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Novels with non-human (even inanimate) narrators:
Updated October 10, 2024
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The Vitals
Sorensen, Tracy.
Paper Book
Deep inside Tracy's body live the organs of the peritoneal cavity.Ute, a wandering womb. Rage, an existential spleen. Gaster, a gleeful gorger. Liv, a workaholic liver.But there is also Baby, an ever-growing tumour, and Baby's child Bunny, whose cells are multiplying alarmingly.Together, the organs...
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The pages
Hamilton, Hugo
Paper Book
'A rich, strange book. Very truthful and moving' Tessa Hadley'A terrific, engrossing novel' Roddy Doyle'A masterpiece' Sebastian BarryThe new novel about the transformative power of art, the weight of history and the strange connection we make with one another from the author of The Speckled People....
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Mammoth
Flynn, Chris
Paper Book
Narrated by a 13,000-year-old extinct American mastodon, Mammoth is the (mostly) true story of how the skull of a Tyrannosaurus bataar, a pterodactyl, a prehistoric penguin, the severed hand of an Egyptian mummy and the narrator himself came to be on sale at a 2007 natural history...
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The lucky galah
Sorensen, Tracy
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD 2019"Subtle, disarming and insightful" Rosalie Ham, author of the bestselling novel The DressmakerA magnificent novel about fate, Australia and what it means to be human... it just happens to be narrated by a galah called Lucky. It's 1969 and a remote...
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Night blue
O'Keeffe, Angela
Paper Book
Potent, haunting and lyrical, Night Blue is a debut novel like no other, a narrative largely told in the voice of the painting Blue Poles. It is a truly original and absorbing approach to revisiting Jackson Pollock and his wife Lee Krasner as artists and people, as well as a realigning our ideas...
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Pod
Paull, Laline
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION, 2023'Knocked my socks off . . . it is set entirely in the ocean. It's not science fiction. It's realistic. It's set in the here and now . . . And it's fascinating' Barbara Kingsolver in the New York Times'A pacy, provocative tale...
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The axeman's carnival
Chidgey, Catherine
Paper Book
Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pipits - but above them all and louder, the magpies. We are here and this is our tree and we're staying and it is ours and you need to leave and now. Tama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by...
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