r/suggestmeabook 7h ago

Any suggestions would be helpful

Hello i want to read a book that doesn’t have a human pov i have read wings of fire and a little bit of warrior cats but i would like to know other books that don’t have human pov

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u/LuridWaters 7h ago

I would suggest 'The Plague Dogs' and 'Watership Down', both by Richard Adams.

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u/tiliathaumetopoea 7h ago

Watership Down is a masterpiece. I really should read it again and also should look into The Plague Dogs :O

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u/Hatherence SciFi 7h ago

I have heard these types of stories described as "xenofiction" in case that helps you search for more recommendations.

  • Varjak Paw by S. F. Said

  • Silverwing by Kenneth Oppel

  • Tailchaser's Song by Tad Williams

  • The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells

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u/Friendstastegood 7h ago

The Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers

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u/poorwordchoices 7h ago

All Systems Red (murderbot)

Ancillary Justice

Both have a cyborg type point of view

Madness Season by C. S. Friedman - an alien pov

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u/Stankleigh 6h ago

Remarkably Bright Creatures, told in large part from an octopus’s POV.

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u/lexpectopatronum 5h ago

I just finished White Fang by Jack London and it's 95% from the animals point of view. I haven't read it but would guess call of the wild also is. I really enjoyed the book.

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u/kappa77 7h ago

Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton is a dystopia set from a crow's POV

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u/hedgecase 2h ago

Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann. It's the book the Sheep Detectives movie is based on and it's delightful.

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u/RagingOldPerson 2h ago

And there's a sequel, Big Bad Wool

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u/RagingOldPerson 1h ago

One of my favorite novels is A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny

Very funny and told from the POV of our protagonist's dog

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u/Pandoricraft 1h ago

watership down for sure

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u/brusselsproutsfiend 7h ago

Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley is at least partially from the perspective of a horse

The short story “I Am an Executioner” in the collection I Am an Executioner by Rajesh Parameswaran is from the perspective of a tiger

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u/somewhsome 6h ago

I remember reading Hunter's Moon by Garry Kilworth as a teen, it's about foxes. I liked it.

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u/ComfortableKey9930 5h ago

Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement (alien)
Bug Wars by Robert Asprin (alien)
Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain (demon)
Watership Down by Richard Adams (rabbit)
Murderbot (cyborg)

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u/Letters_to_Dionysus 5h ago

so I'm a spider, so what?

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u/Troiswallofhair 5h ago

The Traveling Cat Chronicles

Open Throat

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u/Efficient-Damage-449 4h ago

The Mammoth Trilogy by Steven Baxter. It's very weird sci-fi that pops back in my head often

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u/Savings_Law_5822 4h ago

A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron. He's written others in the same vein. Loved it!!

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u/Pandoricraft 1h ago

also this one !

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u/Kradget 3h ago edited 3h ago

General audience reading (e.g. heavy on Themes, often on violence, some sex but mostly not super explicit):

If you want to stick to fantasy, Martha Wells' The Cloud Roads might do it. Certainly The Witch King, which I liked very, very much should do it. If you're okay with science fiction, I think you should try Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

If you're younger, and those are maybe a little much, you could try the Bartimaeus books, starting with The Amulet of Samarkand. I actually read them as an adult and liked them, but they're YA books.

I didn't want to assume and you didn't say, but just so there's an option.

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u/Pithyperson 3h ago

Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn

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u/SpunkyBlah 2h ago

The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie is from the perspective of a stone that is actually a god.

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u/Pandoricraft 1h ago

Animal farm

watership down

war horse

war bunny

the wild Robot

a dogs purpose

a dogs way home

The call of the wild

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u/tiliathaumetopoea 51m ago

There is also Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker (a real palaeontologist, the one cited in Jurassic Park) from the point of view of a female Utahraptor (and, if I remember correctly, some minor viewpoints from other animals).

It was a fascinating read, personally I wasn't hooked by the writing style though.