Monkeys, apes, and primates

Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey
Catch me a Colobus by Gerald Durrell
The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris

The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
Ape House by Sara Gruen
Peacemaking among Primates by Frans de Waal
The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior by Jane Goodall

Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Ape: a Caprice
by Michel Butor

Nim: a Chimpanzee who learned
Sign Language
by Herbert Terrace

Tarzan of the Apes/ (pub. with Hopeʻs
The Prisoner of Zenda
by Edgar Rice Burroughs / Anthony Hope

Apes, Men, and Morons
by Ernest Hooton

Lords and Lemurs
by Alison Jolly

Ape and Essence, by Aldous Huxley
The Monkey Wrench Gang, by Edward Abbey
Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, by Sheri S. Tepper
The Human Body, by Jonathan Miller
Travels with a Primate, by Terry Waite

The Hairy Ape by Eugene OʻNeill

Monkey See, Look at Me
by Lorena Siminovich

Monkey See, Monkey Draw
by Alex Beard

Five Silly Monkeys
by Steve Haskings

The Baboon as a non-human Primate
model for the Study of human
reproduction by T. M. dʻHooghe

Ivan: the Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla by Katherine Applegate
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by Eileen Christelow
Curious George by H.A. Rey
Chimps Don't Wear Glasses by Laura Numeroff
Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls

Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-en
The Monkey's Raincoat by Robert Crais
Bring the Monkey by Miles Franklin
Utterly Monkey by Nick Laird
Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle

Orang-oetan en den paradijsvogel = The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace lit :Orangutan and the Bird-of-Paradise
The Lemur by Benjamin Black
Fumihiko Maki* by Maki Fumihiko
Lori by Robert Bloch
I Wish I Were a Howler Monkey by Christina Jordan

* Japanese Architect

Het leesplankje : aap noot mies by Jan Ligthart Ape - Nut - Mies*
De vliegende aap by Willy Vandersteen The flying Ape
Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape by Frans B. M. de Waal
Broodje aap : de folklore van de post-industrële samenleving by Ethel Portnoy lit: ape sandwich
Urban legend : The folklore of the post - industrial practicalities society
King Kong by Edgar Wallace

*A dutch way to learn reading, with easy words, letters and pictures: http://www.lauraforspeaksdutch.info/2006/10/laura-speaks-dutch-19-aap-noot-mies/

The Ape that Spoke: Language and the
Evolution of the Human Mind
by John McCrone

How to Tell your Friends from the Apes
by Will Cuppy

Primates and Philosophers: How
Morality Evolved
by Frans de Waal

An RSPCA/FRAME survey of the use of
non-human Primates as laboratory
animals in Great Britain, 1984-1988
by Judith Hampson

The Case of Monkeys that Fell from Trees
and other Mysteries in Tropical Nature
by Susan Quinlan

De witte aap : stories by Etienne van Heerden
A is een aapje by Rie Cramer
De aap komt uit de mouw by Clement Sabine lit: the ape comes out of the sleeve. means: now becomes clear what's the case/has happened
De dag dat ik naar de Arctic Monkeys ging : music stories by John Schoorl the day I went to the A. M.
Hey, Hey, We're the Monkees by Harold Bronson

The Girl With No Name: The Incredible True Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys by Lynne Barrett-Lee
Curious George by H. A. Rey
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
Ape House by Sara Gruen
Jeannie by Douglas Preston

See no evil first of the 3 monkeys
Monkey on your back
Tarzan: King of the Apes
Triumph of the Spider Monkey
Howler

Looks as though nearly all the monkeys and apes have been done, so let's have a few prominent Primates:

Death comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Thomas Cranmer: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch
The New Girl at St Chad's by Angela Brazil
Murder in the cathedral by T.S. Eliot
The Cosmo Kama Sutra by the editors of Cosmopolitan (I'm not 100% sure that this is the Cosmo who did for Edward VIII, but you never know...)

Apes, Angels, and Victorians; the Story of
Darwin, ,Huxley, and Evolution
by William Irvine

Great Apes by Will Self

Lemurs: on Location by Tara Darling

"I once was a Monkey: Stories Buddha told me
by Jeanne M. Lee

A Monkey Grows Up by Rita Golden Gelman

Monkeys on the Interstate by Jack Hanna
Year of the Monkey by Carole Berry
Ape Who Guards the Balance by Elizabeth Peters
Second-Grade Ape by Daniel Pinkwater
Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann

The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal by Desmond Morris
The Ape and the Sushi Master: Cultural Reflections of a Primatologist by Frans de Waal
Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind
by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human
by Elizabeth Hess
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons by Robert M. Sapolsky

My Life With the Chimpanzees by Jane Goodall
The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life With the Chimps by Jeannette Winter
Count the Monkeys by Mac Barnett
Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business by Barbara Park
Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs the Mecha-Monkeys From Mars by Dav Pilkey

"The Monkeyʻs Mask" by Dorothy Porter

Baboons Waited on tables in Ancient Egypt
by Melvin Berger

Four Baboons Adoring the Sun
by John Guare

Akimbo and the Baboons
by Alexander McCall Smith

Lords and Lemurs by Alison Jolly