The Best Werewolf Book Ever

[melannen]

What would you say is the Single Best Werewolf Novel Ever Written?

Feel free to rec even if you haven't read all that many; I haven't read that many either. Also: short stories, plays, poems, nonfiction, etc. are okay. I am not looking for TV, movies, or werewolf AU fanfic though.

But Dream's Library-style descriptions of the Best Werewolf Novel you wish had been written but haven't found yet are also okay. :D

Comments

[melannen]

I AM ENTIRELY SHOCKED! I would read your Ultimate Werewolf Novel in a heartbeat though. And Jim Butcher's werewolves were surprisingly good (but then anything that's does enough research to even have wolf-belts is several notches above the average werewolf book at the moment.)

[holyschist]

I don't remember Butcher's werewolves very well, just that I didn't shriek with irritation a lot while reading the books. (Mind, I also don't remember how much shrieking I did while reading Carrie Vaughn--although I did generally like the Kitty books of hers that I read, I think she did some of the things that irk me.)

I think it would be interesting to read a werewolf novel that has family-structured werewolves, which is true of a lot of smaller packs in the wild. Completely different from sticking a bunch of unrelated wolves together in a zoo.

(I like what Patricia Briggs does with werecoyotes. I don't like what she does with werewolves. Although come to think of it, I would totally read a werecoyote book based on the wolf-sized coyotes that started packing together in New York state and hunting deer.)