Read any great books recently about cats? They can be fiction, books about caring for cats, mystical or any subject at all.

Name the title of your book here, the author and why you liked or didn´t like the book.

My favorite cat books were Thomasina and The Abandoned (called Jennie in England) by Paul Gallico. I also love feline mysteries. My faves are Midnight Louie, Carole Nelson Douglas´s chat noir, who was a great fave of the Late Great Treat. I also love the Joe Grey and Dulcie ones by Shirley Rousseau Murphy and the MRS. Murphy, Tucker and Pewter ones by Sneaky Pie Brown and Rita Mae Brown.
As a writer, I´ve written many books and stories with cats as major characters but my last two books, BARQUE CATS, a collab with Anne McCaffrey (the author of the Pern books) and an unsold solo one with the working title SPAM´S MOGGYBLOG, have cats as the main characters. Needless to say, I like them too!

Books I think are worth reading.

Catnip for the Soul has heartwarming stories

Cat Owner´s Home Veterinary Hanbook (also in dog version) is thorough and has lots of good information in it.

Pet Prayers by Susan I. Bubbers has all kinds of prayers for your pets, for all kinds of situations and circumstances, and even has a burial/memorial service you can do for your pet. Susan Bubbers is an ordained minister with a love for animals.

277 Secrets Your Cat Wants You To Know (also in dog version) Hilarious!

A friend of mine, Emily writes books with mostly dogs as characters. One character is even a rainbow dog. She has some cats in her books. She has therapy dogs and I love to recogonize them from her books. I read them all and then I met her in Medical Transcription class. really cool.

I will try and remember her penn name. You should check these out.

My favorite cat books were Thomasina and The Abandoned (called Jennie in England) by Paul Gallico. I also love feline mysteries. My faves are Midnight Louie, Carole Nelson Douglas´s chat noir, who was a great fave of the Late Great Treat. I also love the Joe Grey and Dulcie ones by Shirley Rousseau Murphy and the MRS. Murphy, Tucker and Pewter ones by Sneaky Pie Brown and Rita Mae Brown.
As a writer, I´ve written many books and stories with cats as major characters but my last two books, BARQUE CATS, a collab with Anne McCaffrey (the author of the Pern books) and an unsold solo one with the working title SPAM´S MOGGYBLOG, have cats as the main characters. Needless to say, I like them too!
How does one get your books to read???

There are books by Lillian Jackson Braun...all mysteries featuring a newspaper reporter and his two Siamese. All the books´ titles start with "The cat who......"
There are probably about 30 of them. Great little mysteries, easy-reading. All books feature the same characters from the same small town.

Teri, your friend isn´t Susan Conant is she? She writes about dogs and did one with cats. I like the mysteries by Lillian Jackson Braun too but for me, the cats aren´t in the story enough--they´re just sort of clues sometimes.
That´s just my taste though and that´s speaking only as what I like in a cat mystery. It´s not like I don´t buy them all in hardback and read them right away because I do!
Teri, my solo books are mostly out of print at the moment but the collabs with Anne McCaffrey are all in print I think and all available at the bookstores--you look alphabetically under her name of course, cause M comes before S.
I´m also having some of my more popular books turned into ebooks and print on demand now that the rights have reverted to me. And I do have a solo paperback coming out at Christmas. If you want to know more about my books in general and some of the things I´ve written about,. I have a bibliography with synopses of them--actually, two bibliographies, one for my solo books ad one for the collabs with Anne.
http://www.eascarborough.com The book column is the middle one.

I just finished reading Legacy of the Cat by Gloria Stephens with great pictures by Tetsu Yamazaki. I finally understand all about breeds now as well as the great history of cats. I had always wondered how come such amazing creatures are hated by so many people. The book says that cats were revered by different ancient cultures until Christianity demonized them as part of a wider attack against pagan gods depicted as/with cats. They kinda got a bad rep from that time. In the country where I live, stray kitties are really hard to place because so many people thing they´re evil creatures.

Actually from histories that I read. in Medieval Europe at least, Christians and Pagans were equal opportunity cat tormentors. I´m trying to think of the name of the book. I have a whole bagful of cat books sitting across the room I am too lazy to look at. I think the whole cat hating thing and blaming it on religion probably has a lot to do with the saying "tyrants hate cats" because they´re hard to control.

I think the whole cat hating thing and blaming it on religion probably has a lot to do with the saying "tyrants hate cats" because they´re hard to control.
That makes a lot of sense.

Cause cats are good! I have some more books to recommend.THE UNADULTERATED CAT by Terry Pratchett and Gray Jolliffe

THE FOLKTALE CAT by Frank de Caro
THE MYTHOLOGY OF CATS Feline Legend and Lore Through the Ages by Gerald and Lorette Hausman

CATS AND PEOPLE by Frances and Richard Lockridge

THE CATSWOLD PORTAL (this is the original fantasy novel from which the Joe Grey and Dulcie mysteries came ) by Shirley Rousseau Murphy

THE ENCHANTED CAT by John Richard Stephens

The Wisdom of Yo Meow Ma A Spiritual Guide from the Ancient Chinese Philosopher Cat by Joanna Sandsmark

THE MYSTERIOUS MAGIKAL CAT by D.J. Conway

THE CAT IN MAGIC by M. Oldfield Howey

THE FUR PERSON by May Sarton

SECRETS OF THE CAT Its Lore Legend and Lives by Barbara Holland

Most of these are not novels. I have a lot on folklore and magic because I write fantasy and science fiction for a living and they´re research books. THE UNADULTERATED CAT is more of a fictionalized non fiction cat story and it´s great.

My book is Called Warriors: into the wild. Its about a Young cat called Rusty. He leaves his home and becomes Firepaw of the ThunderClan cats...Well, its on Firestars lookup, Erin Hunter I liked the book because The cats have their own idea of things, and they have feelings too...

Me again...i Also like "The cat who..."Series...I do not remember the author, i just remember the great detail and mystries the cat, KoKo had with Quill

Lilian Jackson Braun is the author of the Cat Who mysteries. I like them too but Koko and Yum Yum don´t get involved in the action enough to suit me lately. They´re more often the clue than the detectives. I still read every single one though, along with the Midnight Louies and Joe Greys and Mrs. Murphys.
I´ve heard Warriors is a good series and very popular.

OOOOH! Tad Williams, Tailchaser´s song. An adventure book for kittas. In it, he goes on a quest to faraway, strange and foreign lands, and learns the magick he needs to fill and feed his restless nature.

Written in a plain, straightforward and playful manner. I think it was printed in the 80´s, may be out of print now.

Yes, I remember that book. There is another good fantasy one, Matilda, by Peter Beagle. It starts with a cat in quarantine before she gets into the fantasy part.

Didn´t Marion Zimmer Bradley do a "Cat who...." mystery book? I remember it was a thin volume, and illustrated by someone - and it wasn´t Lillian Jackson Braun, it was an author I have on my shelves....and I found it in the library on a fluke. I think it was MZB, but could have maybe been Anne McCaffrey?

Just looked up Warriors (yes! I can get it in Oz) and Peter Beagle at my local library. They don´t have Matilda, but they have Tamsin, which - I think - features a ghost cat that the "pet" cat is chasing. Any reviews of that one darcyd?

Hi, JanCarol,
Anne McCaffrey wrote a little gift book called NO ONE NOTICED THE CAT and maybe another cat book as well. I don´t know of any MZB did though she did LIKE cats.
Maybe it WAS Tamsin that was the name of Beagle´s cat book. I´m such a big help. And yes, I recommend it along with anything else Beagle´s ever written. He´s an amazing writer.
Terry Pratchett has two cat books--one is THE UNADULTERATED CAT by Pratchett and another author and then there´s a very funny one set in the Disc World called MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS. It´s sort of a cross between Puss N Boots (a con cat) and THE PIED PIPER OF HAMLIN. Pratchett is always delightful.

Agreed, you can never go wrong with Pratchett. I´m a big Pratchett fan. Sadly, he has been diagnosed with Alzheimers - can you imagine a mind like his facing that? He says he will continue as before until he can no longer, but has let his fan base know. I frequently attend Pratchett plays - converted for theatre use. They have a LOT of scene changes, and sometimes it can be awkward, but it´s a great way to share the Pratchett classics I love with hubby, who hasn´t the time to read all 60 (or however many it is) of the books.

Yes, it was "No One Noticed the Cat." That was fun, if brief.

I´ve never been able to go to one of the plays. I think the book is more like THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS INCREDIBLE EDUCATED RODENTS than just M and the mousies. I feel the same way you do about him getting Alzheimers. All these people who say you need to keep your mind active to prevent it must be wrong because there has seldom been a more active mind than his.