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Overbooked Booklist: Dog Stars

 

Page Modified: April 5, 2008

Fiction (all genres) & Nonfiction about some of our best friends

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Fiction

• Timbuktu
  Author: Auster, Paul
  Publisher: Henry Holt List Price: $ 22 ISBN: 0805054073 Date: 1999
  PW
  Mr. Bones, the canine hero of Auster's remarkable new novel, is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, the brilliant, troubled, and altogether original poet-saint from Brooklyn. Like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, they sally forth on a last great adventure in search of Willy's high school teacher and mentor.
  Suggested Reading: Poets
  
• Lives of the Monster Dogs
  Bakis, Kirsten
  Publisher: Farrar Strasu & Giroux List Price: $23 ISBN: 0374189870 Date: 1997
  Publishers Weekly LJ
  NYTBR Editor's Choice
• Gone to the Dogs
  Author: Carmichael, Emily
  Publisher: Bantam $ 6.50 (paper) ISBN: 0553586335 Date: 2004
  Booklist
  Miss Piggy, the femme fatale reincarnated as a Welsh corgi, is back in this first title of a new trilogy. Piggy must determine if her owner's suitor wants romance or the $12 million Piggy has just inherited.
  Updated 11.25.03
• Apologizing to Dogs
  Author: Coomer, Joe
  Publisher: Scribner List Price: $ 22 ISBN: 0684859467 Date: 1999
  PW
  Heartwarming, hilarious, and utterly human, this book tells the tale of a group of eccentric antique dealers, who must face the task of cleaning up the mess they're in, after a violent storm strikes, wreaking havoc as well as causing fire, a heart attack, and grand theft.
• Sight Hound
  Author: Houston, Pam
  Publisher: Norton $ 23.95 ISBN: 0393058174 Date: 2004
  PW LJ
  From the bestselling author of Cowboys Are My Weakness comes a very special love story between a woman and her dog, a wolfhound who teaches "his human" that love is stronger than fear.
  Updated 1.23.05
• Wild Dogs
  Author: Humphreys, Helen
  Publisher: Norton $ 22.95 ISBN: 0393060152 Date: 2005
  Kirkus
  As she falls in love with the wildlife biologist whose wolf leads a pack of feral dogs, Alice feels the tug between love's wild power and her desire to domesticate it. From the author of The Lost Garden, Wild Dogs strips away the conventions of love and passion to reveal deeper, richer truths.
  Updated 1.29.05
• Dogs of Babel
  Author: Pankhurst, Carolyn
  Publisher: Little Brown $ 21.95 ISBN: 0316168688 Date: 2003
  Library Journal Booklist
  A poignant and beautiful debut novel explores a man's quest to unravel the mystery of his wife's death with the help of the only witness--their Rhodesian ridgeback, Lorelei.
  Suggested Reading: Debuts | New Orleans
  Updated 5.14.03
• Lapham Rising
  Author: Rosenblatt, Roger
  Publisher: Ecco $ 23.95 ISBN: 0060833610 Date: 2006
  PW LJ
  A recluse living on his own island in a creek across from the relentlessly noisy construction of a house belonging to a millionaire, reveals his life: his elaborate plot against the millionaire, the various odd visitors to his island, and his talking dog.
  Updated 10.31.05

Nonfiction

• Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had
  by Bass, Rick
  Publisher: Houghton Mifflin $ 22 ISBN: 0395926181 Date: 2000
  PW
  Colter is an interspecies love story that vividly captures the relationship between humans and dogs and along the way explores a man's childhood fascination with snapping turtles and dirt, and of the other animals - including people - that have shaped his life.
  
• Dogs: A Startling New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior, and Evolution
  by Coppinger, Raymond
  Publisher: Scribner $ 26 ISBN: 0684855305 Date: 2001
  PW LJ
  The Coppingers explore how dog breeds have evolved into their unique shapes and behaviors. Concentrating on five types of dogs--modern household dogs, village dogs, livestock guarding dogs, sled dogs, and herding dogs--they examine canine companions from a unique biological viewpoint.
  Suggested Reading: Nature
• Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs
  by Caroline Knapp
  Publisher: Dial ISBN: 0385316984 $21.95 Date: 1998
  PW
  Knapp, the author of the acclaimed Drinking: A Love Story, tells the tale of her relationship Lucille, a mixed breed dog.
  
• The Social Lives of Dogs: The Grace of Canine Company
  by Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 24 ISBN: 0684810263 Date: 2000
  PW
  From the celebrated anthropologist and bestselling author comes a uniquely frank and enlightening sequel to The Hidden Life of Dogs that explores how our favorite pets adapt for life with their human owners. "A beautiful sequel . . . brimming with new insights". --Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of Dogs Never Lie About Love.
  

 

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