Animal Stories

If you like stories for adults about animals, try the following authors and titles.

• Richard Adams:Watership Down, Plague Dogs
• Susan Wittig Albert: the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter series
• Lilian Jackson Braun: mysteries solved by a cat called Koko
• Rita Mae Brown: Mrs Murphy solves mysteries with her cat, plus other animal mysteries
• Louis de Bernières: Red dog: an Australian story
• Barbara Dimmick: In the presence of horses
• Nicholas Evans: The Horse Whisperer
• Kenneth Grahame: The wind in the willows
• John Grogan: Marley and Me
• Barbara Gowdy: The White Bone (elephants)
• William Horwood: Duncton Chronicles, also sequels to The wind in the willows
• Gabriel King: The Wild Road
• Jack London: The Call of the Wild, White Fang
• Paul Monette: Sanctuary: a tale of life in the woods
• Joyce Stranger
• Alan Titchmarsh: Animal instincts
• Tad Williams: Tailchaser's song

Short Story Collections

• Arthur Bradford, Dogwalker: stories
• In our nature: stories of wilderness
• Jill McCorkle, Creatures of habit: stories
• Hannah Tinti, Animal crackers

Finding more

Or try a subject search on animals - fiction or animal fiction e.g. horses - fiction. Another useful subject may be human-animal relationships - fiction.

You may also like to try some of the titles on our If you like The Horse Whisperer list.