April 11 is National Pet Day. Celebrate by reading one of these books written by authors about their pets. The books in our collection cover variety of authors. We have popular fiction writers like Danielle Steel and Dean Koontz, as well as more literary authors such as John Steinbeck and Virginia Woolfe. In fact, Virginia Woolfe wrote a biography about Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s dog, Flush. So, poets are covered too.
| BIG LITTLE LIFE: A MEMOIR OF A JOYFUL DOG by Dean R. Koontz (DB 70393, BR 18728) |
| BLISS TO YOU: TRIXIE’S GUIDE TO A HAPPY LIFE by Dean R. Koontz (DB 69378) |
| CAT WHO WENT TO PARIS by Peter Gethers (DB 34131, BR 08854) |
| COLTER: THE TRUE STORY OF THE BEST DOG I EVER HAD by Rick Bass (BR 13367) |
| DOG IS MY CO-PILOT: GREAT WRITERS ON THE WORLD’S OLDEST FRIENDSHIP (DB 57155, BR 15158) |
| DOG’S LIFE by Peter Mayle (DB 44236, BR 10858) |
| FLUSH: A BIOGRAPHY by Virginia Woolfe (BRA 09862) |
| MY CAT SPIT MCGEE by Willie Morris (DB 52219, BR 13597) |
| MY DOG SKIP by Willie Morris (DB 41612, BR 10740) |
| PARTICULARLY CATS–AND RUFUS by Doris Lessing (BR 09522) |
| PURE JOY: THE DOGS WE LOVE by Danielle Steel (DB 92763) |
| SHAGGY MUSES: THE DOGS WHO INSPIRED VIRGINIA WOOLF, EMILY DICKINSON, EDITH WHARTON, ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, AND EMILY BRONTE by Maureen B. Adams (DB 64545) |
| SLEEPING WITH CATS: A MEMOIR by Marge Piercy (DB 58077) |
| TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY: IN SEARCH OF AMERICA by John Steinbeck (DB 16094, BR 09952) |
| WOOF! WRITERS ON DOGS (DB 68414) |