“What are the best books about or featuring Elephants?” We looked at 213 of the top Elephant books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 20 titles, all appearing on 2 or more “Best Elephant” book lists, are ranked below by how many lists they appear on. The remaining 175+ titles, as well as the lists we used are in alphabetical order at the bottom of the page.
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Reveals the story of a retired circus trainer who sold his two elephants, stole them back when he realized they were being mistreated, and–with the help of the circus underground–dodged the FBI for five years. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo. Tour.
After ten-year-old Hastin’s family borrows money to pay for his sister’s hospital bill, he leaves his village in northern India to take a job as an elephant keeper and work off the debt. He thinks it will be an adventure, but he isn’t prepared for the cruel circus owner. The crowds that come to the circus see a lively animal who plays soccer and balances on milk bottles, but Hastin sees Nandita, a sweet elephant and his best friend, who is chained when she’s not performing and hurt with a hook until she learns tricks perfectly. Hastin protects Nandita as best as he can, knowing that the only way they will both survive is if he can find a way for them to escape.
A book comes along like this once in a lifetime. You read it as a small child, or even as a adult, and never forget the images it conjures up, of a wonderful Englishman who lives in the mysterious forests of faraway Burma and of the kind native people who teach him about their lovely country. But most of all, you never forget the elephants! For this is a story about those magnificent creatures. Though he was officially known as Lt. Colonel J.H. Williams, the author was known to the world at large as “Elephant Bill”. That is because he spent 25 years living with the elephants in the mountains and forests of Burma. There he trained them to haul teak logs out of the isolated jungles. Yet this is also a story of great courage because when the Second World War struck, it also came to Burma. The Japanese Imperial Army planned to confiscate the Burmese elephants, drafting them to make the bridges and railways they needed to invade India. When he learned of these plans to put his beloved animals to a war-like purpose, Elephant Bill knew what had to be done. The mighty kings of the jungle had to be evacuated to safety.Personal story of Colonel Williams’ adventures in Burma. A bit tedious but quite interesting to read about his involvement with working elephants.
An elephant never forgets . . . but can she dream? For forty-one years, Samson Brown has been caring for Hannah, the lone elephant at the down-at-the-heels Max L. Biedelman Zoo. Having vowed not to retire until an equally loving and devoted caretaker is found to replace him, Sam rejoices when smart, compassionate Neva Wilson is hired as the new elephant keeper. But Neva quickly discovers what Sam already knows: that despite their loving care, Hannah is isolated from other elephants and her feet are nearly ruined from standing on hard concrete all day. Using her contacts in the zookeeping world, Neva and Sam hatch a plan to send Hannah to an elephant sanctuary–just as the zoo’s angry, unhappy director launches an aggressive revitalization campaign that spotlights Hannah as the star attraction, inextricably tying Hannah’s future to the fate of the Max L. Biedelman Zoo. A charming, poignant, and captivating novel certain to enthrall readers of Water for Elephants, Diane Hammond’s Hannah’s Dream is a beautifully told tale rich in heart, humor, and intelligence.
For many years, elephants have been exhibited in zoos and parks all over the world. This is the true story of how they were cared for, handled, and trained during the time the author worked as an elephant keeper at the San Diego Wild Animal Park. For the first time, the public can get a behind the scenes look at the daily life of captive elephants.
Spanning several decades and three continents, Modoc is one of the most amazing true animal stories ever told. Raised together in a small German circus town, a boy and an elephant formed a bond that would last their entire lives, and would be tested time and again; through a near-fatal shipwreck in the Indian Ocean, an apprenticeship with the legendary Mahout elephant trainers in the Indian teak forests, and their eventual rise to circus stardom in 1940s New York City. Modoc is a captivating true story of loyalty, friendship, and high adventure, to be treasured by animal lovers everywhere.
With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple suffers attacks of hunger that drive them to hold up a McDonald’s in the middle of the night; and a young woman discovers that she has become irresistible to a little green monster who burrows up through her backyard. By turns haunting and hilarious, The Elephant Vanishes is further proof of Murakami’s ability to cross the border between separate realities — and to come back bearing treasure.
Because of his ‘satiable curtiosity about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant’s child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks.
With a single hand, he can pull two palm trees to the ground. If he had two hands, he could tear the sky . . . So unfolds a Yoruba poem celebrating the largest, most powerful, and one of the smartest creatures to walk the planet: the elephant. In this richly detailed exploration of the natural history and troubled fate of both the African and Asian species of elephant, noted wildlife biologist and author Douglas Chadwick travels the world to acquaint us with these awesome giants. Through visits to India, Siberia, Botswana, Thailand, Malaysia, Kenya, and even an American zoo, Chadwick illustrates the pivotal role the elephant plays in shaping and balancing not only the ecosystems it calls home, but also the livelihoods of a wide array of people. We travel to East Africa and join elephant families on the savannas of Amboseli Reserve in the shadow of Kilimanjaro. In the thick jungles of the Congo Basin, Chadwick leads us down pygmy footpaths on the trail of the elusive forest elephant. In Asia we experience a day in the life of a working elephant at an Indian timber camp, and take a raft trip to transplant problem elephants to remote areas of the Malaysian rainforest. At the zoo, we watch a four-ton artist take brush in trunk and paint a canvas with delicate strokes.
They say that diplomacy is a gentle art. That its finest practitioners are subtle, sophisticated individuals for whom nuance and subtext are meat and drink. And that mastering it is a lifetime’s work. But you do need a certain inclination in that direction. It’s not something you can just pick up on the job. Which is a shame if you find yourself dropped unaccountably into a position of some significant diplomatic responsibility. If you don’t really do diplomacy or haven’t been to school with the right foreign bigwigs or aren’t even sure whether a nod is as good as a wink to anyone, sighted or otherwise, then things are likely to go wrong. It’s just a question of how badly…
In a highly awaited new novel, Kate DiCamillo conjures a haunting fable about trusting the unexpected — and making the extraordinary come true. What if? Why not? Could it be? When a fortuneteller’s tent appears in the market square of the city of Baltese, orphan Peter Augustus Duchene knows the questions that he needs to ask: Does his sister still live? And if so, how can he find her? The fortuneteller’s mysterious answer (an elephant! An elephant will lead him there!) sets off a chain of events so remarkable, so impossible, that you will hardly dare to believe it’s true. With atmospheric illustrations by fine artist Yoko Tanaka, here is a dreamlike and captivating tale that could only be narrated by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo. In this timeless fable, she evokes the largest of themes — hope and belonging, desire and compassion — with the lightness of a magician’s touch.
Winner of the 2007 BookBrowse Award for Most Popular Book. An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of Riding Lessons. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, drifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there that he meets Marlena, the beautiful young star of the equestrian act, who is married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. He also meets Rosie, an elephant who seems untrainable until he discovers a way to reach her. Beautifully written, Water for Elephants is illuminated by a wonderful sense of time and place. It tells a story of a love between two people that overcomes incredible odds in a world in which even love is a luxury that few can afford.
This national bestseller exploring the complex emotional lives of animals was hailed as “a masterpiece” by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and as “marvelous” by Jane Goodall. The popularity of When Elephants Weep has swept the nation, as author Jeffrey Masson appeared on Dateline NBC, Good Morning America, and was profiled in People for his ground-breaking and fascinating study. Not since Darwin’s The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals has a book so thoroughly and effectively explored the full range of emotions that exist throughout the animal kingdom. From dancing squirrels to bashful gorillas to spiteful killer whales, Masson and coauthor Susan McCarthy bring forth fascinating anecdotes and illuminating insights that offer powerful proof of the existence of animal emotion. Chapters on love, joy, anger, fear, shame, compassion, and loneliness are framed by a provocative re-evaluation of how we treat animals, from hunting and eating them to scientific experimentation. Forming a complete and compelling picture of the inner lives of animals, When Elephants Weep assures that we will never look at animals in the same way again.
With Lizzie’s father fighting in World War II, her mother takes on the job of a zoo keeper to provide for her family. Lizzie, her mother, and her eight-year-old brother Karli have become especially attached to an orphaned elephant named Marlene. The bombing of Dresden is imminent and soon, so the zoo director explains that as a precautionary measure all the animals must be destroyed so that they’re not running wild through the city. Lizzie’s mother persuades the director to allow Marlene, the elephant, to come stay in the family’s garden. As predicted, Dresden is bombed, and the family, including Marlene, is forced from the city. Lizzie and her family aren’t alone. Thousands of Dresden residents are fleeing to find somewhere safe to stay. Lizzie’s mother has to find a different route out of the city to keep the elephant and the children safe from harm. Once they reach the abandoned home of their relatives, they come across Peter, a Canadian navigator who, by putting himself at risk of capture to save the family, gains their trust. This unlikely grouping of family, elephant, and enemy turned ally come together beautifully to illustrate the importance of love, resolve, and hope.
Cynthia Moss has studied the elephants in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park for over twenty-seven years. Her long-term research has revealed much of what we now know about these complex and intelligent animals. Here she chronicles the lives of the members of the T families led by matriarchs Teresia, Slit Ear, Torn Ear, Tania, and Tuskless. With a new afterword catching up on the families and covering current conservation issues, Moss’s story will continue to fascinate animal lovers. “One is soon swept away by this ‘Babar’ for adults.
“Elephant” contains the most marvelous stories and history about these mysterious behemoths, from Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps to Barnum’s Jumbo.
A thrilling journey into the minds of African elephants as they struggle to survive. If, as many recent nonfiction bestsellers have revealed, animals possess emotions and awareness, they must also have stories. In “The White Bone,” a novel imagined entirely from the perspective of African elephants, Barbara Gowdy creates a world whole and separate that yet illuminates our own. For years, young Mud and her family have roamed the high grasses, swamps, and deserts of the sub-Sahara. Now the earth is scorched by drought, and the mutilated bodies of family and friends lie scattered on the ground, shot down by ivory hunters. Nothing-not the once familiar terrain, or the age-old rhythms of life, or even memory itself-seems reliable anymore. Yet a slim prophecy of hope is passed on from water hole to water hole: the sacred white bone of legend will point the elephants toward the Safe Place. And so begins a quest through Africa”s vast and perilous plains-until at last the survivors face a decisive trial of loyalty and courage.
On India’s northeast frontier, a killer elephant is on the rampage, stalking Assam’s paddy fields and murdering dozens of farmers. Local forestry officials, powerless to stop the elephant, call in one of India’s last licensed elephant hunters and issue a warrant for the rogue’s destruction. Reading about the ensuing hunt in a Delhi newspaper, journalist Tarquin Hall flies to Assam to investigate. To the Elephant Graveyard is the compelling account of the search for a killer elephant in the northeast corner of India, and a vivid portrait of the Khasi tribe, who live intimately with the elephants. Though it seems a world of peaceful coexistence between man and beast, Hall begins to see that the elephants are suffering, having lost their natural habitat to the destruction of the forests and modernization. Hungry, confused, and with little forest left to hide in, herds of elephants are slowly adapting to domestication, but many are resolute and furious. Often spellbinding with excitement, like “a page-turning detective tale” (Publishers Weekly), To the Elephant Graveyard is also intimate and moving, as Hall magnificently takes us on a journey to a place whose ancient ways are fast disappearing with the ever-shrinking forest.
The educational and inspirational biography of Joyce Poole describes the life of a courageous woman who struggled with loneliness, sexism, and the threat of bandit-poachers to make her contribution to the conservation of the endangered African elephant.
A natural history rich in observation of the animal world and how humans participate in it, Silent Thunder is also a passionate story of scientist Katy Payne’s spiritual quest as she turns a keen eye on her role in this world. Starting with the story of her revolutionary discovery that elephants use infrasonic sounds–sounds below the range of human hearing–to communicate, Payne shares what she learned from her fascinating field research in Africa, research that reveals new insights into elephants’ social lives.
| # | Book | Author | Lists |
| (Titles Appear On 1 List Each) | |||
| 21 | A Most Dangerous Journey: The Life of an African Elephant | Roger A. Caras | Goodreads |
| 22 | A Son of the Circus | John Irving | Goodreads |
| 23 | A Viagem do Elefante | José Saramago | Goodreads |
| 24 | A wild elephant at camp | The Alternative | |
| 25 | Aana and Chena | The Alternative | |
| 26 | African Elephants | B.F. Beebe | Goodreads |
| 27 | Akimbo and the elephants | Alexander McCall Smith | The Alternative |
| 28 | All Aboard | The Alternative | |
| 29 | Among the Elephants | Iain & Oria Douglas-Hamilton | Elehost |
| 30 | An audience with an elephant | Byron Rogers | Ranker |
| 31 | An Elephant Called Slowly | Ernest Dudley | Goodreads |
| 32 | An Elephant for Aristotle | L. Sprague de Camp | Ranker |
| 33 | An Elephant in the Room: The Science and Well-Being of Elephants in Captivity | multiple contributors | Global Elephants |
| 34 | An Elephant’s Life: An Intimate Portrait from Africa | Caitlin O’Connell | Goodreads |
| 35 | An Inconvenient Elephant | Judy Reene Singer | Goodreads |
| 36 | Animal Liberation | Peter Singer | Global Elephants |
| 37 | Are you ready to play outside? | Mo Willems | BTSB |
| 38 | Aunt Augusta’s Elephant | Geoffrey Trease | Ranker |
| 39 | B is for Babar | The Alternative | |
| 40 | Babar And The Succotash Bird | De Brunhoff, Laurent | Biblio |
| 41 | Baby Bahadur books | The Alternative | |
| 42 | Babylon’s Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo | Lawrence Anthony | Goodreads |
| 43 | Bad Elephant Far Stream | Samuel Hawley | Goodreads |
| 44 | Bandoola | WILLIAMS, J.H | Biblio |
| 45 | Battle for the Elephants | Iain & Oria Douglas-Hamilton | Elehost |
| 46 | Battle for the President’s Elephants: Life, Lunacy Elation in the African Bush | Sharon Pincott | Goodreads |
| 47 | Behemoth (Mammoth, #1-3) | Stephen Baxter | Goodreads |
| 48 | Betty and Friends: My Life at the Zoo | Betty White | Goodreads |
| 49 | Big and Little are best friends | Michael Garland | BTSB |
| 50 | Big guy took my ball! | Mo Willems | BTSB |
| 51 | Blood and bone (Bravelands #3) | Erin Hunter | BTSB |
| 52 | Broken pride (PLAYAWAY ®) | Erin Hunter | BTSB |
| 53 | Bumble bugs and elephants | Margaret Wise Brown | Ranker |
| 54 | Can I play too? | Mo Willems | BTSB |
| 55 | Can somebody please scratch my back? | Jory John | BTSB |
| 56 | Can You Move Like an Elephant | The Alternative | |
| 57 | Cao Chong weighs an elephant | Songju Ma Daemicke | BTSB |
| 58 | Captain Awesome and the missing elephants | Stan Kirby | BTSB |
| 59 | Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A True Story of Resilience and Recovery | Andrew Westoff | Global Elephants |
| 60 | Code of honor (Bravelands #2) | Erin Hunter | BTSB |
| 61 | Cowboy and His Elephant | Malcolm MacPherson | Goodreads |
| 62 | Dancing Around the Elephant | Bruce Muirhead | Ranker |
| 63 | David Shepherd: The Man And His Paintings | David Shepherd | Goodreads |
| 64 | Dear elephant, sir | Walker, Clive. Antrobus, Sally | Biblio |
| 65 | Death at Seaworld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity | David Kirby | Global Elephants |
| 66 | Debo compartir mi helado? (SPANISH) | Mo Willems | BTSB |
| 67 | Der Hundertjährige, der aus dem Fenster stieg und verschwand | Jonas Jonasson | Goodreads |
| 68 | Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy | Mathew Scully | Global Elephants |
| 69 | Don’t Look Behind You! A Safari Guide’s Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos | Peter Allison | Goodreads |
| 70 | Dumbo, the Flying Elephant | Helen Aberson | Ranker |
| 71 | Dumbo: A Little Golden Book | Walt Disney Company | Goodreads |
| 72 | Elephant | L. Sprague de Camp | Ranker |
| 73 | Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II | Vicki Constantine Croke | Goodreads |
| 74 | Elephant Dance | Tammie Matson | Goodreads |
| 75 | Elephant Dawn: The Inspirational Story of Thirteen Years Living with Elephants in the African Wilderness | Sharon Pincott | Goodreads |
| 76 | Elephant Destiny: Biography of an Endangered Species in Africa | Martin Meredith | Global Elephants |
| 77 | Elephant from Baghdad | Mary Tavener Holmes | BTSB |
| 78 | Elephant in the dark | Mina Javaherbin | BTSB |
| 79 | Elephant in the garden | Michael Morpurgo | BTSB |
| 80 | Elephant Journey: The True Story of Three Zoo Elephants and Their Rescue from Captivity | Rob Laidlaw | Goodreads |
| 81 | Elephant keeper : caring for orphaned elephants in Zambia | Margriet Ruurs | BTSB |
| 82 | Elephant Moon | John Sweeney | Goodreads |
| 83 | Elephant Quest | Ted Lewin | Ranker |
| 84 | Elephant Run | Roland Smith | Goodreads |
| 85 | Elephant Talk-Ann Downer: The Surprising Science of Elephant Communication | Ann Downer | Global Elephants |
| 86 | Elephantom | Ross Collins | BTSB |
| 87 | Elephantoms: Tracking the Elephant | Lyall Watson | Global Elephants |
| 88 | Elephants and Egotists In Search of Samorn of the Adelaide Zoo | Sumerling, Patricia | Biblio |
| 89 | Elephants and Ethics: Toward a Morality of Coexistence | Christen Wemmer, Catherine Christen | Global Elephants |
| 90 | Elephants Can Remember | Agatha Christie | Ranker |
| 91 | Elephants cannot dance! | Mo Willems | BTSB |
| 92 | Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments | Alex Boese | Goodreads |
| 93 | Elephants, Ancient And Modern | Frederick Cameron Sillar | Goodreads |
| 94 | Elephants: Majestic Creatures of the Wild | Frank Knight | Goodreads |
| 95 | Elephants: The Deciding Decade edited | Ronald Orenstein | Elehost |
| 96 | Ella who? | Linda Ashman | BTSB |
| 97 | Ellie the Elephant (Illustrated Edition, World Adventurers for Kids #2) | M.G. Edwards | Goodreads |
| 98 | Elmer’s Christmas | David McKee | BTSB |
| 99 | Elmer’s Opposites | The Alternative | |
| 100 | End of the Game | Beard, Peter | Biblio |
| 101 | Estamos en un libro! (SPANISH) | Mo Willems | BTSB |
| 102 | Ethics of Captivity | Lori Gruen | Global Elephants |
| 103 | Eye to Eye: Intimate Encounters with the Animal World | Frans Lanting | Goodreads |
| 104 | Eyewitness: Elephant | Ian Redmond | Global Elephants |
| 105 | Five Minutes’ Peace | Jill Murphy | The Alternative |
| 106 | Footfall | Larry Niven | Goodreads |
| 107 | Gajapati Kulapati | The Alternative | |
| 108 | God’s Elephants | Michael Tod | Goodreads |
| 109 | Gods in Chains | Rhea Ghosh | Global Elephants |
| 110 | Het wezen van de olifant | Toon Tellegen | Goodreads |
| 111 | Histoire de Babar, le petit elephant | Jean de Brunhoff | Ranker |
| 112 | Horton Hears a Who | The Alternative | |
| 113 | How elephants lost their wings | The Alternative | |
| 114 | How to Build an Elephant | Mark Schreiber | Ranker |
| 115 | How to weigh an elephant? | The Alternative | |
| 116 | Humphrey’s Christmas | The Alternative | |
| 117 | I Loved Rogues:The Life of an Elephant Tramp | George Washington Lewis | Global Elephants |
| 118 | Icebones (Mammoth, #3) | Stephen Baxter | Goodreads |
| 119 | Ivory, Horn and Blood: Behind the Elephant and Rhinoceros Poaching Crisis | Ronald Orenstein | Goodreads |
| 120 | Ivory’s Ghosts: The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants | John Frederick Walker | Global Elephants |
| 121 | Jamba the Elephant | Theodore J. Waldeck | Goodreads |
| 122 | Jumbo Ghosts: The Dangerous Life of Elephants in the Zoo | Michael Schmidt | Global Elephants |
| 123 | Jumbo: The Unauthorised Biography of a Victorian Sensation | John Sutherland | Goodreads |
| 124 | Just elephants.; Preface | His Majesty the Emperor Bao Dai | Biblio |
| 125 | Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the World’s Premier School for Exotic Animal Trainers | Amy Sutherland | Goodreads |
| 126 | Lai-lai the baby elephant | The Alternative | |
| 127 | Larger Than Life | Jodi Picoult | Goodreads |
| 128 | Leaving Time | Jodi Picoult | Goodreads |
| 129 | Living next door to Alise | Anita Nair | The Alternative |
| 130 | Longtusk (Mammoth, #2) | Stephen Baxter | Goodreads |
| 131 | Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story | Daphne Sheldrick | Goodreads |
| 132 | Love, War, and Circuses: The Age-Old Relationship Between Elephants and Humans | Eric Scigliano | Global Elephants |
| 133 | Magnificient Makhna | The Alternative | |
| 134 | Mammoth | John Varley | Goodreads |
| 135 | Mammoth Hunt | John Blashford-Snell | Goodreads |
| 136 | Man equals man and The elephant calf | Bertolt Brecht | Ranker |
| 137 | Managing Elephants: An Introduction to Their Training and Management | Alan Roocroft | Global Elephants |
| 138 | Mango Elephants in the Sun: How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skin | Susana Herrera | Goodreads |
| 139 | Matriarch: Elephant vs. T-Rex | Roz Gibson | Goodreads |
| 140 | Me…Jane | Patrick McDonnell | Global Elephants |
| 141 | My friends in the city | The Alternative | |
| 142 | Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees | Roger Fouts | Global Elephants |
| 143 | No More The Tusker | G G Rushby | Biblio |
| 144 | Padma and the Elephant Sutra | W.L. Snowden | Goodreads |
| 145 | Planet Elephant | Tammie Matson | Goodreads |
| 146 | Queen of the Elephants | Mark Shand | Goodreads |
| 147 | Rattling the Cage | Steven M. Wise | Global Elephants |
| 148 | Rosy Is My Relative | Gerald Durrell | Goodreads |
| 149 | Rubber Dinosaurs and Wooden Elephants | L. Sprague de Camp | Ranker |
| 150 | Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People | Mark Owens | Goodreads |
| 151 | Serengeti Shall Not Die | Bernhard Grzimek | Goodreads |
| 152 | Shooting an Elephant | George Orwell | Ranker |
| 153 | Silverhair (Mammoth, #1) | Stephen Baxter | Goodreads |
| 154 | Still Life With Elephant | Judy Reene Singer | Goodreads |
| 155 | Storybook Elephants | Various | Biblio |
| 156 | Sunrise Song (Treasures of the Heart #4) | Catherine Palmer | Goodreads |
| 157 | Survivor’s Song | Delia Owens | Goodreads |
| 158 | That summer at Kalagarh | The Alternative | |
| 159 | The Ant and the Elephant | Bill Peet | Ranker |
| 160 | The Architect’s Apprentice | Elif Shafak | Goodreads |
| 161 | The Awareness | Gene Stone | Goodreads |
| 162 | The Blue Moon Circus | Michael Raleigh | Goodreads |
| 163 | The copper elephant | Adam Rapp | Ranker |
| 164 | The Cowboy and His Elephant | Malcolm MacPherson | Global Elephants |
| 165 | The elephant in the tree | The Alternative | |
| 166 | The Elephant Keeper | Christopher Nicholson | Goodreads |
| 167 | The elephant man | Ashley Montagu | Ranker |
| 168 | The Elephant Whisperer | Lawrence Anthony | Goodreads |
| 169 | The Elephants | Georges Blond | Goodreads |
| 170 | The Elephants and I: Pursuing a Dream In Troubled Zimbabwe | Sharon Pincott | Goodreads |
| 171 | The elephants of reckoning | Indran Amirthanayagam | Ranker |
| 172 | The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy | and Why They Matter | Global Elephants |
| 173 | The Encyclopedia Of Elephants Big Cats Bears & Whales | Barbara Taylor | Goodreads |
| 174 | The End of the Game: The Last Word from Paradise – A Pictoral Documentation of the origins, History and Prospects of the Big Game Africa | Peter H. Beard | Goodreads |
| 175 | The Eye of the Elephant : An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness | Elehost | |
| 176 | The firework-maker’s daughter | Phillip Pullman | The Alternative |
| 177 | The Games End | William Louis Gardner | Goodreads |
| 178 | The great American elephant chase | Gillian Cross | Ranker |
| 179 | The Great Elephant Chase | Gillian Cross | Ranker |
| 180 | The Ivory Needle | Leslie Miller | Goodreads |
| 181 | The Jungle Book | The Alternative | |
| 182 | The Last Elephant | Jeremy Gavron | Goodreads |
| 183 | The Last Wild Elephant | The Alternative | |
| 184 | The Life And Lore Of The Elephant | Robert Delort | Goodreads |
| 185 | The Life of the Elephant | Bradley Smith | Biblio |
| 186 | The rabbit in the moon | The Alternative | |
| 187 | The Secret Elephants: The Rediscovery of the World’s Most Southerly Elephants | Gareth Patterson | Goodreads |
| 188 | The Secret History of Kindness: Learning from How Dogs Learn | Melissa Holbrook Pierson | Global Elephants |
| 189 | The Stolen White Elephant | Mark Twain | Ranker |
| 190 | The Story of Babar | Jean de Brunhoff | Goodreads |
| 191 | The Ten Trusts; What We Must Do to Care for the Animals We Love. | Jane Goodall, Mark Bekoff | Global Elephants |
| 192 | The Third Elephant | Penny Dolan | The Alternative |
| 193 | The Tower of the Elephant | Robert E. Howard | Ranker |
| 194 | The Tsavo Story | Daphne Sheldrick | Elehost |
| 195 | The Tusk That Did the Damage | Tania James | Goodreads |
| 196 | The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra | Vaseem Khan | Goodreads |
| 197 | The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa’s Wildlife | Kobie Krüger | Goodreads |
| 198 | The Zookeeper’s Wife | Diane Ackerman | Goodreads |
| 199 | Through the Eyes of Ernest: A Memoir to Honor Elephants | D. McFee | Goodreads |
| 200 | Thunder (Thunder: An Elephant’s Journey, #1) | Erik Daniel Shein | Goodreads |
| 201 | To Fetch a Thief (A Chet and Bernie Mystery #3) | Spencer Quinn | Goodreads |
| 202 | To Save an Elephant: The Undercover Investigation Into the Illegal Ivory Trade | Dave Currey | Goodreads |
| 203 | Trackers: Elephant Trackers: Variety Fiction | Stephen Elboz | Ranker |
| 204 | Travels On My Elephant | Mark Shand | Goodreads |
| 205 | Travels with Tarra | Carol Buckley | Goodreads |
| 206 | Tusker Tales | The Alternative | |
| 207 | West with the Night | Beryl Markham | Goodreads |
| 208 | What shape is an elephant? | The Alternative | |
| 209 | When the Elephants Dance | Tess Uriza Holthe | Goodreads |
| 210 | Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance?: Inside IBM’s Historic Turnaround | Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. | Ranker |
| 211 | Wild Animal School | Jenny Lynne | Goodreads |
| 212 | Wild Orphans | Gerry Ellis | Goodreads |
| 213 | Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives | Thomas French | Goodreads |
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| Biblio | Elephants – New, used and rare books and ephemera at Biblio |
| BTSB | Elephants Fiction – Bound To Stay Bound Books, Inc. – Bookstore |
| Elehost | Great Books – Elephant Information Repository – Elehost Web Design |
| Global Elephants | Reading List – Global Sanctuary for Elephants |
| Goodreads | Elephant Books (106 books) – Goodreads |
| Ranker | List of 20+ Good Books With Elephant in the Title – Ranker |
| The Alternative | World Elephant Day: 32 elephant books for children | The Alternative |
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