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Adult Stories Involving Animals

Rank Title Author Added

1

47,406 members

1,053 reviews

3.9

3 Members: norabelle414, sturlington, ahef1963

2

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

35,559 members

564 reviews

3.8

3 Members: norabelle414, EMS_24, ahef1963

3

by Margaret Atwood

18,870 members

578 reviews

3.9

3 Members: norabelle414, sturlington, ahef1963

4

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

17,977 members

342 reviews

3.9

3 Members: norabelle414, sturlington, ahef1963

5

by George Orwell

70,326 members

1,010 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

6

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

47,991 members

1,399 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

7

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

by Gregory Maguire

33,227 members

710 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: norabelle414, ahef1963

8

Water for Elephants

31,600 members

1,219 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

9

by Michael Crichton

24,149 members

371 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

10

Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

18,737 members

438 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

11

by Stephen King

17,053 members

269 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

12

by Stephen King

11,642 members

161 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

13

To Say Nothing of the Dog

by Connie Willis

7,386 members

322 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

14

by Stephen King

6,872 members

145 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

15

If It Bleeds: Four Novellas

by Stephen King

4,357 members

101 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

16

by Sarah Gailey

892 members

82 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: norabelle414, sturlington

17

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

22,289 members

535 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

18

All the Pretty Horses

by Cormac McCarthy

12,160 members

275 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

19

The Art of Racing in the Rain

11,434 members

626 reviews

4

Member: dara85

20

by Larry McMurtry

10,615 members

285 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: sturlington

21

by Jeff VanderMeer

9,010 members

448 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

22

The Island of Doctor Moreau

8,421 members

188 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

23

Remarkably Bright Creatures

by Shelby Van Pelt

7,187 members

329 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

24

by Helen Macdonald

5,265 members

307 reviews

3.8

Member: EMS_24

25

Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

by Christopher Moore

4,264 members

123 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

26

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

by Karen Joy Fowler

4,131 members

259 reviews

3.8

Member: norabelle414

27

The Only Good Indians

by Stephen Graham Jones

4,023 members

140 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

28

by Karen Russell

4,021 members

252 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: sturlington

29

3,666 members

136 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

30

A Natural History of Dragons

by Marie Brennan

3,405 members

154 reviews

3.8

Member: norabelle414

31

Planet of the Apes

by Pierre Boulle

3,253 members

85 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

32

2,703 members

62 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

33

by Jeff VanderMeer

2,685 members

101 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

34

The Last House on Needless Street

by Catriona Ward

2,656 members

131 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

35

Gun, with Occasional Music

by Jonathan Lethem

2,509 members

68 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

36

The Travelling Cat Chronicles

by Hiro Arikawa

2,360 members

118 reviews

4.1

Member: EMS_24

37

Beatrice and Virgil

2,164 members

142 reviews

3.2

Member: EMS_24

38

Once There Were Wolves

by Charlotte McConaghy

2,064 members

90 reviews

4

Member: EMS_24

39

by Laline Paull

1,973 members

137 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: norabelle414

40

by Spencer Quinn

1,947 members

155 reviews

3.8

Member: blakelylaw

41

Track of the Cat

1,927 members

59 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: norabelle414

42

by Charlotte McConaghy

1,857 members

109 reviews

4.1

Member: EMS_24

43

West with Giraffes

by Lynda Rutledge

1,752 members

109 reviews

4.1

Member: norabelle414

44

The People in the Trees

by Hanya Yanagihara

1,688 members

87 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

45

by Kira Jane Buxton

1,442 members

77 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

46

by Lauren Groff

1,417 members

69 reviews

3.8

Member: norabelle414

47

by Rachel Yoder

1,409 members

56 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

48

Death in Her Hands

by Ottessa Moshfegh

1,343 members

49 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: sturlington

49

A Children's Bible

by Lydia Millet

1,164 members

59 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

50

The Family Tree

by Sheri S. Tepper

1,134 members

24 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

51

Hummingbird Salamander

by Jeff VanderMeer

1,093 members

33 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: sturlington

52

977 members

40 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

53

Sharks in the Time of Saviors

by Kawai Strong Washburn

925 members

45 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

54

by Sam J. Miller

920 members

33 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: norabelle414

55

The Murders in the Rue Morgue [short story]

by Edgar Allan Poe

834 members

24 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: norabelle414

56

by Catriona Ward

809 members

39 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

57

This Thing Between Us

798 members

28 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

58

Anthill: A Novel

by Edward O. Wilson

700 members

45 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: norabelle414

59

by Robert Repino

635 members

32 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: norabelle414

60

A Pigeon and a Boy

597 members

34 reviews

4.1

Member: EMS_24

61

The Only Harmless Great Thing

by Brooke Bolander

513 members

43 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

62

489 members

25 reviews

4

Member: norabelle414

63

by Michael Koryta

485 members

33 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

64

The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

by Margaret Killjoy

480 members

24 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

65

by Adriaan van Dis

446 members

11 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: EMS_24

66

The Animals at Lockwood Manor

393 members

22 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

67

The Burn Palace

by Stephen Dobyns

258 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

68

Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen

by Dexter Palmer

206 members

14 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

69

by Ken Greenhall

205 members

7 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

70

The Dog Who Came to Stay

150 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

71

Fenrir een lang weekend in de Ardennen

by Hella S. Haasse

119 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: EMS_24

72

Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries

by Martin Edwards

77 members

2 reviews

3

Member: norabelle414

73

Jasper en zijn knecht

by Gerbrand Bakker

58 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: EMS_24

74

Hoe de dieren in de hemel kwamen ; voorafgegaan door Die aardige beer

by Maarten Biesheuvel

42 members

1 review

3.1

Member: EMS_24

75

Biography of a Fly

15 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: EMS_24

76

by Agnita de Ranitz

10 members

5

Member: EMS_24

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