Rita Mae Brown's 7 favorite books about animals

The feline-loving author recommends classic tales of foxes, frogs, birds, horses, and more

Author Rita Mae Brown is crazy about cats and mysteries, authoring works with playful titles like "The Purrfect Murder", "Hiss of Death" and her latest novel "The Big Cat Nap".

Aesop's Fables (Penguin, $13). Aesop, who's said to have been a slave who lived during the 6th century B.C., laid the cornerstone for fiction about animals. His fables use the nature of various beasts — the fox being my favorite — to illustrate truths about human life. The beauty of his work is that he is so concise.

On Horsemanship by Xenophon (CreateSpace, $9). This Greek commander truly understood horses and wrote a manual about training them that can still be used as a guide. Dazzled though we are by technology, horses are not: You'd best do things their way.

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