NYT Animals
Bestseller List for January 15, 2017
I COULD PEE ON THIS
Francesco Marciuliano
Chronicle
9781452110585
1-4521-1058-1
In this book of tongue-in-cheek poetry, cats get help explaining their behavior.
LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT JASPER ...
Dana Perino
Twelve
9781455567102
1-4555-6710-8
Reflections on dogs — especially her Vizsla, Jasper — and politics, by the co-host of Fox News’s “The Five,” a former press secretary to President George W. Bush.
H IS FOR HAWK
Helen Macdonald
Grove/Atlantic
9780802124739
0-8021-2473-9
A grief-stricken British woman decides to raise a goshawk, a fierce bird that is notoriously difficult to tame.
THE SOUL OF AN OCTOPUS
Sy Montgomery
Atria
9781451697728
1-4516-9772-4
The complex intelligence, emotional capacities, playfulness and spirit of the octopus, by a naturalist who counts several as friends.
THE EIGHTY-DOLLAR CHAMPION
Elizabeth Letts
Random House
9780345521095
0-345-52109-9
The story of Snowman the horse, the extraordinary jumper and national celebrity.
THE GENIUS OF BIRDS
Jennifer Ackerman
Penguin Press
9781594205217
1-59420-521-3
Research reveals that many birds rival primates and even humans in their complex forms of intelligence.
THE LION IN THE LIVING ROOM
Abigail Tucker
Simon & Schuster
9781476738239
1-4767-3823-8
The evolutionary science, natural history and biology of house cats.
RESCUE ME
Richard Phibbs
Aperture
9781597113380
1-59711-338-7
Dog adoption portraits and stories from New York City.
A STREET CAT NAMED BOB
James Bowen
Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's
9781250029478
1-250-02947-3
A London busker befriends an injured cat, and the two become inseparable.
REALLY IMPORTANT STUFF MY DOG HAS TAUGHT ME
Cynthia L Copeland
Workman
9780761181798
0-7611-8179-2
A photographic tribute to dogs in motion celebrates lessons of living in the present, such as play, sleep, and scratching where it itches.