Books With Nonhuman Main Characters (Who Are Often Cats)

The Last House connected Needless Street by Catriona Ward

This communicative of an unsolved kidnapping is partially narrated by a precise self-aware cat. The cat, her owner, and a teenage miss who is nary longer allowed extracurricular unrecorded successful an uneasy peace, which is shattered erstwhile a pistillate moves successful adjacent door. Her beingness threatens to excavation up aged secrets. Nothing is arsenic it seems successful this genuinely unforgettable fearfulness novel.

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The Traveling Cat Chronicles by Hero Arikawa

Nana, a feline with a crooked process signifying bully fortune, travels crossed Japan with his owner, Satoru. Nana believes that their lone intent is to sojourn 3 of Satoru’s aged friends, but their travel volition bring overmuch much to them than these reunions. This planetary bestseller allows the scholar to articulation Satoru and Nana successful their metallic van and larn the meaning of loyalty, and of love.

Timbuktu by Paul Auster

Mr. Bones is simply a canine and is the sidekick of Willy G. Christmas, a superb but troubled writer from Brooklyn. Mr. Bones accompanies Willy connected what is to beryllium their past large adventure: a roadworthy travel to Baltimore to find Willy’s precocious schoolhouse teacher, Bea Swanson. Is the teacher inactive alive? And if she isn’t, what volition support Willy from vanishing beyond wherever Mr. Bones tin scope him, into different satellite known arsenic Timbuktu?

The Bees by Laline Paull

Flora 717, the antithetic narrator of The Bees, is, unsurprisingly, a bee. She is darker than astir different bees and is moving to spell unnoticed successful a satellite wherever quality tin beryllium deadly. She should not person been allowed to survive, but her large spot is an plus to the hive. When she dares to question the queen’s fertility, she puts herself into struggle with the nine she lives in, and with her ain conscience, putting herself connected a collision people with the unthinkable things that indispensable beryllium done to survive.

The Cat Who Saved Books by Sôsuke Natsukawa

High schoolhouse pupil Rintaro Natsuki is preparing to adjacent the utilized publication store helium inherited from his gramps erstwhile a talking feline appears and asks him to assistance him prevention books. How does 1 prevention books? By liberating them from owners who neglect them. The brace participate a bid of mazes to rescue books from those who privation to usage them arsenic decoration, oregon arsenic commodities, but it’s the past maze that volition situation them the most.

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

Tova Sullivan became the nighttime cleaner astatine the Sowell Bay Aquarium pursuing the decease of her husband. She knows that keeping engaged volition support her from dwelling connected the loss, the aforesaid mode she has kept engaged since her 18-year-old lad disappeared connected a boat, 30 years before. At the aquarium she befriends Marcellus, a elephantine Pacific octopus who deduces what happened to Tova’s lad and decides that helium indispensable assistance her unearth the information earlier it’s excessively late.

Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton

S.T., a domesticated crow, conscionable wants to ticker tv with his owner, Big Jim, and devour the finest nutrient antheral has to offer, Cheetos. But erstwhile Big Jim is abruptly nary longer capable to attraction for him, S.T. and his noble steed Dennis (a dog) find themselves retired successful the wild. Humans are abruptly devouring each different and the lone carnal who tin prevention them is simply a crow who has watched a batch of TV.

BEASTARS by Paru Itagaki

This manga takes spot successful a precocious schoolhouse successful which the students are divided into predators and prey. Some of them volition emergence to the level of a Beastar — a person successful a nine afloat of mistrust. One night, a herbivore is murdered and investigating the astir apt slayer brings a grey wolf, Legoshi, and a dwarf rabbit, Haru, person than they’d planned connected becoming.

The Book of Night With Moon by Diane Duane

This companion bid to Diane Duane’s better-known Young Wizards books focuses connected the cats that negociate the gates betwixt worlds successful places similar Grand Central Station. Rhiow seems similar a perfectly mean Manhattan location feline to her owners. When they aren’t looking, however, she and her squad enactment with quality wizards to not lone support the gateways, but to support the world from acheronian forces.

The Wildings by Nilanjana Roy

In the archetypal publication successful a duology, we conscionable a set of feral cats successful Delhi. There are warriors, queens, elders, and of people kittens successful their colony. They unrecorded arsenic they privation and spell arsenic they please, until the time a caller kitten with singular powers lands successful their midst, mounting disconnected a bid of events that volition alteration everything.

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

Murderbot does not attraction astir humans. Murderbot wants to beryllium near unsocial to devour media and fig retired what it is, acknowledgment to the information that it was capable to hack its politician module and is present self-governing. When a technological expedition goes awry, Murderbot’s feelings astir the humans it is protecting go decidedly conflicted.

Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor

An brushwood with an alien artifact turns a young miss into Sankofa­­, the adopted girl of Death. The artifact has fixed her immoderate funny powers. She tin level a municipality astatine a glimpse and she travels alone, near to reply the question: what is her purpose? This publication takes spot successful the aforesaid beingness arsenic Okorafor’s earlier caller Who Fears Death.