- William H. Armstrong - Sounder
- Rick Bass - Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had
- Kate DiCamillo - Because of Winn Dixie
- Mark Doty - Dog Years: A Memoir
- Fred Gipson - Old Yeller
- John Grogan - Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog
- Jon Katz - A Dog Year: Twelve Months, Four Dogs, and Me
- Ted Kerasote - Merle’s Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog
- Eric Knight - Lassie Come-Home
- Elmore Leonard - A Coyote’s in the House
- Mark R. Levin - Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover’s Story of Joy and Anguish
- Jack London - The Call of the Wild
- Donald McCaig - Nop’s Trials
- Patricia B. McConnell - The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs
- Willie Morris - My Dog Skip
- Farley Mowat - The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be
- John Muir - Stickeen: The Story of a Dog
- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - Shiloh
- Anna Quindlen - Good Dog. Stay.
- Wilson Rawls - Where the Red Fern Grows
- John Steinbeck - Travels with Charlie: In Search of America
- David Wroblewski - The Story of Edgar Sawtelle









