I can’t think of a better way to describe it and google doesn’t understand what I mean but I’m looking for a book that feels like it’s only telling you part of the story, or like it’s aimed at someone in the world where it takes place (though doesn’t have to be in-universe media style like some of these). My favorite example of this is The Long Walk by Stephen King, you end the book with just as many questions about the world it takes place in as when you started, but they’re much deeper questions. A lot of dystopia and suspense does this well, but I’m open to things in any genre. Some other books I feel did this well are Bubblegum by Adam Levin, World War Z by Max Brooks, and Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (though obviously in a much less severe/intense and lighter way than the others). Any other books that fit this?
by Frequent_Cobbler
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Hm—*maybe* Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson would be right for this!
Dune is like that. It throws you right in medias res. For me it felt way so overwhelmingly at first, that I needed a second start a year or so later.
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal el-Mohtar
The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang
The Passion by Jeannette Winterson
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
Written on the Body by Jeannette Winterson