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Hey! Loved Redwall and the other associated stories when I was growing up. I was an avid fan and owned the first 10ish, but the quality of story went down as more came out. :(
Now the real trick is figuring out what you're asking, so I'll take a few stabs. If there is a specific aspect about Redwall you really want to reflect in your new reads let me know and I'll expand the selection. :)
Like Redwall as in intelligent animals:
Light On Shattered Water:
Human finds himself in an alternate dimension where cats evolved instead of humans. I first read in around 2000, and last read it again this year, still very enjoyable.
The Chanur Saga:
Anthropomorphic cat aliens. Pretty decent adventure, though the tech is a little silly but not bad considering it was written in the 80s.
Watership Down:
Rabbits in England trying to live their life. And adventure type stuff happens. A classic for very good reason.
Like Redwall for epic adventure and battles
Malazan Book of the Fallen:
Epic in every way. Hands down my favorite book series. Never has any other book given such a sense of scale to the world. Everything has a history, and Erikson writes in a way that you want to know more, about it all.
His Majesty's Dragon:
I originally only picked up this book because the summary sounded like a joke. Napoleonic era England, insert dragons as the aerial corps. I brought it with to work, read it on my breaks and lunch, and after getting off at 9pm ended up staying at wprl until 5 am to finish it and the second book in the series.
MoL is a member of the groundhog's day loop subgenre. Check out Re:Zero, ERASED (AKA boku dake ga Inai Mache), and Edge of Tommorrow (also known as "All you need is kill") for non-fanfic examples. Also check out the peggy sue and groundhog peggy sue pages for when the time loop is on a significantly larger scale. For some reason I can't find a whole lot of non-fanfic examples (I've probably just forgotten stuff I read a long time ago) but there are oodles of fanfic with that premise.
Are you willing to read MLP:FiM fanfiction? I have a bunch of excellent completed fics to recommend for groundhog's day loops. If you like naruto, there's Time Braid and Chuunin exam day of the top of my head for loops, though they come with caveats: Time Braid is rather overty sexual, and Chuunin exam day is pure tripe written by an author I hate (so I only mention it because of its popularity.) Naruto also has incredibly amounts of peggy sue fics, but they tend to be either fairly blatant wish fulfilment or incomplete. I know for a fact that harry potter has tons of both peggy sue and time loop fics, but I don't really read that fandom much. Worm has a bunch of peggy sue fics, but they're all (or almost all) incomplete.
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On the other hand, Hero's War is an "uplift" fic. The only non-fanfic example I can think of off the top of my head is Light on Shattered Water which I'm about halfway through. Aside from that, check spacebattles for ASOIAF SIs: they almost all tend to be of this variety. Again, I also have a bunch of MLP:FiM fics with similar premises.
For sort-of-similar works, check out Erfworld and Two Year Emperor for modern-person-gets-put-in-charge-of-fantasy-land fiction.
Spacebattles really likes both of these kinds of fics, so you may have more luck posting a thread there.
Some of these are more obscure than others, but tell me if you thought I included any that were too well known:
The Cloud Roads: It's the first book in the Raksura series by Martha Wells. It has some wonderful worldbuilding, and the Raksura themselves are very fun to read about. They have some complicated biology compared to humans, and the societal alterations to go along with it.
Light on Shattered Water: This one was interesting to me because the protagonist is the only human in the story. In short, he's a monster. It's an interesting perspective and we get to watch his sanity wax and wane.
The Demon of Cliffside: This is an indie book that was posted on r/Fantasy last November, but went largely unnoticed. What makes it special is it's protagonist, the demon of cliffside. It's quite inhuman, and has lived in the shadow of the city for a millenia, with varying levels of enmity towards the people living in it. Right now, the demon is pretty ambivalent towards them, but in the past... events transpired that led to bloody legends.
Sixty-One Nails: Book one of the courts of the feyre by Mike Shevdon. The author really does his research when he's writing these books because he incorporates real-life history and ceremonies. The main character is pretty atypcial for an urban fantasy: he's a middle aged man with a teenaged daughter.
The Legend of Eli Monpress: This is actually an omnibus of the first three books in the Eli Monpress series, but it costs the same as a regular book. The book won me over in the first chapter, when the titular character talked his way out of his dungeon cell... by convincing his cell door to fall apart. It is a series that's excellent at balancing humorous moments with serious moments and it has a wonderful cast of characters.
Rick Cook's Wizard's Bane series is about a programmer who gets sent to a magic-filled world. And he then proceeds to learn magic, and build his own magic compiler by using ordered simple spells.
Light On Shattered Water is a book about a hiker who gets transported to a world of cat-people in the middle ages. Notable for not being one of those books where "everything magically works out". He doesn't speak the language. He gets treated as non-sentient a lot. Pretty badly brutalized at points too. Eventually starts a semi-industrial-revolution.
Constructive reviews of books like this would be very useful. Light on Shattered Water and its sequel, Storms Over Open Fields are on Amazon and also the author's webpage and reviews are always welcome.
Take a look at Lights on shattered water. I haven't finished it yet but I'm beyond half and it's very good so far. There is one sex scene in it so far (if I recall correctly) but it's not focused on sex.
You can either download it for free here or buy it from amazon here There's also one or two sequels.
Also, here's the song that made me check it out.
You might be interested in Light on Shattered Water which has just been put up on Amazon's Kindle service. Full book with a few extras that the other online versions don't have.
If you looking towards published work, Id look at [Turning Point (Sholan Alliance)] (http://www.amazon.com/Turning-Sholan-Alliance-Lisanne-Norman-ebook/dp/B0031Y9DA0/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&qid=1419641342&sr=8-15&keywords=turning+point)
For actual fiction the only one I can remember is [Anthropomorphic Foxes in Space!] (http://home.earthlink.net/~otrstf/) and is really rather old yet some how managed to stay with me around 10 years after I read it. It likely isnt up today's writing standards.
There is also [Light on Shattered Water] (http://www.amazon.com/Light-Shattered-Water-Life-Riley-ebook/dp/B008GASFDA) Is the only other one I can think of. I found it a bit hit or miss.
I haven't thought of that one in a long time.
https://www.amazon.com/Light-Shattered-Water-Life-Riley-ebook/dp/B008GASFDA