomery
- SECOND CHANCES: INSPIRING STORIES OF DOG ADOPTION by Joan Banks
- THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- AN UNSPOKEN ART: PROFILES OF VETERINARY LIFE by Lee Gutkind
- REASON FOR HOPE: A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY by Jane Goodall
- MAKING ROUNDS WITH OSCAR: THE EXTRAORDINARY GIFT OF AN ORDINARY CAT by David Dosa
- ANIMAL CAMP: LESSONS IN LOVE AND HOPE FROM RESCUED FARM ANIMALS by Kathy Stevens
- THE LOST PET CHRONICLES: ADVENTURES OF A K-9 COP TURNED PET DETECTIVE by Kat Albrecht
- HORSE PEOPLE: SCENES FROM THE RIDING LIFE by Michael Korda
- HEAD OFF & SPLIT by Nikky Finney
- THREE BAGS FULL: A SHEEP DETECTIVE STORY by Leonie Swann
Books and Short Works (since June) Read in 2011
- "Nothing of Consequence" by Jane Delury
- "Pole, Pole" by Susan Minot
- "The Black Square" by Chris Adrian
- A CIRCLE OF QUIET by Madeleine L'Engle
- A SMALL FURRY PRAYER: DOG RESCUE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE by Steven Kotler
- ABOUT GRIEF: INSIGHTS, SETBACKS, GRACE NOTES, TABOOS by Ron Marasco and Brian Shuff
- ANIMAL SENSE by Diane Ackerman
- ANIMALS MAKE US HUMAN: CREATING THE BEST LIFE FOR ANIMALS by Temple Grandin
- BIRD CLOUD by Annie Proulx
- BLOOD HORSES: NOTES OF A SPORTSWRITER'S SON by John Jeremiah Sullivan
- BLOODLINES: A HORSE RACING ANTHOLOGY edited by Maggie Estep and Jason Starr
- CHANGING MY MIND: OCCASIONAL ESSAYS by Zadie Smith
- CHERISHED: 21 WRITERS ON ANIMALS THEY HAVE LOVED AND LOST
- CHRISTMAS DOGS: A LITERARY COMPANION
- DARKNESS INVISIBLE: A MEMOIR OF MADNESS by William Styron
- DOG POEMS edited by Myra Cohn Livingston
- DOGS I HAVE MET AND THE PEOPLE THEY FOUND by Ken Foster
- DOGS OF DREAMTIME by Karen Shanley
- EDGE OF TAOS DESERT: AN ESCAPE TO REALITY by Mabel Dodge Luhan
- FETCHING DYLAN: A TRUE TALE OF CANINE DOMESTICATION IN LEAPS AND BOUNDS by Stephen Foster
- HER FEARFUL SYMMETRY by Audrey Niffenegger
- HOOFPRINTS: HORSE POEMS by Jessie Haas
- HORSE HEAVEN by Jane Smiley
- HORSEPOWER: A MEMOIR by Annette Israel
- HORSERADISH: BITTER TRUTHS YOU CAN'T AVOID by Lemony Snicket
- HORSES NEVER LIE ABOUT LOVE by Jana Harris
- HOW ROCKET LEARNED TO READ by Tad Hills
- HOW TO WRITE A SENTENCE AND HOW TO READ ONE by Stanley Fish
- I FEEL BAD ABOUT MY NECK AND OTHER THOUGHTS ON BEING A WOMAN by Nora Ephron
- ILLUMINATION IN THE FLATWOODS: A SEASON WITH THE WILD TURKEY by Joe Hutto
- INSIDE OF A DOG: WHAT DOGS SEE, SMELL, AND KNOW by Alexandra Horowitz
- ISAAC MURPHY: I DEDICATE THIS RIDE by Frank X Walker
- JOURNAL OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD
- JUSTIN MORGAN HAD A HORSE by Marguerite Henry
- LEAVINGS by Wendell Berry
- LETTERS FROM FATHER CHRISTMAS by J. R. R. Tolkien
- LIT by Mary Karr
- LOST AND FOUND by Jacqueline Sheehan
- NEWS FROM THE WORLD: STORIES AND ESSAYS by Paula Fox
- NINE HORSES by Billy Collins
- OLD POSSUM'S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS by T. S. Eliot
- OOGY: THE DOG ONLY A FAMILY COULD LOVE by Larry Levin
- OWLS AND OTHER FANTASIES: POEMS AND ESSAYS by Mary Oliver
- SAVING AUDIE: A PIT BULL PUPPY GETS A SECOND CHANCE by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
- SEEDS: ONE MAN'S SERENDIPITOUS JOURNEY TO FIND THE TREES THAT INSPIRED FAMOUS AMERICAN WRITERS by Richard Horan
- SEEK MY FACE by John Updike
- STARTED EARLY, TOOK MY DOG by Kate Atkinson
- SWAN: POEMS AND PROSE POEMS by Mary Oliver
- THE MARRIAGE PLOT by Jeffrey Eugenides
- THE ANIMAL RESCUE STORE by Elizabeth Swados
- THE ANNOTATED ALICE: THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE by Lewis Carroll and edited by Martin Gardner
- THE BOND: OUR KINSHIP WITH ANIMALS, OUR CALL TO DEFEND THEM by Wayne Pacelle
- THE BOY IN THE MOON: A FATHER'S JOURNEY TO UNDERSTAND HIS EXTRAORDINARY SON by Ian Brown
- THE CHILDREN'S BOOK by A. S. Byatt
- THE DOG DEPARTMENT: JAMES THURBER ON HOUNDS, SCOTTIES, AND TALKING POODLES by James Thurber
- THE DOGS OF BEDLAM FARM: AN ADVENTURE WITH SIXTEEN SHEEP, THREE DOGS, TWO DONKEYS, AND ME by Jon Katz
- THE EIGHTY-DOLLAR CHAMPION: SNOWMAN, THE HORSE THAT INSPIRED A NATION by Elizabeth Letts
- THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG by Muriel Barbery
- THE GOOD GOOD PIG: THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD by Sy Montgomery
- THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES: A FAMILY'S CENTURY OF ART AND LOSS by Edmund de Waal
- THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS by Rebecca Skloot
- THE INEVITABLE: CONTEMPORARY WRITERS CONFRONT DEATH edited by David Shields and Bradford Morrow
- THE PIG WHO SANG TO THE MOON: THE EMOTIONAL WORLD OF FARM ANIMALS by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
- THE SUNNY SIDE by A. A. Milne
- THE WRITING CLASS by Jincy Willett
- THINKING ABOUT MEMOIR by Abigail Thomas
- THIRST by Mary Oliver
- UNLEASHED: POEMS BY WRITERS' DOGS edited by Amy Hempel and Jim Shepard
- UNSAID by Neil Abramson
- WALKING OLLIE: OR, WINNING THE LOVE OF A DIFFICULT DOG by Stephen Foster
- WHAT THE DOG SAW by Malcolm Gladwell
- WHY WE RIDE: WOMEN WRITERS ON THE HORSES IN THEIR LIVES edited by Verna Dreisbach
- WOMAN'S BEST FRIEND: WOMEN WRITERS ON THE DOGS IN THEIR LIVES edited by Megan McMorris
- WOOF! WRITERS ON DOGS edited by Lee Montgomery
- WRITERS ON WRITING: COLLECTED ESSAYS FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES
- “A Triumph of Preservation” by Randy Fertel
- “Charging Lions” by Chester F. Phillips
- “Dog at Midlife” by Jeff Oaks
- “Dogs in the Dark” by Mike Land
- “How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped,” by Katherine Mansfield
- “Killing Starlings” by Kateri Kosek
- “Natural Selection” by Kelly Herbinson
- “New Dresses,” by Katherine Mansfield
- “Of Mice and Women” by Susan Cheever
- “Ole Underwood,” by Katherine Mansfield
- “Taking the Veil,” by Katherine Mansfield
- “The Butterfly Effect: Finding Sanctuary in Butterfly Town, USA” by Jennifer Lunden
- “The Canary,” by Katherine Mansfield
- “The Centaur” by Lauren Slater
- “The Fly,” by Katherine Mansfield
- “The Histories of Jacques Cousteau (A Fairytale of the Drowned)” by Tessa Fontaine
- “The Woman at the Store,” by Katherine Mansfield
Books Read In 2010 (February through December)
- A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh
- BLACK DOGS by Ian McEwan
- BLIND HOPE: AN UNWANTED DOG & THE WOMAN SHE RESCUED by Kim Meeder and Laurie Sacher
- BUFFALO FOR THE BROKEN HEART: RESTORING LIFE TO A BLACK HILLS RANCH by Dan O'Brien
- CALLINGS: FINDING AND FOLLOWING AN AUTHENTIC LIFE by Gregg Levoy
- CHOSEN BY A HORSE: A MEMOIR by Susan Richards
- DARK HORSES AND BLACK BEAUTIES: ANIMALS, WOMEN, A PASSION by Melissa Holbrook Pierson
- EPITAPH FOR A PEACH: FOUR SEASONS ON MY FAMILY FARM by David Mas Masumoto
- HOME: A NOVEL by Marilynne Robinson
- IRIS AND HER FRIENDS by John Bayley
- JENNY & THE JAWS OF LIFE by Jincy Willett
- LADDER OF YEARS by Anne Tyler
- LIGHTHOUSEKEEPING by Jeanette Winterson
- MERLE'S DOOR: LESSONS FROM A FREETHINKING DOG by Ted Kerasote
- MOO by Jane Smiley
- OLIVE KITTERIDGE by Elizabeth Strout
- SPIRIT HORSES by Tony Stromberg
- THE ANNOTATED ALICE: ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll and edited by Martin Gardner
- THE BELL by Iris Murdoch
- THE DOGS WHO FOUND ME: WHAT I'VE LEARNED FROM PETS WHO WERE LEFT BEHIND by Ken Foster
- THE GREATEST HORSE STORIES EVER TOLD edited by Steven D. Price
- THE HIDDEN LIFE OF DOGS by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
- THE LION'S SHARE by Kelly Tate and Jack Hanna
- THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy
- THE ZOOKEEPER'S WIFE by Diane Ackerman
- THINKING IN PICTURES by Temple Grandin
- WHERE THE BLIND HORSE SINGS by Kathy Stevens
Reading Through The Lull
- A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY by Kurt Vonnegut
- BEFORE WE GET STARTED: A PRACTICAL MEMOIR OF THE WRITER'S LIFE by Bret Lott
- DIVISADERO by Michael Ondaatje
- DOUBLE FOLD by Nicholson Baker
- EAT PRAY LOVE by Elizabeth Gilbert
- EVERYTHING THAT RISES: A BOOK OF CONVERGENCES by Lawrence Weschler
- FELICIA’S JOURNEY by William Trevor
- HIM HER HIM AGAIN THE END OF HIM by Patricia Marx
- INHERITANCE OF LOSS by Kiran Desai
- I’M NOT THE NEW ME by Wendy McClure
- JULIE & JULIA by Julie Powell
- KINSHIP WITH ANIMALS edited by Kate Solisti and Michael Tobias
- LIFE OF PI by Yann Martel
- MOTHER TONGUE: AN AMERICAN LIFE IN ITALY by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi
- MY NAME IS WILL by Jess Winfield
- NASH, RAMBLER by Frank Sennett
- ONE GOOD TURN by Kate Atkinson
- OTHER PEOPLE’S DIRT by Louise Rafkin
- OUTLIERS by Malcolm Gladwell
- PICASSO & LUMP: A DACHSHUND'S ODYSSEY by David Douglas Duncan
- SALT: A WORLD HISTORY by Mark Kurlansky
- SHAKESPEARE WROTE FOR MONEY by Nick Hornby
- SILENT THUNDER by Katy Payne
- SMALL WONDER by Barbara Kingsolver
- THE CALLING by Inger Ash Wolfe
- THE DALKEY ARCHIVE by Flann O'Brien
- THE ISLAND OF LOST MAPS by Miles Harvey
- THE KING'S ENGLISH by Betsy Burton
- THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES OF LITTLE NO HORSE by Louise Erdrich
- THE SORROWS OF AN AMERICAN by Suri Hustvedt
- THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING by Joan Didion
- TO DANCE WITH THE WHITE DOG by Terry Kay
- TRAVELS IN THE SCRIPTORIUM by Paul Auster
- UNACCUSTOMED EARTH by Jhumpa Lahiri
- WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY LIFE? by Po Bronson
- WHEN WILL THERE BE GOOD NEWS? by Kate Atkinson
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