Animals

Last Updated: March 11, 2025

Vanishing Treasures by Katherine Rundell

A tour of the natural world’s most awe-inspiring animals currently facing extinction.

What the Chicken Knows by Sy Montgomery

Sy Montgomery takes us inside the flock and reveals all the things that make chickens such remarkable creatures: only hours after leaving the egg, they are able to walk, run, and peck; relationships are important to them and the average chicken can recognize more than one hundred other chickens; they remember the past and anticipate the future; and they communicate specific information through at least twenty-four distinct calls.

Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton

Raising Hare: A Memoir
by Chloe Dalton

A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman’s unlikely friendship with a wild hare.

Three Wild Dogs (and the Truth) by Markus Zusak

This is a memoir about the human need for both connection and disorder, a love letter to the animals who bring hilarity and beauty–but also the visceral truth of the natural world–straight to our doors and into our lives and change us forever.