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Are there any good books with non-human protagonists? Hard mode:

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Are there any good books with non-human protagonists?
Hard mode: no fantasy
So no drizzt, no frodo, no shitty YA mary sue half-dragon princesses
Im thinking more like aliens or animals
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atlas shrugged
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Some of the few Star Wars novels that are actually good.
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'I am a Cat' by Natsume Soskei
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jack london is great stuff
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>>9451047
that book where the guy follows a bird. i think it's called peregrine
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>>9451047
also, the movie au hasard balthazar and the more recent and shitty weiner dog
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>>9451047
Kafka - die Verwandlung
Main character is a dung beetle
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>>9451047
You Bright and Risen Angels - William Vollmann.

No idea if you'd like it or not. His work tends to be polarizing. It's about incects vs the forces of electricity. It's literary.
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>>9451047
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i want to write a book like ivisible cities, but instead of marco polo and cities, it'd by darwin and different animals with weird characteristics
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>>9451047
Italo Calvino's "Cosmicomics" has a bunch of weirdo stories about plankton and planets and seasponges and shit. Can't quite remember all of it.
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Originally in French "Les fourmis"
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>>9451047
Animal Farm
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Bunnicula
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Watership Down by Richard Adams. I'm told the Plague Dogs by the same author is good though I've only seen the film.
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Beasts by John Crowley is outstanding
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heart of a dog - bulgakov
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Crucible of Time by John Brunner.
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Grendel
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>>9452514
Watership down is my favourite, and i just bought the plague dogs on a market.
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Flush: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
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The Burrow + Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk by Franz Kafka. They're both just long short stories though.
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sirius by stapledon
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wraeththu :^)
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