Honest Dog Books

07/29/2026

Jess from Gateway Arch National Park visited the store and bought the HDB shop dogs official Bark Ranger tags! Thanks Jess! ❤️

07/21/2026

Our July Picks of the Month. One fiction, the other nonfiction, both are set in the Cairngorms in Scotland.

Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy is a modern story of wolf reintroduction — the wolves, biologists, and townspeople. Nuanced, complicated characters, mystery, and wolf biology rolled into one fantastic novel.

The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd was during World War II, but Shepherd’s manuscript lay untouched for almost four decades, nearly lost to time, before it was finally published. Part memoir, field notes, and nature reading — it’s a cheap way to get to Scotland.

07/10/2026

Love this!

Back of the net …

07/06/2026

There are dogs who will follow you
perpetually and as gladly
as if it were their purpose in life,
at least while in the act of following you.

Other dogs enjoy being followed.
They sniff around, look back, then run ahead.

W. B. Yeats, so monumentally heartsick,
spent his boyhood summers
following a black dog and a white dog
around the hilly Irish countryside,
as if that were the purpose of his life,
which it might have been at the time.

Clearly, there are worse practices
than spending your time following a dog
whichever way she may roam
into the woods or across a stream.

How would it be possible
to slap a child or smuggle arms
to a band of wrathful guerrillas
if you’re busy keeping up with a dog?

So, instead of following your bliss,
follow around some lighthearted dog.

Surely, it’s better than doing nothing,
if anything were better than doing nothing,

which, setting dogs aside for now,
is said to be the best thing one can do
or not do, but in a positive way, forever, amen.

—former poet laureate Billy Collins

07/03/2026

I personally vote to keep this democratic experiment going.

Stop by this weekend to see our window display, buy some books, listen to live music, get a drink, eat a Lyla’s pizza or just vibe.