This week’s prompt is a genre freebie. At the moment, being summer and high time for plants and gardening, I’m obsessed with gardening and nature books. But I already did a post about the nature and gardening books I’ve read, am reading and want to read this summer, and I don’t want to get too repetitive! So I’m going to go close but not quite on the nose by sharing some books about both wild and domesticated animals I really enjoyed reading and have heard good things about and want to try.
Books I’ve read and loved:
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Free Days with George by Colin Campbell
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
And a couple of kids’ books my kid and I both loved:
A Sheepdog Called Sky by Helen Peters (and the rest of the series)
Animal books I’d really like to read soon:
Nigel by Monty Don
Bad Badger by Maryrose Wood
The Running Hare by John Lewis-Stempel
Fox & I by Catherine Raven
George by Frieda Hughes
So those are some of the books about animals I’ve read, and some that I’d like to read. There are many more – books about birding, books about bees, books about other types of wild animal friendships, books about animal companions – there are a lot, and probably many more I don’t even know about. But these are my top picks currently.
What about you guys? Have you read any of these? If so, what did you think? Are there any other books about animals you’d recommend?
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly link-up feature created by The Broke and the Bookish and hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. Every week TTT has a different topic, and everyone who links up has to create a link of ten items that fit that topic. To see past and upcoming topics, go here.
What a lovely idea for a this week’s post!
Mine is here: https://clairehennighan.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/my-top-ten-historical-fiction-novels/
Thank you! It was a fun one to research!
A Sheepdog Called Sky looks really cute!
I enjoy this series, and it was a good story!
What a great list. Many of these are new to me. I really want to read Raising Hare. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! I really loved Raising Hare – it was a great blend of interesting info about hares and her learning about the natural environment around her, but also a memoir of how the experience affected her. It’s exactly what I was looking for, and I keep looking for something similar!
This is a great list of books! I hope you enjoy reading those you haven’t yet.
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Thank you!
George looks interesting.
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
Yeah, I hadn’t heard of it until researching this post, but I’m definitely interested!
I need to share The Genius Bat with my naturalist group. Several of them are participating in a citizen science project about bats.
Oh that is so cool! I don’t know that much about bats, but occasionally I learn little bits from my kid or from a nature program, and there have been so many things that have surprised me!
I’ve only read the Charlie Macksey book from your selection. Good idea for this week’s topic.
Here’s mine for this week: https://portobellobookblog.com/2025/08/05/top-ten-tuesday-5th-august-genre-freebie-memoirs-toptentuesday-amreading-bookrecommendations-tuesdaybookblog-booksky-%f0%9f%92%99%f0%9f%93%9a/
Oh I loved that book so much! Thanks!