Put a Bird On It

Description
Recommend books that feature birds as characters, symbols or motifs.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
78,671 members
1,433 reviews
½ 4.4
5 Members
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2
The Raven [poem]
by Edgar Allan Poe
1,958 members
41 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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3
The Once and Future King
by T. H. White
15,357 members
206 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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Explanations
aulsmith: Really only the Sword in the Stone part (for my taste)
4
The Trumpet of the Swan
by E. B. White
11,693 members
79 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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5
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by Richard Bach
11,619 members
211 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
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Owl Moon
by Jane Yolen
8,534 members
365 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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7
The Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien
94,658 members
1,190 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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Explanations
sturlington: The eagles.
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Mockingjay
by Suzanne Collins
45,337 members
1,742 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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9
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
14,948 members
803 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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10
A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller Jr.
11,770 members
308 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Explanations
sturlington: The carrion birds as symbol of the endurance of nature.
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The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
9,172 members
280 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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12
Horton Hatches the Egg
by Dr. Seuss
4,463 members
56 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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13
A Feast for Crows
by George R. R. Martin
25,284 members
514 reviews
4
2 Members
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14
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
24,272 members
298 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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15
Sarah, Plain and Tall
by Patricia MacLachlan
10,976 members
287 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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16
The Sparrow
by Mary Doria Russell
7,729 members
406 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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17
Magpie Murders
by Anthony Horowitz
3,854 members
236 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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18
Birds Without Wings
by Louis de Bernières
2,658 members
50 reviews
4.1
2 Members
thorold, perennialreader
19
A Redbird Christmas
by Fannie Flagg
1,618 members
87 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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20
The Birds and Other Stories
by Daphne du Maurier
1,048 members
38 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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21
Hollow Kingdom
by Kira Jane Buxton
1,042 members
63 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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22
The Bird's Nest
by Shirley Jackson
556 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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23
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
by Dubravka Ugrešić
423 members
22 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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24
The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
9,864 members
467 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
sturlington
25
Flaubert's Parrot
by Julian Barnes
3,939 members
73 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
26
The Final Solution. A Story of Detection
by Michael Chabon
3,701 members
155 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
sturlington
27
Bird Box
by Josh Malerman
3,273 members
256 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
28
Nights at the Circus
by Angela Carter
2,670 members
52 reviews
3.9
Member
thorold
29
Acceptance
by Jeff VanderMeer
2,571 members
134 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
30
Birds of America: Stories
by Lorrie Moore
2,455 members
49 reviews
4
Member
sturlington
31
The Fledgling
by Jane Langton
2,258 members
16 reviews
3.8
Member
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32
Death and the Penguin
by Andreï Kourkov
2,008 members
81 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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33
The Phoenix and the Carpet
by E. Nesbit
1,904 members
19 reviews
3.9
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Classic late-Victorian children's book featuring a phoenix
34
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
by Kate Wilhelm
1,786 members
66 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
35
Two Caravans
by Marina Lewycka
1,393 members
62 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Unpleasantly graphic descriptions of working in a chicken-processing plant
36
Bellman & Black
by Diane Setterfield
1,379 members
169 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
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37
Pigeon Post
by Arthur Ransome
960 members
18 reviews
4.2
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Young miners use pigeons as messengers
38
Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead
by Sara Gran
915 members
87 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
39
Coot Club
by Arthur Ransome
872 members
14 reviews
4
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Bird-protection in the Norfolk Broads in the 30s
40
Four and Twenty Blackbirds
by Cherie Priest
767 members
34 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
41
Great Northern?
by Arthur Ransome
708 members
8 reviews
4.1
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Twitchers vs. evil egg-collectors in the Highlands
42
The Cry of the Owl
by Patricia Highsmith
674 members
20 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
43
Love Among the Chickens
by P. G. Wodehouse
620 members
33 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Incompetents start a chicken-farm at Lyme Regis
44
The Pilgrim Hawk
by Glenway Wescott
467 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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45
The Silent Land
by Graham Joyce
465 members
51 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
46
Freddy Goes to Florida
by Walter R. Brooks
417 members
9 reviews
3.9
Member
aulsmith
Explanations
aulsmith: Two chickens
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The Swallows
by Lisa Lutz
393 members
40 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
48
Last of the Curlews
by Fred Bodsworth
170 members
1 review
4.1
Member
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49
The Blackbirder
by Dorothy B. Hughes
160 members
9 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
sturlington
50
Arnie the Darling Starling
by Margarete Sigl Corbo
80 members
2 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
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51
The Hollywood Dodo
by Geoff Nicholson
37 members
1 review
½ 2.4
Member
sturlington
52
Harry Potter (Books 1-7)
by J. K. Rowling
12,419 members
171 reviews
½ 4.6
Member
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