Not Your Normal Novel

Novels with non-human (even inanimate) narrators:

Updated October 10, 2024
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Not Your Normal Novel

Novels with non-human (even inanimate) narrators:

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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...
Pod : 'a Pacy, Provocative Tale of Survival in a Fast-Changing Marine Landscape' Daily Mail
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 ...
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...
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...
I, Mona Lisa
Solomons, Natasha
Paper Book
' A lively, tender tale . . . In her zingy new novel Solomons gives the Mona Lisa . . . power, casting her as the fanciful narrator of her own story' THE TIMES 'A wonderfully written story of art, but also of obsession, friendship and love - I absolutely adored this...
The axeman's carnival
Chidgey, Catherine
Paper Book
A dazzling portrayal of humanity and the natural world that perfectly balances violence and humour.
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