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.




