Read 30 Books Centered Around Animals

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Overview

Whether it's nature writing, anthropomorphized animals in folklore, children's literature, or something else, this challenge encourages participants to read 20 books about 30 different animals.

Think Watership Down by Richard Adams or Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung for a rabbit. And for a book about a cat, it could be anything from Warriors by Erin Hunter to Kafka by the Shore by Haruki Murakami. HIstorical fiction books like Horse by Geraldine Brooks to comedic parodies like Shakespeare for Squirrels by Christopher Moore, the number of books about animals, featuring animals, is endless.

Challenge Books

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Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life by John Gray

Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life

John Gray

128 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction philosophy funny reflective medium-paced
Secrets of the Woods (Yesterday's Classics) by William J. Long

Secrets of the Woods (Yesterday's Classics)

Wood Folk #3

William J. Long

180 pages • paperback

fiction childrens history literary nature adventurous slow-paced
To Fetch a Felon by Jennifer Hawkins

To Fetch a Felon

A Chatty Corgi Mystery #1

Jennifer Hawkins

336 pages • paperback • 2020

fiction mystery funny mysterious fast-paced
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Bird by Bird

Anne Lamott

238 pages • paperback • 1994

nonfiction memoir reference informative inspiring medium-paced
A Little Brother to the Bear (Yesterday's Classics) by William J. Long

A Little Brother to the Bear (Yesterday's Classics)

Wood Folk #5

William J. Long

300 pages • paperback

fiction classics nature adventurous informative reflective medium-paced
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

Migrations

Charlotte McConaghy

8 hours, 48 minutes • audio • 2020

fiction dystopian literary adventurous emotional sad medium-paced
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Black Beauty

Anna Sewell

245 pages • paperback • 1877

fiction classics literary middle grade emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Sky Painter: Louis Fuertes, Bird Artist by Aliona Bereghici, Margarita Engle

The Sky Painter: Louis Fuertes, Bird Artist

Aliona Bereghici, Margarita Engle

40 pages • digital • 2015

nonfiction biography poetry informative reflective slow-paced
Long Ride Home: Guts and Guns and Grizzlies, 800 Days Through the Americas in a Saddle (Journey America Book 1) by Filipe Masetti Leite

Long Ride Home: Guts and Guns and Grizzlies, 800 Days Through the Americas in a Saddle (Journey America Book 1)

Filipe Masetti Leite

408 pages • digital • 2018

nonfiction adventurous inspiring reflective medium-paced
Ruffian: Burning from the Start by Jane Schwartz

Ruffian: Burning from the Start

Jane Schwartz

352 pages • paperback • 1991

nonfiction sports adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced