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Matched genres: Animals, Memoir

Title Year Ratings Rating
A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
Nonfiction , Animals , Dogs , Memoir , Biography , Biography Memoir , Audiobook
Dean Koontz
2009 12.0K 4.25
James Herriot: The Life of a Country Vet
Biography , Nonfiction , Animals , Memoir , History , British Literature , Autobiography
Lord
1997 1.7K 4.24
Running with Sherman
Nonfiction , Animals , Memoir , Sports , Audiobook , Biography , Book Club
Christopher McDougall
2019 13.9K 4.24
The Cowboy and His Elephant: The Story of a Remarkable Friendship
Nonfiction , Animals , Memoir , Biography , Nature , Africa , Wildlife
Malcolm MacPherson
2001 1.3K 4.23
Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
Nonfiction , Animals , Biography , Memoir , History , Nature , Adventure
Ralph Helfer
1998 12.2K 4.22
Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog
Nonfiction , Animals , Dogs , Memoir , Biography , Nature , Audiobook
Ted Kerasote
2007 19.7K 4.22
A Boy and a Jaguar
Picture Books , Animals , Biography , Nonfiction , Childrens , Disability , Memoir
Alan Rabinowitz
2014 2.4K 4.21
Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
Nonfiction , Animals , Nature , Science , Memoir , Biography , Canada
Farley Mowat
2001 25.3K 4.21
The Possibility Dogs: What a Handful of "Unadoptables" Taught Me About Service, Hope, and Healing
Nonfiction , Animals , Dogs , Memoir , Audiobook , Biography , Autobiography
Susannah Charleson
2013 1.5K 4.20
Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Science , Nature , Animals , Spirituality
Jane Goodall
2000 5.4K 4.20
Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish
Nonfiction , Animals , Science , Memoir , Nature , Audiobook , Biography
John Hargrove
2015 7.2K 4.20
The Possibility Dogs: What a Handful of "Unadoptables" Taught Me About Service, Hope, & Healing
Nonfiction , Animals , Dogs , Memoir , Audiobook , Biography , Autobiography
Susannah Charleson
2013 1.5K 4.20
Homer's Odyssey
Nonfiction , Animals , Cats , Memoir , Biography , Biography Memoir , Audiobook
Gwen Cooper
2009 15.7K 4.20
Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him
Nonfiction , Animals , Dogs , Memoir , Biography , Military Fiction , Biography Memoir
Luis Carlos MontalvĂ¡n
2011 8.9K 4.19
An African Love Story: Love, Life and Elephants
Nonfiction , Animals , Memoir , Biography , Nature , Autobiography , Kenya
Daphne Sheldrick
1973 5.9K 4.19
An African Love Story - Love, Life and Elephants
Nonfiction , Memoir , Animals , Biography , Nature , Autobiography , Kenya
Daphne Sheldrick
1973 5.9K 4.19
Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur
Nonfiction , Birds , Animals , Nature , Science , Biology , Memoir
Sy Montgomery
2010 1.7K 4.18
All Dogs Go to Kevin: Everything Three Dogs Taught Me
Animals , Nonfiction , Dogs , Memoir , Audiobook , Biography , Biography Memoir
Jessica Vogelsang
2015 1.2K 4.18
Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness
Nonfiction , Nature , Animals , Memoir , Adventure , Environment , Natural History
Doug Peacock
1996 1.8K 4.17
My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Humor , Animals , Travel , Nature
Gerald Durrell
2004 60.0K 4.17
Shy Boy: The Horse That Came in from the Wild
Horses , Nonfiction , Animals , Memoir , Biography , Biography Memoir , True Story
Monty Roberts
2000 3.0K 4.16
The Man Who Listens to Horses
Nonfiction , Horses , Animals , Biography , Memoir , Autobiography , Biography Memoir
Monty Roberts
1998 11.8K 4.16
Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1)
Nonfiction , Animals , Biography , Nature , Memoir , Classics , Science
Joy Adamson
2000 33.6K 4.16
Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship
Nonfiction , Animals , Memoir , Dogs , Biography , Adventure , Travel
Tom Ryan
2011 10.2K 4.15
Finding Gobi: The True Story Of A Little Dog And An Incredible Journey
Nonfiction , Animals , Memoir , Dogs , Biography , Sports , Audiobook
Dion Leonard
2017 13.3K 4.15
My Life in Dog Years
Nonfiction , Animals , Dogs , Memoir , Short Stories , Childrens , Middle Grade
Gary Paulsen
1999 4.0K 4.15
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
Nonfiction , Memoir , Nature , Science , Animals , Biography Memoir , Biography
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
2010 19.5K 4.15
Gorillas in the Mist
Nonfiction , Science , Animals , Nature , Biography , Memoir , Biology
Dian Fossey
2000 21.0K 4.15
The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
Nonfiction , Memoir , Nature , Biography , History , British Literature , Animals
James Rebanks
2015 14.7K 4.14
Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese
Nonfiction , Memoir , Food , Animals , Nature , Agriculture , History
Brad Kessler
2009 1.9K 4.14
The Philosopher and the Wolf
Philosophy , Nonfiction , Animals , Memoir , Wolves , Biography , Nature
Mark Rowlands
2009 3.2K 4.14
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog
Nonfiction , Animals , Memoir , Biography , Dogs , Humor , Biography Memoir
John Grogan
2005 474.3K 4.14
My Animals and Other Family
Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , Autobiography , Animals , Audiobook , Horses
Clare Balding
2012 3.5K 4.13
My Life with the Chimpanzees
Nonfiction , Animals , Science , Biography , Memoir , Nature , Africa
Jane Goodall
1996 3.1K 4.13
Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People
Nonfiction , Africa , Animals , Nature , Zambia , Memoir , Travel
Mark Owens
2007 1.1K 4.13
Menagerie Manor
Nonfiction , Animals , Biography , Humor , Nature , Memoir , Natural History
Gerald Durrell
2007 1.7K 4.13
Ring of Bright Water (Ring of Bright Water, #1)
Nonfiction , Nature , Animals , Memoir , Scotland , Biography , Travel
Gavin Maxwell
1987 3.4K 4.13
The Dog Who Rescues Cats: The True Story of Ginny
Animals , Nonfiction , Dogs , Cats , Biography , Memoir , Autobiography
Philip GonzĂ¡lez
1996 1.3K 4.12
A Dog Year: Twelve Months, Four Dogs, and Me
Nonfiction , Animals , Dogs , Memoir , Biography , Biography Memoir , Nature
Jon Katz
2003 5.2K 4.12
Chosen by a Horse
Nonfiction , Horses , Animals , Memoir , Biography , Biography Memoir , Audiobook
Susan Richards
2007 9.0K 4.11
The Penguin Lessons
Nonfiction , Memoir , Animals , Travel , Biography , Nature , Audiobook
Tom Michell
2015 12.5K 4.11
From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava (Lava #1)
Nonfiction , Animals , Dogs , Memoir , War , Military Fiction , Biography
Jay Kopelman
2006 7.7K 4.10
Fillets of Plaice
Nonfiction , Animals , Humor , Memoir , Nature , Biography , Short Stories
Gerald Durrell
1976 1.8K 4.10
Vesper Flights
Nonfiction , Nature , Essays , Science , Memoir , Animals , Birds
Helen Macdonald
2020 7.9K 4.10
Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process
Nonfiction , Animals , Science , Memoir , Birds , Biography , Psychology
Irene M. Pepperberg
2008 9.9K 4.10
Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
Nonfiction , Animals , Memoir , Nature , Science , Birds , Biography
Stacey O'Brien
2008 12.4K 4.10
Comet's Tale: How the Dog I Rescued Saved My Life
Nonfiction , Animals , Dogs , Memoir , Biography , Biography Memoir , Medical
Steven D. Wolf
2012 1.5K 4.09
Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog
Humor , Nonfiction , Memoir , Animals , Dogs , Audiobook , Self Help
Dave Barry
2019 6.5K 4.09
Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership with a Search-and-Rescue Dog
Nonfiction , Animals , Memoir , Dogs , Audiobook , Biography , Nature
Susannah Charleson
2010 5.1K 4.09
The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Nonfiction , Nature , Birds , Memoir , Animals , Science , Art
Amy Tan
2024 8.1K 4.08