High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Dog`s Purpose is a 2010 American novel written by W. Bruce Cameron, author of 8 Simple Rules for Dating my Teenage Daughter and How to Remodel a Man. The book chronicles a dog`s journey through several lives via reincarnation and how it looks for its purpose through each of its lives. The novel stayed a New York Times bestseller on the charts for forty-nine weeks, garnering critical praise from such sources as Temple Grandin, famous for her study of cattle behavior, Kirkus Reviews, and Marty Becker, resident veterinarian on the early-morning television show, Good Morning America. A sequel followed in May 2012, titled A Dog`s Journey, following the same dog after the events of the previous book. The film rights of the book were bought by DreamWorks.