Put a Bird On It

Description
Recommend books that feature birds as characters, symbols or motifs.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
78,840 members
1,434 reviews
½ 4.4
5 Members
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2
The Raven [poem]
by Edgar Allan Poe
1,965 members
41 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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3
The Once and Future King
by T. H. White
15,390 members
207 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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Explanations
aulsmith: Really only the Sword in the Stone part (for my taste)
4
The Trumpet of the Swan
by E. B. White
11,740 members
79 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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5
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by Richard Bach
11,637 members
211 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
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Owl Moon
by Jane Yolen
8,557 members
365 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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7
The Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien
94,888 members
1,193 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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Explanations
sturlington: The eagles.
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Mockingjay
by Suzanne Collins
45,485 members
1,744 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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9
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
15,006 members
803 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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10
A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller Jr.
11,791 members
309 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Explanations
sturlington: The carrion birds as symbol of the endurance of nature.
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The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
9,189 members
280 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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12
Horton Hatches the Egg
by Dr. Seuss
4,477 members
56 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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13
A Feast for Crows
by George R. R. Martin
25,339 members
514 reviews
4
2 Members
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14
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
24,316 members
298 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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15
Sarah, Plain and Tall
by Patricia MacLachlan
11,031 members
287 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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16
The Sparrow
by Mary Doria Russell
7,743 members
406 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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17
Magpie Murders
by Anthony Horowitz
3,872 members
236 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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18
Birds Without Wings
by Louis de Bernières
2,661 members
50 reviews
4.1
2 Members
thorold, perennialreader
19
A Redbird Christmas
by Fannie Flagg
1,619 members
87 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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20
The Birds and Other Stories
by Daphne du Maurier
1,052 members
38 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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21
Hollow Kingdom
by Kira Jane Buxton
1,051 members
64 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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22
The Bird's Nest
by Shirley Jackson
560 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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23
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
by Dubravka Ugrešić
423 members
22 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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24
The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
9,927 members
469 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
sturlington
25
Flaubert's Parrot
by Julian Barnes
3,948 members
73 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
26
The Final Solution. A Story of Detection
by Michael Chabon
3,704 members
155 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
sturlington
27
Bird Box
by Josh Malerman
3,283 members
257 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
28
Nights at the Circus
by Angela Carter
2,678 members
52 reviews
3.9
Member
thorold
29
Acceptance
by Jeff VanderMeer
2,581 members
135 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
30
Birds of America: Stories
by Lorrie Moore
2,458 members
49 reviews
4
Member
sturlington
31
The Fledgling
by Jane Langton
2,268 members
16 reviews
3.8
Member
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32
Death and the Penguin
by Andreï Kourkov
2,012 members
81 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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33
The Phoenix and the Carpet
by E. Nesbit
1,911 members
21 reviews
3.9
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Classic late-Victorian children's book featuring a phoenix
34
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
by Kate Wilhelm
1,788 members
66 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
35
Two Caravans
by Marina Lewycka
1,395 members
62 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Unpleasantly graphic descriptions of working in a chicken-processing plant
36
Bellman & Black
by Diane Setterfield
1,385 members
169 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
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37
Pigeon Post
by Arthur Ransome
962 members
18 reviews
4.2
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Young miners use pigeons as messengers
38
Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead
by Sara Gran
916 members
87 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
39
Coot Club
by Arthur Ransome
875 members
14 reviews
4
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Bird-protection in the Norfolk Broads in the 30s
40
Four and Twenty Blackbirds
by Cherie Priest
768 members
34 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
41
Great Northern?
by Arthur Ransome
710 members
8 reviews
4.1
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Twitchers vs. evil egg-collectors in the Highlands
42
The Cry of the Owl
by Patricia Highsmith
676 members
20 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
43
Love Among the Chickens
by P. G. Wodehouse
621 members
33 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Incompetents start a chicken-farm at Lyme Regis
44
The Silent Land
by Graham Joyce
470 members
51 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
45
The Pilgrim Hawk
by Glenway Wescott
467 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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46
Freddy Goes to Florida
by Walter R. Brooks
417 members
9 reviews
3.9
Member
aulsmith
Explanations
aulsmith: Two chickens
47
The Swallows
by Lisa Lutz
398 members
41 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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48
Last of the Curlews
by Fred Bodsworth
170 members
1 review
4.1
Member
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49
The Blackbirder
by Dorothy B. Hughes
160 members
9 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
sturlington
50
Arnie the Darling Starling
by Margarete Sigl Corbo
80 members
2 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
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51
The Hollywood Dodo
by Geoff Nicholson
37 members
1 review
½ 2.4
Member
sturlington
52
Harry Potter (Books 1-7)
by J. K. Rowling
12,441 members
171 reviews
½ 4.6
Member
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