There’s a lot going on right now.
Time to curl up for a bit.
Books of the canine persuasion can get a little ruff, but these novels are seriously good.

Credit: Illustration by EW
Here are a few favorites.
(Dog-earing permitted.)
Middle-aged layabout Gil learns to communicate with dogs, including his alpha canine, Jimmy.
So kicks off the messy reunion between not one but two wild clans.
Biloxi is slow and sticky, just like its Southern setting, and rich with observational humor.
That’s realism, folks.
Nunez’s lauded, darkly funny saga of an aging writer and the Great (Great!)
Allow Enzo, by now one of pop culture’smore famous pups, to tell you his life story.
but has a lot to learn from his master, racecar driver Denny, about how to be one.
Zigman calls this witty novel “semi-autobiographical fiction.”
(And, bonus: Michael Urie’s audiobook narration is hysterically good.)
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