 | Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: £5.40 / Used from: £0.01 My favourite book ever featuring an animal: a huge bengal tiger! This book is so original and an absolute joy and started my love affair with all things tiger.
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 | Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.01 If you love animals as much as I do, make sure you get your box of tissues at the ready. This is such a brilliant book.
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 | The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
Buy new: £7.16 / Used from: £0.01 A man tries to teach his dog to speak as she is the only witness to his wife's death. I loved it.
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 | Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.27 Beautifully written story set in a circus in the 1920's America. A huge elephant called Rosie is the star of this one. Was gutted when I finnished this.
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 | Practically Perfect by Katie Fforde
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 A rescued greyhound called Caroline stars in this one and I loved her. This is a lovely book for curling up by the fire with - chick lit for grown ups.
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 | A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg
Buy new: £4.31 / Used from: £0.98 A really gorgeous, heartwarming tale of a shy and abandonned girl who befriends a little bird. Lovely book.
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 | The Final Confession of Mabel Stark by Robert Hough
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £0.01 Another one with tigers! Great book.
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 | Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo by Lawrence Anthony
Buy used from: £2.89 A vet braves war torn Baghdad to rescue the abandonned and starving animals in the city zoo. Loved it.
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 | Watership Down by Richard Adams
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Everyone's seen the film, but you'll need just as many tissues for the book.
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 | Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan
Buy new: £4.35 / Used from: £0.01 You'll laugh and you'll cry but one thing's for sure - you won't ever forget Marley!!
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 | Behaving Badly by Isabel Wolff
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 More grown up chick lit. Miranda is a vet with a troubled love life but there are plenty of animal capers in this one.
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 | Tigers in Red Weather (Abacus Books) by Ruth Padel
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 More tigers! This isn't fiction but well worth a read. Takes you on a spiritual journey.
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 | Timbuktu by Paul Auster
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.00 The scruffy mut on the cover just makes my heart melt. Mr Bones lives with his owner, Willy, on the streets in Brooklyn and they go on a journey together to find someone from Willy's past. Touching.
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 | The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog by Dave Barry
Buy used from: £0.01 This is a fabulously funny short read for Christmas. Walter is the family dog and it had me smiling all the way through. Loved it.
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 | The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £0.01 Fabulous book about a horse who is in an accident with his teenage rider and has to be taken to a ranch in Montana to recover.
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 | The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Buy used from: £0.65 Story written by a family dog called Enzo. Funny, sad and will stay with you.
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 | Northern Lights (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £0.01 I just love the tought of all humans having daemons! I did that on-line test and mine is a tiger much to my delight!
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 | Under the Paw: Confessions of a Cat Man by Tom Cox
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £2.04 I've just ordered this and can't wait to read it; I am cat mad.
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