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What it's about
After World War II, James Herriot returns from the Royal Air Force to his veterinary practice in Darrowby, in the Yorkshire Dales, and to his wife Helen and their growing family. The farm work is still hard and often comic: difficult calvings, stubborn farmers, beloved dogs and their eccentric owners. He also travels abroad for the first time, accompanying livestock on a ship to the Soviet Union and on a flight to Turkey.
Why it's worth reading
It spent weeks at #1 on the New York Times list. It's the fourth of Herriot's beloved memoirs, warm, funny and full of affection.
You'll love it if you liked
All Things Bright and Beautiful, All Things Wise and Wonderful or Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Good to know
It can be read on its own, but All Creatures Great and Small is the place to start. Each chapter is a self-contained story.
By the numbers
- Readers98 out of 100 · counts 40%+44
- Critics0 out of 100 · counts 14%+0
- Bestseller52 out of 100 · counts 32% (its stronger lane)+19
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Critics and Bestseller are two ways to earn a place: a book's stronger one counts more. Buzz rewards recent bestseller weeks and prizes, so older books start at zero.
#1 New York Times bestseller (9 weeks at #1). 4.45★ from 31K Goodreads ratings.
Where it ranks
- #45 of the 168 memoirs and biographies we rank
- #75 of the 519 classics we rank
- #198 of the 1,404 books we rank
Bestseller
- #1 New York Times bestseller (9 weeks at #1)
Reads as
True story, Moving
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