Russell Hoban's underappreciated novel Kleinzeit features a large cast of unusual characters, including a fair number of inanimate objects, such as "The Paper" and "The Hospital." However, they are all anthropomorphized --they speak and act like human beings. Similarly, your own example stretches the definition of inanimate --a sentient artificial intelligence may not technically be "animate," but it certainly isn't even an unusual character for a science-fiction book.

A work centering entirely around a cast of non-animate, non-sentient objects would be a challenge to pull off, because they don't have any agency or capacity for change. However, never say never:

(Wikipedia: Lamp)

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