I read really only fiction and I’ve seen this in a few of my recent reads and slowly becoming one of my favorite tropes. Can be talking or not talking animals. Here are two examples:
Tres of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
Quicksilver by Callie Hart
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I really liked [The Seventh Bride](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25935854-the-seventh-bride) and there’s a hedgehog companion 😊
Jane Lindskold Firekeeper series,
Ok this is a WILD recommendation but “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves” by Karen Joy Fowler. Definitely an unusual animal companion novel but it’s a lot of fun.
His Dark Materials
*The Farseer Trilogy* by Robin Hobb, I’ve read it loooong ago so I don’t remember too much, unfortunately, but I’m sure there was an animal companion, not so sure if in the first book though.
About half of the characters in [A Night in the Lonesome October](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62005.A_Night_in_the_Lonesome_October) are talking animal companions to various other characters. Also just a really fun book!
Fairy Tale by Stephen King
Garth Nix The Old Kingdom series have both a cat and dog companion. The first book in the series is Sabriel.
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett. The companion is a tortoise.
Unlikely animals by Annie Hartnett
[**The Golden Compass** by Phillip Pullman](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119322.The_Golden_Compass?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=vmyY0YH7el&rank=1)
this is not only exactly what you are looking for, but is the **ONLY** book that i have ever read that i consider to be PERFECT. i first read this in my 30s and was blown away by this sweeping, transports-you-to-another-world tale.
i cannot recommend this one enough. PLEASE give this book a chance! if i could only recommend ONE book that everyone would read just once, it would be and will always be this one.
(this is book #1 in the **His Dark Materials** trilogy and may go by **Northern Lights** depending on where in the world you are).