As children, many of us adored stories featuring talking cats or dogs, or books about dinosaurs and wildlife. And the truth is, adults love animals, too! Enjoy our recommended reading list of 15 books about animals to inform and inspire you.

What's a good length for a book club book? Find out what we learned about page count for book clubs from our annual subscriber survey.

Plus, check out our recent Q&A with the founders of Paging Creatives, a book group for creative business owners, and be sure to mark your calendar for a fresh lineup of online book club discussions coming this fall.

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Davina Morgan-Witts

If you love reading books about animals, you're not the only one! Animals can evoke a sense of both the familiar and the otherworldly.

Here are recommended books from recent years, both fiction and nonfiction, to bring you a little closer to all the other beings with whom we share the planet.

Some of them inhabit an animal point of view, while others consider how much people may be able to learn from living alongside animals. These also make great choices for book clubs. ... continued

What's the right number of pages for a book club book? Should your group set a page limit for the titles you read?

In our most recent annual survey, we asked subscribers how their clubs factor the length of books into their selection process. Here, we'll explore their answers and the significance of page count for book clubs in general.

As it turns out, very few of our respondents' clubs have a hard rule when it comes to page count. But that's not to say that book length doesn't matter. ... continued

Regina Garay and Cindy Howard are cofounders of Paging Creatives, a Zoom-based book club for creative business owners.

Their book choices alternate between fiction, biographies and memoirs of artists or designers, and business books; and they’re open to new members!

In this Q&A they chat with BookBrowse publisher Davina Morgan-Witts about their group, providing invaluable insights for anyone running, or interested in running, a specialist book club. ... continued

BookBrowse members are eligible to request free copies of our book club books, but discussions are open to all, so please join us!

Click the button below to see our complete lineup of upcoming discussion titles to look forward to this fall.

If you would like to receive a message when a particular discussion opens, you can sign up for a one-time notification. You can also find inspiration for your book club among our more than 200 past discussions.

Usually published once a month, Book Club News is one of BookBrowse's four free newsletters. We also publish BookBrowse Highlights every Thursday, Publishing This Week every Sunday; and Librarian News monthly.