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10 best books like The Fur Person (May Sarton): The Cat and the Curmudgeon, The Cat Who Covered the World: The Adventures Of Henrietta And Her Foreign Correspondent, Cats In The Belfry, The Silent Miaow: A Manual for Kittens, Strays, and Homeless Cats, Why Cats Paint: A Theory of Feline Aesthetics, An Unknown Woman, Cat People, Kitty Cornered: How Frannie and Five Other Incorrigible Cats Seized Control of Our House and Made It Their Home, The Autobiography of Foudini M. Cat, My Cat Spit McGee

The Cat and the Curmudgeon
AuthorCleveland Amory
ISBN0641588267
Many other reviews hated the author's convoluted sentence structure, but I had no trouble reading the writing. In fact, most of the hilarity in this book was due to the very tongue in cheek delivery style associated with this style of writing. However, for the first time in a number of years, I met a book...
The Cat Who Covered the World: The Adventures Of Henrietta And Her Foreign Correspondent
AuthorChristopher S. Wren
ISBN0743222768
Henrietta was an ordinary New York City cat until she ventured overseas with foreign correspondent Christopher S. Wren and his wife and children. Over seventeen years and tens of thousands of miles, she became a plucky, indispensable companion for the reporter as he covered world events in Moscow,...
Cats In The Belfry
AuthorDoreen Tovey
ISBN1840244526
It wasn't, we discovered as the months went by, that Sugieh was particularly wicked. It was just that she was a Siamese. Animal lovers Doreen Tovey and her husband Charles acquire their first Siamese kitten to rid themselves of an invasion of mice, although they worry about the cat attacking the birds....
The Silent Miaow: A Manual for Kittens, Strays, and Homeless Cats
AuthorPaul Gallico
ISBN0517556839
For cat lovers, the title of this book speaks for itself. The Silent Miaow and the chapter devoted to it spell out all that is most endearing in our feline companions.

Put forth as a secret manuscript typed by a cat and transposed for publication by Paul Gallico, The Silent Miaow is subtitled,...
Why Cats Paint: A Theory of Feline Aesthetics
AuthorHeather Busch
ISBN1580087930
I had somehow never come across this standard reference on cat aesthetics, and I must admit that my critical standards were deplorably low. But having read Busch and Silver's excellent text, I am better informed. I advise you not to get me started, or I will bore you for hours explaining why Inframice:
...
An Unknown Woman
AuthorAlice Koller
ISBN0553354825
"I walk: desk to couch, couch to table, table to fireside chair, chair to stove, stove to refrigerator, and there I lean, crying... Why am I here? There's no place else to be. What am I doing here? I don't really know. What am I trying to do here? To find some way to live."This is the true story of a courageous...
Cat People
AuthorMichael Korda
ISBN0060756632
With characteristic wit, self–effacing charm and sheer, exuberant love of a good cat story, New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda and his wife Margaret Korda recount their lives as "cat people," beginning with Margaret's passion for cats (and Michael's reluctant mid–life transformation...
Kitty Cornered: How Frannie and Five Other Incorrigible Cats Seized Control of Our House and Made It Their Home
AuthorBob Tarte
ISBN1565129997
Bob Tarte had his first encounter with a cat when he was two and a half years old. He should have learned his lesson then, from Fluffy. But as he says, “I listened to my heart instead, and that always leads to trouble.” In this tell-all of how the Tarte household grew from one recalcitrant cat to six—including...
The Autobiography of Foudini M. Cat
AuthorSusan Fromberg Schaeffer
ISBN0449911454
Grace the Cat is not at all like me, as she is forever bent on mischief. But because I am an older and wiser cat, she looks to me for counsel, and so I have allowed Grace to prevail upon me to set down the story of my life as a housecat in the human world. . . .

As the irrepressible Foudini M. Cat regales us...
My Cat Spit McGee
AuthorWillie Morris
ISBN0375706933
With endearing humor and unabashed compassion, Willie Morris--a self-declared dog man and author of the classic paean to canine kind, My Dog Skip--reveals the irresistible story of his unlikely friendship with a cat. Forced to confront a lifetime of kitty-phobia when he marries a cat woman, Willie...
All My Patients are Under the Bed: Memoirs of a Cat Doctor
AuthorLouis J. Camuti
ISBN0671554506
Here in paperback is America's favorite and most heartwarming cat book by the beloved cat doctor Dr. Louis J. Camuti. For sixty years he treated thousands of cats and mad so many house calls he became known as "the Albert Schweitzer of the cat world."

In recollections both funny and tender, Dr....
I Am Maru
AuthorMugumogu
ISBN0062088416
Maru, the mischievous male Scottish Fold cat, is an international YouTube sensation—an adorable ball of fur with a penchant for finding remarkably cozy hiding places. Compiled by Maru’s owner, the user-named mugumogu, I Am Maru celebrates the unique abilities of this unforgettable feline...
A Cat Abroad
AuthorPeter Gethers
ISBN0517591103
"Charming, witty, and winning...[A] delightful sequel."
SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
Norton charmed even the most avowed cat haters in the bestselling THE CAT WHO WENT TO PARIS. Now, in Peter Gethers' and Norton's further adventures, the extraordinary feline with the great Scottish Fold ears,...
The Cats' House
AuthorBob Walker
ISBN0836221834
Any cat would give up one of its nine lives for a shot at living in the Cats' House, a wacky fantasyland for cats created by Bob Walker and his wife, Frances Mooney. They've turned their California home into a feline fun house. It's the perfect mix of cat-friendly and cat-fantasy. And now cat fans can get...
The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats: A Journey into the Feline Heart
AuthorJeffrey Moussaieff Masson
ISBN0345448839
Drawing from literature, history, animal behavioral research, and the wonderful true stories of cat experts and cat lovers around the world, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson vividly explores the delights and mysteries of the feline heart. But at the core of this remarkable book are Masson’s candid,...
Julia's Cats: Julia Child's Life in the Company of Cats
AuthorPatricia Barey
ISBN1419702750
The world knows Julia Child as the charismatic woman who brought French cuisine to America and became a TV sensation, but there’s one aspect of her life that’s not so familiar. Soon after the Childs arrived in Paris in 1948, a French cat appeared on their doorstep, and Julia recalled, “Our domestic...
The Cats of Roxville Station
AuthorJean Craighead George
ISBN0525421408
Rachet was thrown into a river to drown. But she claws up the riverbank and finds a home with the feral cats living by the Roxville train station. Amid foxes, raccoons, owls, and hostile humans, the cats fight for territory, hunt, and are hunted. Mike, a foster child, lives near the station. He spots Rachet...
Oscar, Cat-About-Town
AuthorJames Herriot
ISBN0312051379
Having read about Oscar in James Herriot’s Cat Stories, I wanted to see if the delightful story could be improved in any way as a picture book. It definitely is a treasure. The story has been trimmed to focus on how a lost cat was adopted by the Herriot’s only to be reclaimed by its owners, yet there is...
I See Kitty
AuthorYasmine Surovec
ISBN1596438622
Love that Kitty! The most adorable picture book of the year invites the very youngest cat lovers to find Kitty in the world around them.

Chloe loves kitties. She wants a cat so much that she sees Kitty everywhere she goes: at the bus stop, in her backyard, in the starry night sky, even in her dreams....
101 Uses for a Dead Cat
AuthorSimon Bond
ISBN0517545160
Maslow, Fanci, and Ashley wandered over to the thin red book lying on the floor.

Maslow, the smartest of the three cats, tried to read the title, "D-E-A-D C-A-T"

Ashley pricked up her ears "CATS! It's about cats."

Fanci turned a few pages, 'It's about dead cats, I think."

Maslow...
The Character of Cats: The Origins, Intelligence, Behavior, and Stratagems of Felis Silvestris Catus
AuthorStephen Budiansky
Simultaneously affectionate and suspicious, adaptive and intractable, dependent and aloof, cats are the least tamed and yet the most successful domestic species. Drawing upon new research into cat genetics, brain chemistry, evolution, social behavior, and interaction with humans and fellow...
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