Time for this kind of post again. More books I want to read someday! The sources lately seem to be my other reading material, more than from fellow book bloggers. The blogs are getting quieter, or my interests are just remaining entrenched- and animal books are not that popular among adults, yes I know. I think it’s some of both.
Funny story about that (which perhaps I have told here before) one time at a bookstore after looking around, I asked the clerk where to find books on natural history? she didn’t seem to know what that meant. I tried to explain and she showed me the shelves of travel books. I said no, I mean books about animals and she pointed me to the children’s section! Sigh. I like nonfiction narratives about scientific studies of wildlife, books on people’s interactions with animals, or just stories about animals- especially if it’s from their point of view. Is that so hard to understand? Really, this person couldn’t seem to fathom why anyone would want to read that kind of book. That only children would be interested in what animals do, or what we do to them, or why they are how they are. But I am. Very interested. And since that interest hasn’t changed in some forty-plus years, I doubt it’s going to anytime soon.
Well. Here’s the list:
found at my local library:
The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill
Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton- Lark Writes
Pathogenesis by Jonathan Kennedy
The Great Sperm Whale by Richard Ellis
Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher- A Bookish Type
Dolphin Diaries by Denise Herzing
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby van Pelt
The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken- Book Chase
not at the library:
Taking Flight by Lev Parikian
Yoruba Girl Dancing by Simi Bedford
Speak to Me by Paula Cocozza
Cry of the Wild by Charles Foster
Away with Words by Sophie Cameron
Mother Sea by Lorraine Wilson
Beastly by Keggie Carew
Undercurrent by Natasha Carthew
The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller
Brilliant White Peaks by Teng Rong- Snips and Snails
Alone by Carlotta Gurt
Tree Stories by Stefano Mancuso
Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens by Patricia Lynn Duffy
The Real Chimpanzee by Christophe Boesch
Black Ops and Beaver Bombing by Fiona Mathews
George: A Magpie Memoir by Frieda Hughes
Blue Meridians by Peter Matthiessen
Lost and Found by James Gould-Bourn
The Cultured Chimpanzee by W.C. McGrew
Chimpanzees of the Budongo Forest by Vernon Reynolds
The New Chimpanzee by Craig Stanford
Voyage to the Whales by Hal Whitehead
The Jewel Box by Tim Blackburn
Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins by Hal Whitehead
The Dog Days of Arthur Cane by T. Ernesto Bethancourt
Silverhair by Stephen Baxter
The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life by Steven Leveen- Book Chase
Love From a Convict by Veronica Henriques- the Neglected Books Page
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That Silverhair book looks great! I grabbed it and the other two in the trilogy. Hopefully we’ll both enjoy it!