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Softy, fluffy, warm, purring, and sometimes capricious - such are our beloved cats. And because we love them so much for their ability to bring joy and stillness into our lives, we have so many stories to tell and share. Here is a list of the best stories that will make you cry and laugh at the same time, they will melt your heart with strong personalities and character that our cats show in the most unexpected ways. Choose a free and relaxed evening, pick a book, get your cate by your side and enjoy!
Arabella Carter-Johnson - Iris Grace: Hoe Thula the cat saved a little girl and her family
This book isn't the story of a genius or child
prodigy (although Iris is almost certainly both of those things), this is the
story of how a remarkable bond between a cat and a child saved a family.
Celia Haddon - One Hundred Ways for a Cat to Train its Human
As cat people like to say: Dogs may have
masters, but cats have staff. This charming handbook is all a cat needs to
train its human properly-from where to sit (and where not) to what (very
expensive) cat food to buy.
Dean Nicholson - Nala's World: One man, his rescue cat and a
bike ride around the globe
Discover the heartwarming true story of a life-changing friendship between a man and his rescue cat, Nala, as they adventure together
on a bike journey around the world.
On Cats is a celebrated classic, a memoir in which we meet the
cats that have slunk and bullied and charmed their way into Doris Lessing's
life. She tells their stories - their exploits, rivalries, terrors, affections,
ancient gestures, and learned behaviors - with vivid simplicity.
Francesco Marciuliano – You need more sleep: Advice from cats
The cats in this book will have you relaxed and
ready to take on the world! Just after one more nap.
Genki Kawamura - If cats disappeared from the world
If Cats Disappeared from the World is a story of loss and reconciliation, of one man’s
journey to discover what really matters in modern life.
The book is the once-in-a-lifetime story of an
extraordinary cat and his human companion. It celebrates the refusal to accept
limits - on love, ability, or hope against overwhelming odds. By turns jubilant
and moving, it’s a memoir for anybody who’s ever fallen completely and
helplessly in love with a pet.
Helen Brown – Cleo: How an unpitty cat helped heal a family
Cleo's zest for life slowly taught the
traumatized family to laugh. She went on to become the uppity high priestess of
Helen's household, vetoing her new men, terrifying visiting dogs, and building a
special bond with Rob, his sister Lydia, Helen - and later a baby daughter.
Hiro Arikawa – The traveling cat chronicles
Nana the cat is on a road trip. He is not sure
where he's going or why, but it means that he gets to sit in the front seat of
a silver van with his beloved owner, Satoru. Side by side, they
cruise around Japan through the changing seasons.
James Bowen – A street cat named Bob: How one man and his cat found hope on the streets
The moving, uplifting true story of an unlikely
friendship between a man on the streets and the ginger cat who adopts him and
helps him heal his life.
Kate Moore - Felix the Railway Cat
When Felix arrived at Huddersfield Railway
Station as an eight-week-old kitten, no one knew just how important this little
ball of fluff would become. Felix seems to have a remarkable ability to
save the day time and again: from bringing a boy with autism out of his shell
to providing comfort to a runaway child shivering on the platform one night.
Lena
Divani - Seven
Lives and One Great Love
This is the story - a love story of epic
dimensions - of Sugar, a cat with a keen wit and a reflective nature, and his
human, Madamigella, a writer with a frenetic and impossibly dispersive life.
Lilian Jackson Braun – Koko and Yum Yum
A collection of short stories starring Koko and
Yum Yum - the fantastic feline duo from the bestselling Cat Who series.
Marie J. S. Phillips – Khan: A Maine Coon
Semi-fictional biography of Khan, a real Maine
Coon. Khan deals with life's challenges and surprises, always finding
strength in feline friendships, old and new, and in love from his humans -
until a monster from within suddenly strikes him down in the prime of life.
Nils Uddenberg - The Old Man and The Cat: A love story
One winter morning the author discovered a
cat-whom he would later find was homeless-sitting outside his bedroom window,
staring at him with big yellow eyes. Slowly but surely the cat worked itself
into his life.
Sandi Ward – Something worth saving
A boy and his cat. It's an unconventional
friendship, perhaps, but for Charlie and Lily, it works beautifully. It was
Charlie who chose Lily from among all the cats in the shelter. He didn't frown,
the way other humans did, when he saw her injured back leg, the legacy of a
cruel previous owner. Instead, Charlie insisted on rescuing her. Now Lily wants
to do the same for Charlie.
Stéphane Garnier – How to live like your cat
Cats are free. They are calm, observant, wise,
elegant, charismatic, and proud. In fact, cats have found nothing less than the
secret of how we should all live, whatever species we are!
Takashi
Hiraide - The
Guest Cat
A couple in their thirties live in a small rented
cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo; they work at home, freelance copy-editing;
they no longer have very much to say to one another. But one day a cat invites
itself into their small kitchen. It leaves, but the next day comes again, and
then again and again.
Vicky
Myron - Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
Zafrina Zuhair – Home is where my cat is
This book is about rescue kitties who have now
found their forever homes. These stories will tug at your heartstrings!
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