My grandfather was a large-animal veterinarian and wrote a textbook about bovine health and nutrition. The book is dedicated to the dairy cow and how they're so important for human/civilization development. At some point I heard my grandmother was kind of upset it wasn't dedicated to her!
Book Dedications
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#12One of my favourite dedications is in the preface to “Real Analysis: A long-form mathematics textbook” by Jay Cummings (which is as it sounds a maths textbook). The dedication reads “To my loving wife, who read this entire book, apart from the maths parts.”
Along similar lines, Tad Williams dedicates each of his Otherland books to his dad but notes his dad doesn't read his books so probably won't know about it. By the 4th book his dad still doesn't know and he mentions something like "I'm thinking of creative ways to let him know like getting all my family in a room and saying 'Everyone that hasn't had a book dedicated to them take three steps forward...oops actually dad...'
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#13My most favorite dedication (sorry for ruining the special moment for you!) is from a book by Terry Eagleton, called "On Evil". There's an almost blank page which simply reads:
"To Henry Kissinger"
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#14Why did you re-submit this? Was it deleted before?
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#15I think my favourite are from the Otherworld books by Tadd Williams. He dedicated it to his dad who doesn't read and never told him about it. The gag goes on to all the books into the series.
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#16Shameless plug to my own version, https://dedications.fyi/ , and my favorite dedication: https://dedications.fyi/dedication/linear-graphs-and-electri...