How about cats in literature?

The life and opinions of the Tomcat Murr by ETA Hoffman (of course...)

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by TS Eliot
(cats in verse)

Jeannie by Paul Gallico (adventures of a boy who turns into a cat)

Born Free by Joy Adams (big cats)

Archie and Mehitabel by Don Marquis (a cockroach and a cat write poetry...)

The Black Cat, by Edgar Allan Poe
Saki's Tobermory
Elizabeth Coatsworth's The Cat Who Went to Heaven
Yves Navarre's A Cat's Life
And, of course, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams

The Master and Margarita (Behemoth)
Amazing maurice and his educated rodents
Alice in wonderland
The Daydreamer (boy who turns into a cat again)
Kafka of the shore (missing cats)

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Robert Heinlein
The Cat from Outer Space by Ted Key
Zen for Cats by Henry Beard
The Tribe of Tiger by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern by Lillian Jackson Braun (I am strongly tempted to list 5 books by Braun ;)
The Book of Night With Moon by Diane Duane
The Cat Who Came For Christmas by Cleveland Amory
The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny

Just joined today, sounds like a fun group!

the Cat Who Came in From the Cold by Deric Longden. The author's story of how he (accidentally) stole his neighbor's kitten.

the Catswold Portal by Shirley Rousseau Murphy. A fantasy novel about a woman who can move between our world and hers, and shape-shift into a cat.

Do Cats Think? by Paul Corey. The author talks about the many different cats he and his wife have kept over the years.

Cat on the Edge by Shirley Rousseau Murphy. The first book of the Joe Grey series, a mystery/fantasy series where two cats discover they can speak to and be understood by humans.

Wish You Were Here by Rita Mae Brown. The first of the Mrs. Murphy series, a mystery series where the animals can talk to each other, but not to humans.

A Cat in Wolf's Clothing by Lydia Adamson. (random selection representing the entire Alice Nestleton cozy series)
Of Cats and Kings by Clare De Vries
I & Claudius: Travels With My Cat by Clare De Vries (touchstone refused to load)
The Cat Who Covered the World by Christopher S. Wren
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

Without looking at anyone else's list:

The Fur Person by May Sarton
Puss in Boots - classic tale
Particularly Cats by Doris Lessing
The Cat by Colette
Born Free by Joy Adamson

The Adventures of Tom Kitten by Beatrix Potter
Garfield's Feline Fantasies by Jim Davis
Felix the Cat
Tom and Jerry
Tweety and Sylvester

The cat who walked by himself from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
On his cat Jeoffrey by Christopher Smart (poem)
Carbonel by Barbara Sleigh (published in the UK as being by Sleigh)
The Littlest Siamese by Eleanor Farjeon (if anyone else remembers this story please tell me, I've been trying to trace it for years)
A Cat in the Window by Derek Tangye

oh, I love that poem by Christopher Smart!

Here are some more--

Thomasina: the Cat who Thought she was God by Paul Gallico
The Door into summer by Robert Heinlein
The Fur Person by May Sarton
Time Cat by Lloyd Alexander
Space Cat by Ruthven Todd

The Fur Person - May Sarton
Everything Here is Mine - Nicole Hollander
Cats With Attitude - Nicole Hollander (again!)
The Cat Who Went Into the Closet - Lilian Braun
The Cat Who Came for Christmas - Cleveland Amory

I especially love Nicole Hollander's kitties.

Life of Johnson by James Boswell (his cat was called Hodge)
Felidae by Akif Pirincci
Orlando the Marmalade Cat by Kathleen Hale
Garfield sits around the House by Jim Davis
101 Uses for a Dead Cat by Simon Bond

The Cat on my Shoulder by Lisa Angowski Rogak
Catullus: A Poet in the Rome of Julius Caesar by Aubrey Burd
Fifth Life of the Catwoman by Katheleen Dexter
Murder at the Cat Show by Marian Babson
The Sophisticated Cat by Joyce Carol Oates, ed.

Cat on the Scent
The Cat Who Could Walk Through Walls
Cat's Eyewitness
Claws and Effect
Undercover Cat
Sour Puss
Touch Not the Cat

Tailchaser's Song by Tad Williams
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
The Cricket in Times Square by Garth Seldon
Hangman's Holiday by Dorothy L. Sayers

How could I have forgotten Touch Not the Cat? I adore that book!

Re: Touch Not the Cat - not a single person has tagged it with "cat" or "cats". I haven't read the book. The covers shown seem to have a cat on them. Is the idea of the cat metaphorical?

vpfluke - "Touch Not the Cat" is the family motto, which is part of the clue to solve the mystery. So in that sense it's not an actual cat.

The family motto: Touch Not the Cat, But a Glove (ie, without a glove) indicates the fierceness of the family, whose crest symbol is a wild cat. But it is the family and the crest that is important, not the cat in the crest. Am I making any sense at all???

There are so many books for young readers that are about cats, I couldn't even begin to list them. Most of them are not suitable for adults, however, the series by Erin Hunter; Warriors, is quite good. I have posted in the Warriors forums on this site, but am I the only adult who reads these books?! My husband loves them as well, but other than him, I have not encountered any other adults who read these. Perhaps most of you have never heard of them? I urge you to try them. If you like cats, you will love these books.

Also, Windrusher by Victor DiGenti is pretty good. I'm not even sure if it is meant for kids. It describes the mating scene which I don't really think would be appropriate for younger readers, but maybe it is, I don't know. I like the book though.

Rita Mae Brown and the Sneaky Pie Brown series
Shirley Rousseau Murphy's Joe Grey series
Soseki Natsume's I Am A Cat

Rhubarb by H. Allen Smith (a cat, Rhubarb, inherits a baseball team)

The Cat Who Came For Christmas by Cleveland Armory

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof by T.S. Eliot
The Crystal Cat by Velda Johnston
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie
James Herriot's Cat Stories
Teaser and the Firecat by Cat Stevens
Bell, Book and Candle - A Comedy in Three Acts featuring the inimitable Pyewacket
The Tale of Hill Top Farm, first in the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter series by Susan Wittig Albert - featuring talking animals (only to each other) in which cats feature prominently.

No you and your husband are not the only adults that like the Warriors series by Erin Hunter. I have read the first one and it looks like I'm will have to start purchasing the rest of the books since they don't stay on the shelves at my local library for very long.

My five cat books: Tail Chaser's Song, The Silent Meow, Magic Cats(collected short stories), Into the Wild and Catswold Portal.

I am currently reading Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. One of the persons in the story is able to have conversations with cats. The novel also makes reference to a writer, Soseki Natsume, who wrote I am a cat. I will try to obtain a copy of this and see what it is like.

A Circle of Cats by Charles de Lint
The Cat Who Went to Paris by Peter Gethers
The Tao of Meow by Waldo Japussy
The Midnight Louie Mysteries by Carole Nelson Douglas
The Keeper Series by Tanya Huff featuring Austin the talking cat.

Not Wanted on the Voyage, which is a story of Noah and his family, features a talking cat named Motyl. Great book.

A Dance for Emilia by Peter S. Beagle
The Cat that Overcame by Helen LaPenta
Princess and Minerva by Carolyn Lane
Cats of Thistle Hill: A Mostly Peaceable Kingdom by Roger A. Caras
Varjak Paw by S.F. Said

One Lady, Two Cats by Richard Lockridge
Cats and People by Frances and Richard Lockridge
The Catnappers by P. G. Wodehouse
Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
Cat O' Nine Tails

Edited to complete list after being interrupted by the startling news that Tim Russert has died.

De koddige kater by Willy Vandersteen (means: The funny male cat)
Allemaal katjes by W.G. van de Hulst (means: all little cats)
The Cat Who Liked Rain by Henning Mankell
De kat achterna by Doeschka Meijsing (means: chase the cat)
Het stille verdriet van een grote rooie kater by Jan Kruis (means: The silent annoyance of a big red male cat)

Dagboek van een poes by Remco Campert (means: diary of a cat)
Miauw (meow) by Midas Dekkers
Minoes by Annie M. G. Schmidt
Poes by Midas Dekkers
Tom Poes en de toverparaplu by Marten Toonder (means: Tom the Cat and the magic umbrella)

Cats Can Sleep Anywhere by Eleanor Farjeon
Mog and Me by Judith Kerr
Pigeon Among the Cats by Josephine Bell
Fred by Posy Simmonds
Paw Tracks in the Moonlight by Denis O'Connor

Artful Cats by Norman Lindsay
Come Down, Cat by Sonya Hartnett
Matthew Flinders' Cat by Bryce Courtenay
The Christmas Day Kitten by James Herriot
White Cat by Holly Black

Seeing a Large Cat by Elizabeth Peters
KISS Guide to Cat Care by Steve Duno
The Cat Who Played Brahms by Lillian Jackson Braun
Cat on the Scent by Rita May Brown
Pussyfoot by Carole Nelson Douglas

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
The Unadulterated Cat by Terry Pratchett
The Spotted Sphinx by Joy Adamson (about a cheetah)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel
Pete the Cat by James Dean
Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag
Cookie's Week by Cindy Ward
Feathers For Lunch by Lois Ehlert