Animal Narrator

Level up with these stories told by animals or about their inner lives!

Updated August 13, 2025
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Animal Narrator

Level up with these stories told by animals or about their inner lives!

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Animal Farm
Orwell, George
Paper Book
75th Anniversary Edition--Includes a New Introduction by Téa Obreht George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel--a scathing satire of a downtrodden society's blind march towards totalitarianism. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than...
The art of racing in the rain : a novel
Stein, Garth.
Paper Book
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM FOX 2000 STARRING MILO VENTIMIGLIA, AMANDA SEYFRIED, AND KEVIN COSTNER MEET THE DOG WHO WILL SHOW THE WORLD HOW TO BE HUMAN The New York Times bestselling novel from Garth Stein--a heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately...
The bees
Paull, Laline
Paper Book
The Handmaid's Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut.
Beyond words : what animals think and feel
Safina, Carl
Paper Book
I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so-close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that for a scientist was forbidden fruit: Who are you? Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new...
The book of chameleons
Agualusa, José Eduardo
Paper Book
Félix Ventura trades in an unusual commodity; he is a dealer in memories, clandestinely selling new pasts to people whose futures are secure and who lack only a good lineage to complete their lives. In this completely original murder mystery, where people are not who they seem and the...
White Fang
London, Jack
Paper Book
Born in the wilds of the freezing Yukon, the wolf-cub White Fang soon learns the harsh laws of nature, growing fiercer and more independent in his struggle to survive. Yet buried deep inside him are distant memories of affection and love - can he learn to trust man again?
The Dalai Lama's cat and the Art of Purring
Michie, David.
Paper Book
What makes you purr? Of all the questions in the world, this is the most important. It is also the great leveler. Because no matter whether you are a playful kitten or a sedentary senior, a scrawny alley Tom or a sleek-coated uptown girl, whatever your circumstances, you just want to be happy....
Dog on it
Quinn, Spencer
Paper Book
The first book of the New York Times bestselling Chet and Bernie mystery series, an "enchanting one-of-a-kind novel" (Stephen King) that is "nothing short of masterful" (Los Angeles Times). Chet, the wise and lovable canine narrator of Dog on It, and Bernie,...
A dog's life
Mayle, Peter.
Paper Book
The bestsellling author of A Year in Provence and Hotel Pastis now surveys his territory from a differnt vantage point: the all-fours perspective of his dog, Boy--"a dog whose personality is made up of equal parts Boswell and Dr. Johnson, Mencken and A. A. Milne" (Chicago Sun-Times). Enhanced by 59...
A dog's purpose
Cameron, W. Bruce
Paper Book
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE"I loved the book and I could not put it down. It really made me think about the purpose of life." Temple Grandin, New York Times bestselling authorAll dogs go to heaven... unless they have unfinished business here on earth...Surprised to find himself reborn as a...
Fox 8
Saunders, George
Paper Book
'Very funny ... With Fox 8, Saunders does something one might, in isolation, think it almost impossible for a book to do, which is to resensitise the reader to violence' Guardian An enchanting and darkly comic fable of human greed and nature, from the Man...
The heart of a dog
Bulgakov, Mikhail
Paper Book
The inner life of animals : love, grief and compassion -- surprising observations of a hidden world
Wohlleben, Peter
Paper Book
A beguiling book about our deep connection with the natural world in all its incarnations, from the author of The Hidden Life of Trees. Mother deer that grieve? Horses that feel shame? Squirrels that adopt their grandchildren? We humans tend...
Memoirs of a polar bear
Tawada, Y¿ko
Paper Book
The Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed in the New Yorker as "Yoko Tawada's magnificent strangeness"--Tawada is an author like no other. Three generations (grandmother, mother, son) of polar bears are famous as both circus performers and writers in East...
Mink river : a novel
Doyle, Brian
Paper Book
The story of the small Oregon coast town of Neawanaka and its people.
Mrs Frisby and the rats of Nimh
O'Brien, Robert C.
Paper Book
They are not like other rats. They work at night, in secret . . . Time is running out for Mrs Frisby. She must move her family of mice before the farmer destroys their home. But her youngest son, Timothy, is too ill to survive the move. Help comes in the unexpected...
Remarkably bright creatures : a novel
Van Pelt, Shelby
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Soon to be a Netflix Film A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! NAMED A BEST BOOK OF SUMMER by: Chicago Tribune * The View * Southern Living * USA Today "Remarkably Bright Creatures [is] an ultimately...
The social life of animals : how co-operation conquered the natural world
Ward, Ashley
Paper Book
Everything you ever wanted to know about how animals live together, and what that means for us
Watership down : the graphic novel
Sturm, James
Paper Book
EISNER AWARD WINNER * OHIO BOOK AWARD WINNER * A beautiful and faithful graphic novel adaptation of Richard Adams's beloved story of a group of rabbits on an epic journey in search of home. NOMINATED FOR THE RINGO AWARD AND THE HARVEY AWARD "Every rabbit...
Wish You Were Here
Brown, Rita Mae.
Ebook
Curiosity just might be the death of Mrs. Murphy--and her human companion, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen.nbsp;nbsp;Small towns are like families:nbsp;nbsp;Everyone lives very close together. . .and everyone keeps secrets.nbsp;nbsp;Crozet, Virginia, is a typical small town-until its secrets explode...
Your dog is your mirror : the emotional capacity of our dogs and ourselves
Behan, Kevin
Ebook
In Your Dog Is Your Mirror, dog trainer Kevin Behan proposes a radical new model for understanding canine behavior: a dog's behavior and emotion, indeed its very cognition, are driven by our emotion. The dog doesn't respond to what the owner thinks, says, or does; it responds to what the owner feels...
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