Non-humans confused or fascinated by humans
Books with prominent non-human characters who are confused, horrified, fascinated, or delighted by human behavior!
Please add suggestions in the comments because I need more books like these 💜
created by limpidpool
last updated May, 2026
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I think A Psalm for the Wild-Built and its sequel A Prayer for the Crown-Shy would fit!
A 1000%! I second that rec!
Thank you!! I haven’t read those yet!
YUS!!! Will be keeping an eye on this over from my hoard the Non-Humans & Empathy list. 👀 ✨
You’ll obviously find suggestions there. But I can come back with specifics if you have something you’re looking for I can pinpoint.
My list does not include non-humans outside of the usual logical realm of possibility too much beyond the occasional “creatures/monsters” so I could also give recs outside of my list for that sort of thing too. I see you have good omens on here so I assume you’re counting demons/angels? Things that were never human? Or are you including things like bitten humans turned werewolf or vampires etc too, lmk!
I also see Murderbot is not on here. You will want to correct this mistake haha.
me leaving a comment about murderbot before reading this 🫣 i love your non-humans & empathy list!! def some there that cross over with this one 🙂↕️
Aww thanks!! ☺️ No kidding. And I figured if I didn’t say it someone would z suprised it wasn’t the first rec from Pagebound to be honest ahahaha
it’s def surprising 😂 murderbot is all over this site!!
Thank you!! That’s on my list to read!
Your list looks great! I guess it’s kind of nebulous in my head which non-humans are “too human-like” to count and which aren’t, so it’s kind of not well defined 😅
this list is soooo murderbot 🤭
When I saw this list, I immediately came to the comments to recommend Murderbot too!
Hey, you might like Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton! I think it would fit well here
ooo great rec!!
The Tortoise’s Tale by Kendra Coulter and The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances by Glenn Dixon would work here!
