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Posted on August 21, 2019 at 8:31 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
We admit it — we’re crazy cat people over here.
And it turns out, a fair share of our fans are, as well. (Clearly, great minds think alike.)
So if there’s no such thing as “too much cat talk” for you, you’ve come to the right post.
First, the results of our International Cat Day poll of the best felines in literature.
We weren’t surprised to see Koko and Yum Yum (from The Cat Who ... series), Dewey (as in the titular library cat), any character from T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, Sneaky Pie Brown (Rita Mae Brown’s co-author), and Polar Bear (from The Cat Who Came For Christmas).
Nor were children’s classics neglected: the Cheshire Cat and Dinah (Alice's cat), Puss in Boots, and the Cat in the Hat.
But, naturally, you provided several recommendations that we had either forgotten or weren’t even aware of:
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Zanth, from the Celta series by Robin D. Owens.
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Galahad, from the In Death series by JD Robb, whose nominator gave him props for being “heroic, yet infinitely lazy and obsessed with stealing bacon.”
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Diesel, from the Cat in the Stacks series by Miranda James.
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Richard Parker, from Life of Pi by Yann Martel (our pick for most unexpected answer!).
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The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr, by E.T.A. Hoffmann.
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Behemoth, from The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.
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Hercules and Owen, from the Magical Cats series by Sofie Kelly.
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Pixel, from The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Robert A. Heinlein.
And for the younger readers ...
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Pyewacket, from the book of the same name by Rosemary Weir.
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The title character of the Pete the Cat series
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Bastet, the family cat from the Amelia Peabody series.
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Dragon, from the Rats of NIMH series.
Not long after we asked about cats in books, we also requested some help with cats on books — and, again, you delivered, with plenty of adorable photos of your kitties reading with you!