- 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









