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in reply to @NinesTimesFox's post:

If you don't mind a little self-promotion, my web novel Transliterated is largely about human beings in animal bodies and the variety of ways their identities shake out as a result of that, with a healthy dose of purely non-human perspectives on things as well.

Outside of my own work, though I will say that explicitly therian fiction is difficult to find, mainly because the best therian material I have ever read has almost exclusively come from stories not written with the intent of being about that. Stuff like Animorphs (which I will always recommend to anyone) or any fantasy novels with dragons as PoV characters where the author very clearly does not have any sort of non-human identity, but is exceptionally skilled at writing the physical feeling of being something other than human and how characters grapple with that contrast.

Yes, but I'm old and weird.

The Once and Future King by T.H.White. The original inspiration behind Disney's "The Sword in the Stone". The animal TF sequences are in the first part. Has some serious brutality in it, being an adaptation of the Arthurian legend.

Watership Down, by Richard Adams. Story of rabbits' struggle with the environment and each other, told from their point of view. Classic for many good reasons.

The Orphan by Robert Stallman. Extremely mature themes dominate this story of a spirit that can impersonate humans, set in Depression-era America. Much of the conflict stems from how the animal-spirit is self-serving and pragmatic, whereas the guises it assumes have their own human agendas.

Sacrament by Clive Barker. Despite extended sequences where the narrator is an animal, it's very typical of Barker's work, hallucinatory and macabre.

Wild Child by Wildstorm Comic Studios. Girl who talks to animals must come to grips with her new fantasy world. Has very strong 90s comic energy.