This week’s topic is on animals from books (these could be mythical, real, main characters, sidekicks, companions/pets, shifters, etc.) I am so on this. I’m sticking to animals that are magical, or technological and some of them are sentient, more magical creatures than animals. Here are my top ten fantasy books with animals and creatures:

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in.

• Mogget and The Disreputable Dog from The Old Kingdom by Garth Nix. – Magical cat, magical dog, what’s not to love?

• The Companions from Valdemar by Mercedes Lackey – They look like beautiful horses, but they’re much more than that.

• Joanie, a fierce, energetic Raise hummingbird from The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz  – A mechanical companion that’s very sweet

• Temeraire from – Temeraire by Naomi Novik – A huge dragon the size of a ship.

• The dragons from Pemberly, Mr. Darcy’s Dragon by Maria Grace  – A lot dragons ranging from bird-size to house-size, added on to Pride and Prejudice.

• Ghost from Heartstrikers by Rachel Aaron – A cute and clever ghostly cat

• Hank from Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi – Alright, he’s just a regular dog, but he’s cute and friendly and trained to set off explosives. And there are other cat-like creatures that are also cute.

• The Aeslin Mice from InCryptid by Seanan McGuire – A race of very religious mice that live with the MC’s family and are too cute.

• The monsters from The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco – At a certain point in the book we see a necromancer and her resurrected bone monsters who like pets. It cute.

• All the cats in the Swashbuckling Cats anthology, edited by Rhonda Parrish – Pirate cats. Pirate – Cats.

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