Dog Stories: Fiction and Nonfiction Featuring Man’s Best Friend

Fiction:

Chihuahua of the Baskervilles, Esri Allbritten

Hounded To Death: A Melanie Travis Mystery,* Laurien Berenson

Cormac: The Tale of a Dog Gone Missing, Sonny Brewer

Murder Unleashed,* Rita Mae Brown

A Dog’s Purpose, W. Bruce Cameron

Brute Strength: A Dog Lover’s Mystery,* Susan Conant

Finding Jack, Gareth Crocker

Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts, Lucy Dillon

Beware of Doug, Elaine Fox

The Labrador Pact, Matt Haig

Year of the Dog, Shelby Hearon

Dog Boy, Eva Hornung

The Unscratchables, Cornelius Kane

Rose in a Storm, Jon Katz

Dogged Pursuit, Lee Charles Kelley

Christmas with Tucker,* Gregory D. Kincaid

Roam: A Novel with Music, Alan Lazar

Emily and Einstein, Linda Francis Lee

Only Yours, Susan Mallery

Nose Down, Eyes Up, Merrill Markoe

Begging for Trouble: A Dog Walker Mystery,* Judi McCoy

I Thought You Were Dead: A Love Story, Pete Nelson

Domestic Violets, Matthew Norman

Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe, Andrew O’Hagan

A Pug’s Tale, Alison Pace

To Fetch a Thief: A Chet and Bernie Mystery,* Spencer Quinn

Bed-and-Breakfast Blues, Susan Ralph

The Search, Nora Roberts

Dog Tags,* David Rosenfelt

Home Is Where the Bark Is, Kandy Shepherd

Dogs Don’t Lie: A Pru Marlowe Pet Noir, Clea Simon

Man in the Woods, Scott Spencer

The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein

A Stopover in Venice, Kathryn Walker

Storm Over Whitworth,* Richard Williams

The Highly Effective Detective Goes to the Dogs, Richard Yancey

*part of a series

Fiction Anthology:

The Greatest Dog Stories Ever Told: Great Writers from Ray Bradbury to Mark Twain Celebrate Man’s Best Friend, edited by Patricia M. Sherwood  808.839 GRE

Nonfiction:

My Therapist’s Dog: Lessons in Unconditional Love, Diana Wells  155.937 WEL

Blind Hope: An Unwanted Dog & the Woman She Rescued,   Kim Meeder and Laurie Sacher  277.3083 MEE

Dog Days: Dispatches from Bedlam Farm, Jon Katz  636 KAT

Living a Dog’s Life: Jazzy, Juicy, and Me, Cindy Adams  636.7 ADA

Dogs and the Women Who Love Them: Extraordinary True Stories of Loyalty, Healing, and Inspiration, Allen and Linda Anderson  636.7 AND

Angel Dogs with a Mission: Divine Messengers in Service to All Life,   edited by Allen and Linda Anderson  636.7 ANG

Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Dog’s Life: 101 Stories about All the Ages and Stages of Our Canine Companions,* compiled by Jack Canfield  636.7 CHI

Dogology: What Your Relationship with Your Dog Reveals about You, Vicki Croke and Sarah Wilson  636.7 CRO

Dog Is My Co-Pilot: Great Writers on the World’s Oldest Friendship, the editors of The Bark  636.7 DOG

Dog Talk: Lessons Learned from a Life with Dogs, Harrison Forbes  636.7 FOR

I Have Heard You Calling in the Night, Thomas Healy  636.7 HEA

All My Dogs: A Life, Bill Henderson  636.7 HEN

Pukka: The Pup after Merle, Ted Kerasote  636.7 KER

Bad Dog: A Love Story, Martin Kihn  636.7 KIH

Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love, Larry Levin  636.7 LEV

Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover’s Story of Joy and Anguish, Mark R. Levin  636.7 LEV

Adventures with Ari: A Puppy, a Leash & Our Year Outdoors, Kathryn Miles  636.7 MIL

Before Your Dog Can Eat Your Homework, First You Have to Do It: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog to a Young Boy, John O’Hurley  636.7 OHU

Paws & Effect: The Healing Power of Dogs, Sharon Sakson  636.7 SAK

Puppy Miracles: Inspirational True Stories of Our Lovable, Furry Friends,       Brad Steiger & Sherry Hansen Steiger  636.707 STE

You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness,    Julie Klam  636.70887 KLA

Come Back, Como: Winning the Heart of a Reluctant Dog, Steven Winn  636.70887 WIN

Amazing Gracie: A Dog’s Tale, Dan Dye  636.73 DYE

Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had, Rick Bass  636.752 BAS

Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog, John Grogan  636.7527 GRO

Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship, Tom Ryan  796.522 RYA

My Dog Skip, Willie Morris  813.54 MOR

Dog People: What We Love about Our Dogs: Writers and Artists on Canine Companionship, edited by Michael J. Rosen  818.5403 DOG

Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Brönte,     Maureen Adams  820.99287 ADA

Sergeant Rex: The Unbreakable Bond between a Marine and His Military Working Dog, Mike Dowling  956.70443 DOW

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