Thread 24819834

Looking for novels with anthropomorphic animal (aka “furry”) protagonists.
Know any good ones?

>>24819834 (OP)
Cool — if you’re looking for novels with anthropomorphic (aka “furry”) protagonists, here are some strong picks across different tones + a few things to keep in mind so you find ones you’ll actually enjoy.

Top recommendations

Here are five good ones you can start with:

Tailchaser’s Song by TadWilliams — Follows a tom-cat named Fritti Tailchaser in a richly built mythic world of cats, with full culture, language, etc.
Wikipedia
+1

Duncton Wood by WilliamHorwood — Features anthropomorphic moles in a detailed society (“Moledom”), exploring their lives, religion and environment.
Wikipedia

Watership Down by RichardAdams — Classic: a group of rabbits with fully-fleshed culture, mythology, etc. Not as “talking in human clothes” kind of furry, but strongly anthropomorphic in emotional/behavioral sense.
The Review Geek
+1

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by TerryPratchett — A lighter, witty choice: intelligent rodents + a cat, anthropomorphic satire/fable.
Views From the Tesseract
+1

Fire Bringer by DavidClement‑Davies — Epic animal fantasy (deer) with prophecy, myth, and strong world‐building—mentioned in lists of anthropomorphic animal fantasy.
Meet New Books
+1

Things to consider so you pick the right one

Tone & maturity: Some are very kid/YA friendly (e.g., The Amazing Maurice) whereas others are more epic or serious (Duncton Wood, Tailchaser’s Song).

Degree of anthropomorphism: Do you want animals that walk/talk like humans (clothes, civilization) or more “animal behaviour but with thought/emotion”? The picks cover both.

Genre mix: Some lean fantasy/myth (Tailchaser, Fire Bringer), others more allegory or fable (Watership Down), some humorous (Maurice).

World‐building: If you like deep societies, languages etc., go for ones like Duncton Wood or Tailchaser; if you prefer simpler, more accessible, maybe start with Maurice or Watership.

Adult vs younger audience: Just because there are animal characters doesn’t automatically make it childish—some are quite mature and layered.

If you like, I can pull together a longer list (10-20 books) of lesser‐known ones (including indie/furry-community favorites) by filtering on your preferred tone (fantasy vs sci-fi vs lighter) and age group (adult vs YA). Do you want that?

>>24819838
why are you using AI

>>24819887
You got zero replies, and probably no one will ever respond to this thread. I haven’t read any furry books myself—do these ones not sound interesting?

>>24819834 (OP)
They don't exist because furries are an inherently visual concept. If you wrote a furry story, 98% of it would be indistinguishable from the same story but with human characters. If you try to animalize them further than your typical furry, you end up veering into either sci-fi(animals that have evolved sapience) or xenofiction (think Watership Down)

>>24819834 (OP)
I read some half decent ones published on sofurry. But its been a while, so I cant remember the specific names.

cut fox too btw.

>>24819892
>You got zero replies
Hi /v/ tourist, I know this concept might be hard for you to grasp, but a thread on a slow board like /li/ could go with zero replies for hours before someone replies and that is normal

Usagi Yojimbo? It’s a comic book but if you want pros then probably Aesop

>>24820036
How did you know I'm form /v/?

island of doctor moreau by wells

>>24820079
We get tourist from them all the time and a /tv/fag would have made a bait thread about how X adaptation was than the book
/v/ermin on the other hand normally try to actually participate on the conversation, however due to them being used to the fast posting on /v/ they out themselves by doing retarded shit like your GPT response

>>24819834 (OP)
Fallout Equestria
(and Redwall and Watership Down I guess)

>>24819834 (OP)
Reynard the Fox

>>24819834 (OP)
Reynard, the Silverwing trilogy, Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, Fox and the Hound, Guardians of Gahoole, Blacksad
They're not the easiest things to find, at least not with an enjoyable complexity. While they all say something I seldom find myself happening upon such literature that says anything that truly resonates.

>>24819892
Right, just imagine all the characters as whatever your fetish animal is like Bojack Horseman.

>>24820897
Similar to Mrs Frisbee would be The Tale of Despereaux. I haven't read Watership Down yet, but my grandma read Rabbit Hill and The Tough Winter to me when I was a kid. They're more optimistic versions of rabbit survival. Speaking of rabbits, Uncle Wiggly was a major deal back in the day, he even had a board game adaptation. Animal Farm, The Call of the Wild, and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi are classics.

>>24819834 (OP)
Picrel is actually really good once you get past the initial cringyness of the author's self-insert. Waterways is also pretty good, everything else he wrote (including the sequels) go from mediocre to mildly okay

>>24821050
Will I like this if I'm not homosexual

>>24819834 (OP)
Does the cat nigga from Master & Margarita count as anthropomorphic? I don't know anything about furries.

>>24821126
Depends, do we get a detailed description of his cumming barbed penis

>>24821116
Maybe, maybe not. This particular book has 3 or 4 explicit sex scenes that go on for like 10 pages each, so you'll probably not like that. Maybe check Waterways, there's some suggestive moments in that one but no detailed sex.
Whichever one you read though just keep in mind that the prose is middle school level and this guy's stories are always light-hearted, so don't expect high literature

Yiff in hell furfag

>>24819838
>no redwall
AI truly is worthless.

Not really a novel but it's a fun read
>>24819838
kill yourself.

>>24819834 (OP)
Journey to the West

>>24819834 (OP)
>read a novel
>imagine them as furries
Problem solved

Do you guys think there's a market for non-smut, furry books? (Not counting children's books)
I know furfags pay a lot of money for stuff, but is usually all just visual stuff

>>24822320
Nope. The whole thing is about gay sex and exhibitionism

The Master & Margarita
Not a novel and not quite anthropomorphic but it's slim pickings if you're looking for something literary so I'll also recommend the short stories of Kenji Miyazawa, he uses talking animals a lot in his stories. NYRB have a good collection called Once and Forever

>>24819834 (OP)
very cute fox, would bum.

Not necessarily the protagonist, but;
'Cat Country' by Lao She and
'War with the Newts' by Capek could be applicable here.

>>24819834 (OP)
Memoirs of a Furry: I am a Disappointment to My Family and I should Kill Myself, by (You)

>>24819834 (OP)
Furry culture is ultimately reliant on visuals, which is why most furry content is art and/or videogames. Sure there are some furry musicians and some novelists but their mediums essentially strip away what makes furries well, furries. The blend between human and animal is lost when the animal people in your work can be replaced with normal humans and it would hardly make a difference. This is why movies like Zootopia became so popular, because the whole thing would otherwise not work if the characters were not animals that speak and walk on two legs.
This is also why there's a good deal of furry comics out there but not that many actual books- the visual aspect is necessary if the writer cannot find a compelling reason to explain why the characters of the story needed to be furries instead of humans.

>>24819834 (OP)
Reynard the Fox. Witty, humanist, anti-clerical folk tales from the medieval period. Big influence on Disney's robin hood which i think is quite popular with the furries?

>>24822687
Bum her so hard she forgets she has a bum

>>24824375
>her
That's a man anon

>>24824054
Who patronized the writing of renard?

>>24819945
>They don't exist because furries are an inherently visual concept. If you wrote a furry story, 98% of it would be indistinguishable from the same story but with human characters. If you try to animalize them further than your typical furry, you end up veering into either sci-fi(animals that have evolved sapience) or xenofiction (think Watership Down)
This anon is right. I'm writing a story that's straight up furries - not sci-fi, not fantasy animal races - and outside of a few behavioral quirks and bits of description it dawned on me that I could easily turn it into an all-human story by writing those off and I wouldn't lose anything essential. The fact they're hot animals is just fluff.

>>24824964
sounds like a you problem. you can make some of their inclinations slightly more in accordance with their type of animal.

Fox or cat MC?

>>24824975
Sure, actually I made the main plot point about this. But I would be lying if I said I couldn't just scratch the animal aspects and make it all about people. The thing is modern furries aren't aliens and they are not fantasy creatures with their own culture or behavior. Yes I can make canines have a pack mentality, but they're pretty much just people in sexy costumes....

>>24825858
nothing is stoping you from picking whatever point on a sliding scale of alienness. you can anthropomorphisise them from any poibt from essentially the animal itself to humans. hell, you could give them completely alien aspects that are highlighted by their beastial traits rather than directly informed by them.

One of my favorite old rpg’s feom the 70’s, Traveler, has one of the major races being uplifted earth dogs, abd they have a unique psycho-cultural aspect of extreme enterprising anarcho-independence and even a bit of a supremicist streak (in part because they were uplifted by a precursor race, literally gods chosen people).

its an opportunity to experiment with degrees of nature, nurture, and more universal aspects of sapience. compassion, violence, curiosity etc.

>>24826123
Thing is, in the end, I am not writing furshit because I want interesting worldbuilding. I write furshit because I want to fuck a bunny and make a bulge in her tummy with my fat human cock.

Weirdly good world building.
I had a signed copy from a used bookstore that my dog ate.

> scifi/fantasy with human slaves on a planet dominated by medieval cat people.

>>24826130
I read (and sometimes write) smut for both desu. I find the exoticness arousing/intriguing.

Also, sorry about the horrendous spelling. IDK why I didn't double check.

>>24819834 (OP)
Redwall

>>24826123
I once saw a claim that "true" furry art is sensorial and symbolic, not rational, that it's really about humans with compelling physical embodiments that cannot be explained, which e.g. makes Zootopia less furry than Disney's Robin Hood.
I don't know if I buy it completely and I don't see why they're per se incompatible but there's something to it, I don't get the same thing out of xenofiction and furry pictures.

>>24826977
Huh?

>jannies delete the gif of the fox tying his hair and the one of the fox in the desert
>they don't delete the actual thread were coomers are spamming porn

>>24824912
We don't really know. The tales are derived from an oral tradition of folk tales. The French version is written by Pierre de Saint-Cloud but little is known about him. The Dutch version supposedly by someone called Willem, but even less is known about him.

Presumably you're trying to get a gotcha with it being written by clerics? It is not unlikely, but it being written down by clergy does not mean the work is not humanist or anti-clerical. The whole point of them being animals is to introduce a layer of plausible deniability so that it could be disseminated without reprimand from the authorities being parodied.

>>24827448
I don't know which part of that was confusing so here's the 40 minute version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws9g3igw51s

>>24828409
>Presumably you're trying to get a gotcha
no just genuinely curious who would have the means to commission such stories when from what I have heard about them they are generally anti authority in a way that I wouldnt think an authority figure wouldnt be particularly approving of, unless they took it in good humor. Maybe wealthy commune merchants?

So furries have always had wealthy patrons behind them?

>>24829332
Kinda gross and reaching desu.

>>24824054
I always felt the wolf was much more respectable then Renard desu. Renard is an asshole.

>>24829332
>open the video
>thumbnail has an obese tranny with fox ears on it
>close the video
Thanks, faggot

>>24819834 (OP)
HB stories set in a modern urban setting with anthros?

>>24830303
Nigger lizard
Ligger

>>24822114
Why dont more people do this?