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Adult Stories Involving Animals

Rank Title Author Added

1

by George Orwell

60,421 members

892 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

2

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

44,518 members

1,334 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

3

43,791 members

1,013 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

4

Water for Elephants

28,976 members

1,184 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

5

by Michael Crichton

20,904 members

318 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

6

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

19,428 members

476 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

7

by Margaret Atwood

17,031 members

538 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

8

Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

15,912 members

383 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

9

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

15,443 members

303 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

10

by Stephen King

14,284 members

231 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

11

All the Pretty Horses

by Cormac McCarthy

10,835 members

253 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

12

by Stephen King

9,927 members

139 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

13

by Larry McMurtry

8,377 members

239 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: sturlington

14

The Island of Dr. Moreau

7,298 members

173 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

15

To Say Nothing of the Dog

by Connie Willis

6,772 members

287 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

16

by Jeff VanderMeer

6,402 members

371 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

17

Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

by Christopher Moore

4,033 members

118 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

18

by Stephen King

3,700 members

95 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

19

by Karen Russell

3,614 members

238 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

20

by Stephen King

2,821 members

74 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

21

Planet of the Apes

by Pierre Boulle

2,816 members

73 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

22

Remarkably Bright Creatures

by Shelby Van Pelt

2,670 members

172 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

23

2,551 members

60 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

24

Gun, With Occasional Music

by Jonathan Lethem

2,333 members

65 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

25

The Only Good Indians

by Stephen Graham Jones

2,272 members

101 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

26

by Jeff VanderMeer

2,134 members

88 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

27

1,848 members

80 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

28

The Last House on Needless Street

by Catriona Ward

1,500 members

83 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

29

The People in the Trees

by Hanya Yanagihara

1,356 members

81 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

30

The Family Tree

by Sheri S. Tepper

1,064 members

22 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

31

by Kira Jane Buxton

1,054 members

64 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

32

Death in Her Hands

by Ottessa Moshfegh

923 members

46 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: sturlington

33

A Children's Bible

by Lydia Millet

879 members

45 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

34

820 members

37 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

35

by Sarah Gailey

756 members

69 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

36

Hummingbird Salamander

by Jeff VanderMeer

733 members

29 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: sturlington

37

Sharks in the Time of Saviors

by Kawai Strong Washburn

706 members

37 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

38

by Rachel Yoder

649 members

29 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

39

by Catriona Ward

486 members

22 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

40

The Only Harmless Great Thing

by Brooke Bolander

451 members

38 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

41

by Michael Koryta

426 members

30 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

42

This Thing Between Us

394 members

16 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

43

The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

by Margaret Killjoy

353 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

44

The Animals at Lockwood Manor

310 members

20 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

45

The Burn Palace

by Stephen Dobyns

237 members

20 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

46

Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen

by Dexter Palmer

180 members

13 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

47

by Ken Greenhall

138 members

5 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

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December 2019
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