Best Bird Books of 2017

I don't usually post two days in a row but the start of the new year means it is time for all of the "best" lists to come out and I wanted to share this list of the top twelve bird books of 2017. The list was developed by Forbes and, as I have learned being on many book awards and best lists committees, is very subjective. The books are all non-fiction and memoir, although I've noticed a lot of birds in fiction this past year. They are also all for adults so the list doesn't consider the many really good books for kids that came out in 2017. Only Mozart's Starling is on my Kindle but I hope to read, and review, a few others from the list. And it will be interesting to see what books come out in 2018. I already have a few lined up! (Note also that one of the books, The Seabird's Cry, includes puffins, which I blogged about yesterday.) Happy reading!

Click on the link to go to the article and read the synopses but here are the titles:

1. Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird by Katie Fallon 
2. The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers by Adam Nicolson
3. How to Speak Chicken: Why Your Chickens Do What They Do & Say What They Say by Melissa Caughe
4. The Robin: A Biography by Stephen Moss
5. Mozart’s Starling by Lyanda Lynn Haupt 
6. The Wonder of Birds: What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future by Jim Robbins
7. Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World by Noah Strycker
8. Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation by Kyo Maclear
9. Flock Together: A Love Affair with Extinct Birds by B.J. Hollars
10. One More Warbler: A Life with Birds by Victor Emanuel and S. Kirk Walsh 
11. As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Birds & Books by Alex Preston and Neil Gower
12. The Curious Bird Lover’s Handbook by Niall Edworthy

Twelve Best Books about Birds--2017