Animal Biographies (Non-Fiction)

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Animal Biographies: Toward a History of Individuals
Animal Biographies: Toward a History of Individuals 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood 4.02 avg rating — 8,217 ratings
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Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human
Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human 3.79 avg rating — 774 ratings
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The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdog
The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdog 4.22 avg rating — 3,637 ratings
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Laika's Window: The Legacy of a Soviet Space Dog
Laika's Window: The Legacy of a Soviet Space Dog 4.03 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Esther the Wonder Pig: Changing the World One Heart at a Time
Esther the Wonder Pig: Changing the World One Heart at a Time 4.16 avg rating — 2,876 ratings
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Allowed to Grow Old: Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries
Allowed to Grow Old: Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries 4.73 avg rating — 185 ratings
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The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior
The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior 4.45 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Heart of a Lion: A Lone Cat’s Walk Across America
Heart of a Lion: A Lone Cat’s Walk Across America 4.09 avg rating — 434 ratings
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I, Toto: The Autobiography of Terry, the Dog Who Was Toto
I, Toto: The Autobiography of Terry, the Dog Who Was Toto 4.11 avg rating — 172 ratings
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The Cow with Ear Tag #1389
The Cow with Ear Tag #1389 4.44 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The Last Diving Horse in America: Rescuing Gamal and Other Animals--Lessons in Living and Loving
The Last Diving Horse in America: Rescuing Gamal and Other Animals--Lessons in Living and Loving 3.90 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Sanctuary: Portraits of Rescued Farm Animals
Sanctuary: Portraits of Rescued Farm Animals 4.35 avg rating — 26 ratings
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A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog 4.26 avg rating — 12,076 ratings
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Last Chain on Billie: How One Extraordinary Elephant Escaped the Big Top
Last Chain on Billie: How One Extraordinary Elephant Escaped the Big Top 3.99 avg rating — 353 ratings
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Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity
Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity 4.27 avg rating — 3,611 ratings
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The animals' who's who: 1,146 celebrated animals in history, popular culture, literature, and lore
The animals' who's who: 1,146 celebrated animals in history, popular culture, literature, and lore liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Seabiscuit: An American Legend 4.23 avg rating — 167,149 ratings
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Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees
Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees 4.48 avg rating — 2,065 ratings
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I Once Was Lost, But Now I'm Found: Daisy and the Olympic Animal Sanctuary Rescue
I Once Was Lost, But Now I'm Found: Daisy and the Olympic Animal Sanctuary Rescue 4.51 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Cherished: 21 Writers on Animals They Have Loved and Lost
Cherished: 21 Writers on Animals They Have Loved and Lost 3.89 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Animal Biography: Re-framing Animal Lives
Animal Biography: Re-framing Animal Lives liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Oscar: The Bionic Cat
Oscar: The Bionic Cat 4.02 avg rating — 188 ratings
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Feline Cultures: Cats Create Their History
Feline Cultures: Cats Create Their History 3.25 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Jumbo the Elephant: The Life and Legacy of History’s Most Famous Circus Animal
Jumbo the Elephant: The Life and Legacy of History’s Most Famous Circus Animal 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Almost Human: The Story of Julius, the Chimpanzee Caught between Two Worlds
Almost Human: The Story of Julius, the Chimpanzee Caught between Two Worlds 4.16 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Douchka: The story of a dog
Douchka: The story of a dog 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Bonzo's War: Animals Under Fire 1939-1945
Bonzo's War: Animals Under Fire 1939-1945 3.55 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Happily Ever Esther: Two Men, a Wonder Pig, and Their Life-Changing Mission to Give Animals a Home
Happily Ever Esther: Two Men, a Wonder Pig, and Their Life-Changing Mission to Give Animals a Home 4.07 avg rating — 870 ratings
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Gorillas in the Mist
Gorillas in the Mist 4.15 avg rating — 21,058 ratings
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Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl 4.10 avg rating — 12,466 ratings
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Lonesome George: The Life and Loves of a Conservation Icon
Lonesome George: The Life and Loves of a Conservation Icon 4.09 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend 3.53 avg rating — 4,938 ratings
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Animal Modernity: Jumbo the Elephant and the Human Dilemma
Animal Modernity: Jumbo the Elephant and the Human Dilemma really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Gift of Kindness: Inspiring True Stories of Rescued Farm Animals
The Gift of Kindness: Inspiring True Stories of Rescued Farm Animals
by: Pam Ahern
4.40 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Book of Joe: About a Dog and His Man
The Book of Joe: About a Dog and His Man 4.09 avg rating — 236 ratings
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The Parrot Who Owns Me: The Story of a Relationship
The Parrot Who Owns Me: The Story of a Relationship 4.03 avg rating — 894 ratings
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Through Animals' Eyes: True Stories from a Wildlife Sanctuary
Through Animals' Eyes: True Stories from a Wildlife Sanctuary 3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Sophie's Story : Raising a Chimp in the Family
Sophie's Story : Raising a Chimp in the Family 4.12 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar
The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar 3.67 avg rating — 1,030 ratings
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Saving Eagle Mitch: One Good Deed in a Wicked World
Saving Eagle Mitch: One Good Deed in a Wicked World really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Captive
Captive 4.71 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Story of Nim: The Chimp Who Learned Language
Story of Nim: The Chimp Who Learned Language 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Animal Histories of the Civil War Era
Animal Histories of the Civil War Era really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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That Quail, Robert
That Quail, Robert 4.33 avg rating — 2,221 ratings
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A Chimp in the Family: The True Story of Two Infants--One Human, One Chimpanzee--Growing Up Together
A Chimp in the Family: The True Story of Two Infants--One Human, One Chimpanzee--Growing Up Together 3.62 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Pickles The Parrot: A Humorous Look At Life With An African Grey
Pickles The Parrot: A Humorous Look At Life With An African Grey 4.26 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World 3.87 avg rating — 62,011 ratings
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Animal Resistance in the Global Capitalist Era
Animal Resistance in the Global Capitalist Era 4.02 avg rating — 47 ratings
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James and Other Apes
James and Other Apes 4.38 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Animals Strike Curious Poses
Animals Strike Curious Poses 3.79 avg rating — 926 ratings
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We Animals
We Animals 4.82 avg rating — 223 ratings
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The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A True Story of Resilience and Recovery
The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A True Story of Resilience and Recovery 4.38 avg rating — 1,075 ratings
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Rescuing Ladybugs: Inspirational Encounters with Animals That Changed the World
Rescuing Ladybugs: Inspirational Encounters with Animals That Changed the World 4.39 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Atlanta’s Iconic Ape: The Life of Willie B.
Atlanta’s Iconic Ape: The Life of Willie B. 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Hachi-Ko: The Samurai Dog
Hachi-Ko: The Samurai Dog 4.48 avg rating — 237 ratings
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The Afterlives of Animals: A Museum Menagerie
The Afterlives of Animals: A Museum Menagerie 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Timothy The Tortoise: The Remarkable Story Of The Nation's Oldest Pet
Timothy The Tortoise: The Remarkable Story Of The Nation's Oldest Pet 3.61 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris
Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris 3.58 avg rating — 648 ratings
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Saving Simon: How a Rescue Donkey Taught Me the Meaning of Compassion
Saving Simon: How a Rescue Donkey Taught Me the Meaning of Compassion
by: Jon Katz
4.13 avg rating — 1,897 ratings
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Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene
Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene 4.90 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Alex, The West Nile Horse
Alex, The West Nile Horse 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Sold for a Farthing
Sold for a Farthing 4.23 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals
Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals 4.28 avg rating — 8,720 ratings
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The Penguin Lessons
The Penguin Lessons 4.12 avg rating — 14,907 ratings
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Thirty Times a Minute
Thirty Times a Minute it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Thing: Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood
Thing: Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood 3.91 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Am I Blue
Am I Blue 4.07 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Where Hunting Dogs Rest
Where Hunting Dogs Rest 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind
Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind 4.13 avg rating — 226 ratings
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Who's Who of Animals 1993: Biographies of Cats, Dogs and Other Great Animal Companions
Who's Who of Animals 1993: Biographies of Cats, Dogs and Other Great Animal Companions 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals
The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals 4.03 avg rating — 1,148 ratings
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And Miles To Go: The Biography Of A Great Arabian Horse, Witez II
And Miles To Go: The Biography Of A Great Arabian Horse, Witez II 4.59 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Zamba: The True Story of the Greatest Lion That Ever Lived
Zamba: The True Story of the Greatest Lion That Ever Lived 4.28 avg rating — 1,504 ratings
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Master Pongo: A Gorilla Conquers Europe
Master Pongo: A Gorilla Conquers Europe 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Nature, Nuture and Nim: Trauma in Sentient Beings
Nature, Nuture and Nim: Trauma in Sentient Beings 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Hemingway's Cats: An Illustrated Biography
Hemingway's Cats: An Illustrated Biography 3.89 avg rating — 124 ratings
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The Dog Who Rescues Cats: The True Story of Ginny
The Dog Who Rescues Cats: The True Story of Ginny 4.12 avg rating — 1,314 ratings
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Where the Blind Horse Sings: The Uplifting Story of the Catskill Animal Sanctuary and the Animals Who Call It Home
Where the Blind Horse Sings: The Uplifting Story of the Catskill Animal Sanctuary and the Animals Who Call It Home 4.30 avg rating — 748 ratings
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True Stories From the Moscow Zoo
True Stories From the Moscow Zoo 4.46 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Pug Who Bit Napoleon: Animal Tales of the 18th and 19th Centuries
The Pug Who Bit Napoleon: Animal Tales of the 18th and 19th Centuries 3.70 avg rating — 164 ratings
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Silent Partners: The Legacy of the Ape Language Experiments
Silent Partners: The Legacy of the Ape Language Experiments 3.96 avg rating — 23 ratings