Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Animals from Books. I did a TTT post this past November about great pets in fiction, so I may have some overlap here.
My top 10 animals from books:
- S.T. (crow) from Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
- Rocinante (horse) from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Crookshanks (cat) from Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
- Rollo (dog) from Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
- Adso (cat) from Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
- Rosie (elephant) from Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
- The owls in Hoot by Carl Hiaassen
- The Adelie penguins in How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior
- Buck (dog) from The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- Carl (dog) from Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi (represented here by the dog flying a plane, in case you’re wondering…)
What animals in books do you especially love?
Share your links, and I’ll come check out your top 10!
Bookshelf Fantasies 
Great list, I love seeing Rosie from Water for Elephants, that’s a book I haven’t thought of in a long time. And of course S.T.! No animal list would be complete without him.
ST is the best. Can’t wait for the next book! I hadn’t thought of Water for Elephants in a long time either… but as I was wracking my brain for ideas, I thought of elephants, and it was either Rosie or Horton!
What a lovely list! Crookshanks was such a great cat.
My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-rabbits-from-books/
I love Crookshanks! I love cats with personality.
Aww… I did not remember Rollo and Adso from Outlander! ❤
They’re both so awesome. Rollo especially feels like a character in the story, not just a pet in the background.
Lovely list, love Crookshanks 💘
Crookshanks seems to be popular today! 🙂
I also had Crookshanks on my post too! He really was the elite pet anyone could have.
Heres mine: http://abookiesbooks.com/2021/04/27/ten-animals-from-books-that-i-want-to-own-top-ten-tuesday/
Oh, I love Crookshanks and all his antics.
ME TOO!!
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Ah, Rollo the dog! My post: http://wordywitterings.com/2021/04/27/top-ten-tuesday/
Rollo is a Very Good Dog.
I’m a little ashamed that I don’t know most of these animals. xD Crookshanks was fun, though! I also really need to read Hollow Kingdom, so I suppose I can look forward to meeting that one soon. 🙂
I hope you do! Hollow Kingdom is such a great book, and there’s a sequel coming this summer!
S.T. from ‘Hollow Kingdom’ is amazing! Definitely one of the most unique protagonists to come along in a while… 🙂
I agree! I love S. T. so much! Have you read Feral Creatures yet?
Nope. 🙂 I just ordered it from Amazon.
Excellent! I hope you enjoy it!