I can't, exactly, think of any novels that both focus on the unchosen and allow them to remain unchosen by the end.
What springs to mind instead is a very good anime series I saw last year (based on a series of Japanese novels, but they haven't been translated into English yet, so I can't say how much similarity there is), in which two girls get teleported to a magical world yadda yadda, one of them is The Chosen One, and the other one isn't, and thinks she should be, and is manipulated by various people due to this belief until she eventually comes to the realisation that, no, she really isn't the Chosen One and would be much happier if she went back home and made friends and generally tried to be a reasonable human being. This is depicted as the hard-won result of painful personal growth and absolutely a victory for her.
Come to think of it, later in the same anime there's a story arc focusing on two other women, one of whom thinks all of her problems would go away if she was a Chosen One, the other of whom was the daughter of a Chosen One who screwed things up so badly that he got killed & thus his family became ordinary again. Both of them have to go through sufficient personal growth to understand and accept that they have meaningful choices and personal power and lives of their own without needing to be Chosen.
Eventually all the novels will be translated and I'll read them and then I'll know if they count.
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What springs to mind instead is a very good anime series I saw last year (based on a series of Japanese novels, but they haven't been translated into English yet, so I can't say how much similarity there is), in which two girls get teleported to a magical world yadda yadda, one of them is The Chosen One, and the other one isn't, and thinks she should be, and is manipulated by various people due to this belief until she eventually comes to the realisation that, no, she really isn't the Chosen One and would be much happier if she went back home and made friends and generally tried to be a reasonable human being. This is depicted as the hard-won result of painful personal growth and absolutely a victory for her.
Come to think of it, later in the same anime there's a story arc focusing on two other women, one of whom thinks all of her problems would go away if she was a Chosen One, the other of whom was the daughter of a Chosen One who screwed things up so badly that he got killed & thus his family became ordinary again. Both of them have to go through sufficient personal growth to understand and accept that they have meaningful choices and personal power and lives of their own without needing to be Chosen.
Eventually all the novels will be translated and I'll read them and then I'll know if they count.