20 Drool-Worthy Coffee Table Books About Dogs

Brooklyn photographer Heather Weston puts a canine spin on the Humans of New York concept of street portraits. She snaps photos of pups all over the city, from Soho to Queens, and she even includes HONY-style quotes from each dog’s human. "Henry is almost too handsome, like George Clooney," says the owner of an adorable but definitely un-Clooney-looking Boston terrier. Ah, the rose-colored glasses of love.

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Gorgeous men + cuddly puppies = relief for day from hell. The creators of the popular blog Des Hommes et des Chatons bring you 50 photo pairings of hot men and cute pups doing similar things, like wearing a hoody, playing in leaves or drying off with a towel. It sits in the sweet spot between silly and smart.

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Instagram sensation Elias Weiss Friedman, also known as the human behind @TheDogist, takes his documentary-style portraits analog in this gorgeous book. The New York-based photographer launched the Insta account to fill his time after being laid off from a corporate job in 2013. Three million followers and one book deal later, he’s got one of the most enviable jobs out there. Chapters are divided into themes like Ears and Cones of Shame (because dogs in cones are funny, even if you feel guilty when you laugh).

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Since The Dogist’s first book did so well, Elias Weiss Friedman put out a sequel that’s all puppies. There are 300 pages of 800 puppies: more cuteness than you can stand at a single sitting. Like the first book, the photos are sorted by themes like Learning to Walk, Fancy Shoes, and again with the classic Cones of Shame.

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