Animals
🥇 01
I COULD PEE ON THIS
🖋️ Francesco Marciuliano
🏢 Chronicle
In this book of tongue-in-cheek poetry, cats get help explaining their behavior.
🥈 02
LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT JASPER ...
🖋️ Dana Perino
🏢 Twelve
Reflections on dogs — especially her Vizsla, Jasper — and politics, by the co-host of Fox News’s “The Five,” a former press secretary to President George W. Bush.
🥉 03
H IS FOR HAWK
🖋️ Helen Macdonald
🏢 Grove/Atlantic
A grief-stricken British woman decides to raise a goshawk, a fierce bird that is notoriously difficult to tame.
04
THE SOUL OF AN OCTOPUS
🖋️ Sy Montgomery
🏢 Atria
The complex intelligence, emotional capacities, playfulness and spirit of the octopus, by a naturalist who counts several as friends.
05
THE EIGHTY-DOLLAR CHAMPION
🖋️ Elizabeth Letts
🏢 Random House
The story of Snowman the horse, the extraordinary jumper and national celebrity.
06
THE GENIUS OF BIRDS
🖋️ Jennifer Ackerman
🏢 Penguin Press
Research reveals that many birds rival primates and even humans in their complex forms of intelligence.
07
THE LION IN THE LIVING ROOM
🖋️ Abigail Tucker
🏢 Simon & Schuster
The evolutionary science, natural history and biology of house cats.
08
RESCUE ME
🖋️ Richard Phibbs
🏢 Aperture
Dog adoption portraits and stories from New York City.
09
A STREET CAT NAMED BOB
🖋️ James Bowen
🏢 Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's
A London busker befriends an injured cat, and the two become inseparable.
10
REALLY IMPORTANT STUFF MY DOG HAS TAUGHT ME
🖋️ Cynthia L Copeland
🏢 Workman
A photographic tribute to dogs in motion celebrates lessons of living in the present, such as play, sleep, and scratching where it itches.