For example….I really enjoyed The Book Thief, where Death narrates the story….and the book by Shelby Van Pelts “Remarkably Bright Creatures” where the Octopus narrates his point of view.
I just love unusual perspectives, if that makes sense 🙂
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In Spencer Quinn’s Chet and Bernie series (Dog On It is the first book), PI partners (a guy and his dog) solve crimes and it is told from Chet’s (the dog) perspective. I chuckled throughout and the mystery is very good, I really enjoyed it. I listened to the audiobook and they have a great narrator, Jim Fragion.
mister b. gone by clive barker. didn’t enjoy it myself.
Sci-fi – *A Closed and Common Orbit* and *Murderbot* both have cyborg/AI/tech-based lifeform narrators who are not human, even if they pass as human. There’s definitely other technological narrators out there but I can’t think of them off the top of my head
The ants, Bernard Werber.
Watership Down – the film is also brilliant, but has it’s darker parts that famously traumatised whole generations of UK kids.
Animals of Farthing Wood – also a BBC TV series, as above it has it’s darker parts to emphasise to children that nature isn’t always all pretty and happy
Duncton Wood – more classic fantasy in feel
Ancillary Justice by Annie Leckie
My Stupid Intentions by Bernardo Zannoni. It’s narrated by a beech marten.
The Art of Racing in the Rain – by Garth Stein, narrated by the dog Enzo
Wulfsyarn by Phillip Mann (narrator is an “autoscribe” robot).
Bartimeus trilogy
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. Not necessarily narrated by non-human but it’s about a man who answers a newspaper ad about a teacher who is seeking a pupil. The teacher is a gorilla and they have conversations about philosophy. I really loved this book.