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Animal fantasy and shape-changers, from Multcolib My Librarian Erika

Books in which animals talk, or humans turn into animals. Get custom book recommendations here: https://multcolib.org/my-librarian

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  • While there are many “knowledgeable” crows, bison, raccoons, and so on, there is only one such fox. And as part of his quest to discover why he is the only one of his kind, he must lead an expedition to the gates of Hell. Part animal fantasy, part…
    Book, 2023New York, NY : TOR Publishing Group, 2023. — SF ROWE 2023
  • If you are kind to the right cat, you might just find yourself invited to a mysterious coffee shop under a glittering Kyoto moon. A coffee shop run by talking cats!
    Book, 2024New York : Ballantine Books, [2024] — FICTION MOCHIZUKI 2024
  • Sometimes grisly, sometimes romantic tale of shapeshifting tigers and fierce women, set in a world of ghosts, ghouls, war mammoths, and talking hoopoe birds.
    Book, 2020New York : Tordotcom, Tom Doherty Associates, [2020] — FICTION VO 2020
  • S.T., a pet crow, enjoys hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (those idiots), and eating Cheetos ®. Then Big Jim's eyeball falls out , and S.T. starts to feel like something isn't quite right. -Publisher
    Book, 2019New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2019. — FICTION BUXTON 2019
  • Ka

    Dar Oakley in the Ruin of YMR

    Crowley, John, 1942-
    Dar Oakley -- the first Crow in all of Crow history with a name of his own -- was born two thousand years ago. Here tells the story of his impossible lives and deaths. -Publisher
    Book, 2017London ; New York : Saga Press, [2017] — FICTION CROWLEY 2017
  • A historical mystery set in 1908 Manchuria, where foxes can take human form.
    Book, 2024New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2024. — FICTION CHOO 2024
  • Humorous supervillain story featuring unionized dolphins and hyper-intelligent talking spy cats.
    Book, 2023New York : TOR, 2023. — SF SCALZI 2023
  • Moonbound

    the Last Book of the Anth

    Sloan, Robin, 1979-
    There are numerous talking animals... and even talking bees... in this whimsical Arthurian tale set in the far future.
    Book, 2024New York : MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. — SF SLOAN 2024
  • Epic fantasy set in a world where gods take many forms, including a jackalope-like god of white lies.
    Book, 2023New York : Harper Voyager ; [2023] — SF KANER 2023
  • A humorous fantasy that includes a talking rat.
    Book, 2023New York : Tor, Tor Publishing Group, 2023. — SF SANDERSON 2023
  • A hopeful utopian SF novel that includes some talking animal characters.
    Book, 2023New York : Tor, 2023. — SF NEWITZ 2023
  • Urban fantasy with werewolves.
    Book, 2017Riverdale, NY : Baen, [2017] — SF SPENCER 2017
  • Bookish high school student Rintaro Natsuki is about to close the secondhand bookstore he has inherited from his beloved bookworm grandfather. However, one day, a talking cat named Tiger appears and asks Rintaro to save books with him. - Publisher
    Book, 2021New York : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021. — FICTION NATSUKAWA 2021
  • A bronze age epic fantasy in which people can shift into the animals of their clans, such as wolf or tiger.
    Book, 2016London : Pan Books, 2016. — FICTION TCHAIKOVS 2016
  • Hounded (with Bonus Content)

    The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book 1

    Hearne, Kevin
    A druid communicates telepathically with his dog in this urban fantasy.
    eBook, Libby ebook
  • Epic fantasy set in a world where magical connection to animals, called the Wit, is forbidden and shunned.
    Unknown, 1996New York : Bantam Books, 1996. — FICTION HOBB 1996
  • Urban fantasy featuring a shapeshifter raised by werewolves.
    Book, 2006New York : Ace Books, 2006. — FICTION BRIGGS
  • Space opera featuring some very interesting furry aliens in which one consciousness is formed from a pack.
    Book, 1993New York : TOR, [1993] — SF VINGE 1993
  • An allegorical tale of survival about a band of wild rabbits who leave their ancestral home to build a more humane society.
    Unknown, 2005New York : Scribner, 2005. — FICTION ADAMS 2005
  • YA fantasy set in a world in which all humans have a daemon - a part of them that takes animal form.
    Book, 2006New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2006] — y PULLMAN