Big Books of 2026
Genres

Second Person


Second Person Books

The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Bright Lights, Big City
You (You, #1)
The Night Circus
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
The Raven Tower
In the Dream House
Interior Chinatown
Open Water
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
A Dowry of Blood
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Lists

The Night Circus by Erin MorgensternThe Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinThe Push by Ashley AudrainIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoIn the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
52 Book Club 2022: #1 A Second-Person Narrative
143 books — 112 voters
As You Like It by William ShakespeareTwelfth Night, or, What You Will by William ShakespeareAre You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy BlumeOh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. SeussYou Can't Take it With You by Moss Hart
All Yours
576 books — 30 voters

The Halo Grower by Ryushiro HindemithHalf Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom RobbinsA Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'NanBright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerneyIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Books Narrated in the Second Person
41 books — 51 voters

Quotes Tagged “Second Person”

Richard Flanagan
“ Please don’t ask how I know such things, please: where fish are concerned I know everything - or as good as - & besides, it’s rude to interrupt when I am in the middle of telling you how that sorry crumpled dory began to flare up ”
― Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
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Norman Partridge
“ You can remember how it was, because you weren't really any different. You could believe the things that people told you, too. Their words were gospel, and you trusted them. You believed because you were sixteen…or seventeen…or eighteen. You believed because your dreams had started running up against the Line like it was a brick wall that didn't have a single crack. And you believed—most of all—because you had to. You needed to believe that someone could get out of this town, same way you needed ...more ”
― Norman Partridge, Dark Harvest
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