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Marley and Me

Top Ten Dog Books

I love everything about dogs. Well, maybe not everything. There is that “what you can step in” aspect. But I do love the way dogs can coax you out of a bad mood, the way puppies smell, the unselfless ways of canines, and then there is the entertainment value.  Whatever will they do next?

I also love to write about dogs – which is why one of the key characters in my young adult novel is based on my crazy pooch, Shadow. Shadow is a border collie mix with loads of personality and a gigantic heart. I got to thinking the other day that one of my favorite novels also had a border collie as a pivotal character (Nop’s Trials). That lead me to create a list of my favorite top ten dog books of all time (in no particular order):

1). Nop’s Trials by Donald McCaig
2). A Dog Year: Twelve Months, Four Dogs and Me by Jon Katz
3). Marley and Me by John Grogan
4). Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
5). The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
6). The Poky Little Puppy by Janet Sebring Lowrey (A Golden Book Classic)
7). Old Yeller by Robert Stevenson
8). Because of Winn Dixie  by Kate DiCamillo
9).  The Call of the Wild by Jack London
10). Cujo by Stephen King

Do you have any favorite animal stories? Cats?  Horses?  Maybe a tiger (as in Yann Martel’s The Life of Pi).

Filed Under: Dogs, Reading, Uncategorized Tagged With: A Dog Year, Cujo, dogs, Edgar Sawtelle, favorite dog books, Grogan, Jack London, Katz, Marley and Me, Old Yeller, reading, Steinbeck, Stephen King, Travels with Charley, Winn Dixie

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