What the Cats of Neko Atsume Are Reading

Name: Snowball
Personality: mellow

While lounging around on her favorite Snowy Pillow, Snowball enjoys reading the classic novel Tender Is the Belly by F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

Name: Shadow
Personality: peculiar

Friends call him a weirdo, but Shadow doesn’t mind; his favorite genre is Weird and when he needs to get away he just dips into Kelly Link’s Catnip for Beginners

 

Name: Fred
Personality: lady-killer

Currently, Fred is reading Shakespeare’s classic The Maiming of the Shrew—he’s hoping to pick up some tips

 

Name: Joe DiMeowgio
Personality: team player

When not batting at balls, Joe DiMeowgio enjoys reading up on his favorite game; he’s currently claws deep in Michael Lewis’s Yarnball

 

Name: Senor Don Gato
Personality: scheming

Senor Don Gato loves a good adventure novel, especially if it involves a little romance; his favorite classic is The Catnip of Monte Cristo

 

Name: Xerxes IX
Personality: regal

Xerxes will read anything anything about royalty, especially if it’s bloody; his current favorite is the latest in the Song of Mice & Wire series A Frolic of Felines

 

Name: Chairman Meow
Personality: boorish

Hemingway’s classic A Farewell to Yarns keeps Chairman Meow occupied on long nights spent far from home.

 

Name: Saint Purrtrick
Personality: awe-inspiring

He may seem pious and virtuous, but Saint Purrtrick loves a bawdy tale or a good fart joke just as much as the next cat, that’s why he never travels without his copy of The Canterbury Tails

Name: Ms. Fortune
Personality: charismatic

Ms. Fortune’s favorite characters have magnetic, day-glo personalities—like Francesca Lia Block’s Weetzie Cat.

 

 

Name: Bob the Cat
Personality: outdoorsy

The only thing Bob the Cat loves more than actually traveling is reading about it; he’s working through every travel book in the library and currently loving Eat, Purr, Lounge by Elizabeth Gilbert

Name: Conductor Whiskers
Personality: vigilant

Conductor Whiskers needs to keep his brain constantly active, which is why he loves true crime novels like Truman Capote’s In Cold Milk

 

Name: Tubbs
Personality: finicky feaster

When not stuffing himself, Tubbs enjoys staring at the pictures in cookbooks—though those are frustratingly missing from his latest library loan To Kill a Mockingbird

Name: Mr. Meowgi
Personality: mentoring

Mr. Meowgi turns to short fiction when he wants to learn something new; his current favorite is Interpreter of Meowladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

 

Name: Lady Meow Meow
Personality: diva

As a performer and a diva, Lady Meow Meow hardly has time for reading, but she does love to relax in her luxurious hammock and read fabulous memoirs like Just Kittens by Patti Smith

Name: Guy Furry
Personality: artisan

Guy Furry is your average cat—he appreciates the simple things in life: slow living and good food; when he wants to make a delicious meal he turns to the Kittenfolk

Name: Kathmandu
Personality: refined

Kathmandu enjoys the finer things in life: a patch of sun and a good book, like The God of Shiny Things by Arundhati Roy

 

 

Name: Sassy Fran
Personality: enthusiastic

When not serving up lattes, Fran is gushing over her favorite reads; as a prominent female in the feline community, she can’t stress enough the importance of We Should All Be Felines by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie

Name: Billy the Kitten
Personality: nihilistic

When not pondering his own insignificance, Billy the Kitten enjoys reading about the ultimately useless trials of others, like in Faulkner’s  As I Lay Meowing

Name: Frosty
Personality: sensitive

On cold nights, Frosty likes to warm up with a nice thick book; he was last found cuddling Karl Ove Knausgard’s My Snuggle.

 

There’s just one Rare Cat who’s book of choice I couldn’t put my finger on. Anyone think they have an answer to that riddle?

 

Name: Ramses the Great
Personality: riddler