I’m looking to start a new audiobook. I want something that I haven’t read before. This is very subjective, I know, but if the book has something unique about the narration structure, or a plot device, or something, then there’s a good chance I’m haven’t read it
Some of the books with something unique in them that I’ve liked
* First fifteen life of Harry August – First time reading the way information is passed through time >! using rebirths !<
* Seven and half deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – First time I read time loop and the narrator jumping characters to solve a murder mystery
* Children of Time – First time reading a non-human character, spanning from stone age to space age
* Dragon’s Egg – First time reading a life form on a neutron star that’s made of strong nuclear force instead of electromagnetic force
* The Victim – two timelines branching from the same event
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I prefer no romance, no YA, no dark themes
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{{Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu}} – screenplay type novel
{{Commonwealth by Ann Patchett}} – multiple POV and told in non-chronological order
{{Trust Exercise by Susan Choi}} – >! Halfway through, you realize the first half was a story within a story !<
{{There There by Tommy Orange}} – multiple POV coming together at one event
{{Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid}} – told in a documentary/interview style
{{Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf}} – stream of consciousness writing
{{The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros}} – story told in vignettes
If On A Winters Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino.
It’s postmodern and switches between second person and a book within the book so it’s got a few different things that you may not have seen before.
“Pale Fire” by Vladimir Nabokov is a novel written in the footnotes of a 100-line poem.
“The Wolf’s Feast” by Christine Morgan is a collection of viking horror short stories, that contains an epic poem that unfolds to reveal >!it’s Gargoyles fanfic!< which I thought was a clever device.
“Crom Cruach” by Valkyrie Loughcrewe is a horror novel written in unrhyming poem, about a haunting in an anarchist Ireland.
“Cloud Atlas” by David Mitchell is a series of nested stories, implied to be lightly connected worlds.
“The Raven Tower” by Ann Leckie is a stand-alone fantasy book with a strange narration structure. Explaining further would spoiler things.
“The Female Man” by Joanna Russ is a psychedelic feminist 70’s book about parallel universes and taps at the fourth wall.
Tristram Shandy. The author begins to tell the story of his life starting at conception but then keeps digressing. The story is in the digressions which are brilliant. He finally gets born about 2/3ds of the way through the book. Personally, I’d stop there because the rest of the book isn’t as good.