The Greatest Books of All Time on Animals

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
35 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
102 Charlotte's Web E. B. White 1952 American English
136 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 1908 British English
165 Winnie the Pooh A. A. Milne 1926 British English
255 Disgrace J. M. Coetzee 1999 South African English
267 Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren 1945 Swedish Swedish
309 Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912 American English
320 Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak 1963 American English
381 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis 1950 British English
528 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick 1968 American English
563 Panchatantra Unknown -300 Multiple Sanskrit
693 Little House on the Prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder 1935 American English
792 A Kestrel for a Knave Barry Hines 1968 British English
864 Reynard the Fox Unknown 1479 Multiple Middle dutch
867 Heidi Johanna Spyri 1881 Swiss German
875 Greguerias Ramón Gómez de la Serna 1910 Spanish Spanish
914 The Yearling Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1938 American English
993 Essays of E. B. White E. B. White 1977 American English
1014 The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter 1902 British English
1055 Story of Ferdinand Munro Leaf 1936 American English
1142 Life of Pi Yann Martel 2001 Canadian English
1172 My Family And Other Animals Gerald Durrell 1956 British English
1194 Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Olga Tokarczuk 2009 Polish Polish
1210 The Wasp Factory Iain Banks 1984 British English
1247 The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1894 British English
1250 The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Selma Lagerlöf 1906 Swedish Swedish
1405 The Twits Roald Dahl 1980 British English
1479 The Wall Marlen Haushofer 1963 Austrian German
1567 To Build A Fire Jack London 1902 American English
1589 Tarka the Otter Henry Williamson 1927 British English
1606 White Fang Jack London 1906 American English
1611 Some Experiences Of An Irish R.M. E.Œ. Somerville, Martin Ross 1899 Irish English
1652 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1798 British English
1680 Harold and the Purple Crayon Crockett Johnson 1955 American English
1707 The House at Pooh Corner A. A. Milne 1928 British English
1730 The Mouse And His Child Russell Hoban 1967 American English
1785 The Murders in the Rue Morgue Edgar Allan Poe 1841 American English
1812 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon 2003 British English
1821 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle 1969 American English
1823 Stuart Little E. B. White 1945 American English
1846 Swiss Family Robinson Johann David Wyss 1812 Swiss German
1891 The Journal of Jules Renard Jules Renard 1887 French French
1903 Handley Cross R. S. Surtees 1843 British English
1981 West With the Night Beryl Markham 1942 British English
2029 Nobody's Boy Hector Malot 1878 French French
2101 Collected Short Stories of Saki Saki 1930 British English
2153 The Track Of The Cat Walter Van Tilburg Clark 1949 American English
2285 The Crossing Cormac McCarthy 1994 American English
2386 Emil I Lönneberga Astrid Lindgren 1963 Swedish Swedish
2470 The Grey King Susan Cooper 1975 British English
2573 Lad Albert Payson Terhune 1919 American English
2686 Prince Caspian C. S. Lewis 1951 British English
2703 Natural History Pliny the Elder 77 Roman Latin
2738 My Friend Flicka Mary O'Hara 1941 American English
2840 The Magician's Nephew C. S. Lewis 1955 British English
2947 Redwall Brian Jacques 1986 British English
3014 The Old Men At The Zoo Angus Wilson 1961 British English
3037 Baron Munchausen's Narrative Of His Marvelous Travels And Campaigns In Russia Rudolf Erich Raspe 1785 German German
3093 We're Going on a Bear Hunt Michael Rosen 1989 British English
3214 The Year of the Hare Arto Paasilinna 1975 Finnish Finnish
3309 Cross Creek Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1942 American English
3592 The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson 1999 British English
3625 Bear Marian Engel 1976 Canadian English
3637 The Tootinameh; Or, Tales of a Parrot India, Iran 1300 Indian Persian
3888 Illywhacker Peter Carey 1985 Australian English
3907 The Wind on the Moon Eric Linklater 1944 British English
3910 Water For Elephants Sara Gruen 2006 American English
4061 Serengeti Shall Not Die Bernhard Grzimek 1959 German German
4075 Travels With Lizbeth Lars Eighner 1993 American English
4076 Seabiscuit Laura Hillenbrand 2001 American English
4306 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls 1961 American English
4309 The History Of Pompey The Little Francis Coventry 1751 British English
4487 The Bears' Famous Invasion Of Sicily Dino Buzzati 1945 Italian Italian
4513 The Rattle Bag Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney 1982 British English
4624 Blue Bird Maurice Maeterlinck 1908 Belgian French
4685 The Tiger's Wife Téa Obreht 2011 Serbian English
4718 The Old Man Who Read Love Stories Luis Sepúlveda 1989 Chilean Spanish
4722 My Book House Olive Beaupré Miller 1920 American English
4789 Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes Robert Louis Stevenson 1879 British English
4795 The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle Hugh Lofting 1922 British English
4816 Ozma Of Oz L. Frank Baum 1907 American English
4979 I Want My Hat Back Jon Klassen 2011 Canadian English
5005 The Magic Pudding Norman Lindsay 1918 Australian English
5081 Ernest And Celestine Gabrielle Vincent 1981 French French
5113 Le Lion Joseph Kessel 1958 French French
5260 Death And The Penguin Andrey Kurkov 1996 Ukrainian Russian
5389 The Horse Whisperer Nicholas Evans 1995 British English
5460 The Animals In That Country Laura Jean McKay 2020 Australian English
5461 Téli Berek István Fekete 1957 Hungarian Hungarian
5485 Body Rags Galway Kinnell 1968 American English
5493 All Creatures Great And Small James Herriot 1972 British English
5499 The Trip To Panama Janosch 1978 German German
5529 Povídání O Pejskovi A Kočičce Josef Čapek 1936 Czech Czech
5568 A Whale For The Killing Farley Mowat 1972 Canadian English
5613 Vuk István Fekete 1965 Hungarian Hungarian
5757 Earthly Paradise Colette 1966 French French
5924 Sylvester And The Magic Pebble William Steig 1969 American English
6002 The Wonderful Farm Marcel Aymé 1939 French French
6122 Obabakoak Bernardo Atxaga 1988 Spanish Basque
6204 The Moon In The Cloud Rosemary Harris 1968 British English
6290 Gaston André Franquin 1957 French French
6330 Devotions Mary Oliver 2017 American English
6467 The Lion and the Mouse Jerry Pinkney 2009 American English
6520 City of the Beasts Isabel Allende 2002 Chilean Spanish
6618 Sea Of Slaughter Farley Mowat 1984 Canadian English
6687 Le Drame De La Vie & Le Discours Aux Animaux Valère Novarina 1984 French French
6766 Mc Guffey's Newly Revised Eclectic Primer William Holmes McGuffey 1836 American English
6821 Donald Duck Carl Barks, Walt Disney 1942 American English
6821 Tracy's Tiger William Saroyan 1951 American English
6836 We are All Completely Beside Ourselves Karen Joy Fowler 2013 American English
6913 With The Animals Noëlle Revaz 2002 Swiss French
7186 Pete Pite Gábor Nógrádi 1981 Hungarian Unknown
7205 Animalinside László Krasznahorkai, Max Neumann 2010 Hungarian Hungarian
7215 The Little Grey Men Denys Watkins-Pitchford 1942 British English
7215 Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars Ellen Macgregor 1951 American English
7215 Poems Of William Cowper William Cowper 1782 British English
7215 Collected Stories Rudyard Kipling 1941 British English
7670 The One And Only Ivan Katherine Applegate 2012 American English
7715 Complete Nonsense Edward Lear 1947 British English
7735 The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel Amy Hempel 2006 American English