(Mostly) nonfiction books about bears!
created by sophbean
last updated November, 2026
Spirit Bear: Encounters with the White Bear of the Western Rainforest
Charles Russell
Grizzled: Love Letters to 50 of North America's Least Understood Animals
Jason Bittel
Botschafter des Waldes: Was uns BĂ€ren ĂŒber uns selbst und unseren Umgang mit der Natur verraten (German Edition)
Michaela Skuban
Golden King of the Forest: The Lore of the Northern Bear
Juha Y. PentikÀinen
The Great Bear: A Thematic Anthology of Oral Poetry in the Finno-Ugrian Languages
Lauri Honko
Black Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival
Trina Moyles
Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon
Michael Engelhard
No Word for Wilderness: Italy's Grizzlies and the Race to Save the Rarest Bears on Earth
Roger Thompson
A Shape in the Dark: Living and Dying with Brown Bears
Bjorn Dihle
Die Seele des BĂ€ren. Unser Leben mit den Grizzlys von Kamtschatka
Charlie Russell
Speaking of Bears: The Bear Crisis and a Tale of Rewilding from Yosemite, Sequoia, and Other National Parks
Rachel Mazur
What the Bears Know: How I Found Truth and Magic in America's Most Misunderstood CreaturesâA Memoir by Animal Planet's "The Bear Whisperer"
Steve Searles
The Bears of Brooks Falls: Wildlife and Survival on Alaska's Brooks River
Michael Fitz
One of Us: A Biologist's Walk Among Bears
Barrie K. Gilbert
Grizzly Confidential: An Astounding Journey into the Secret Life of North Americaâs Most Fearsome Predator
Kevin Grange
Rescuing the Spectacled Bear
Stephen Fry
The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal
Vicki Constantine Croke
The Bear: History of a Fallen King
Michel Pastoureau
Shardik
Richard Adams
Down From The Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear
Bryce Andrews
Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
Gloria Dickie
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