a book that begins with the ending

[Mark-]

Serpico, by Peter Maas

[Rosa]

The Fall of Fergal: The First Unlikely Exploit (kids' book)
Trying Hard to Hear You

[Lynda]

In The Company Of Liars

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The Go-Between

[Rosa]

The Pigman

[Elena]

Check out Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk. begins in the end, very cool narration style, unique story, great MC all around good read.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...

[Rosa]

Survivor for the link.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Monsieur

[Marie]

Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

[Rosa]

Rebecca

[Karen]

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text although I got to say the narrator is so whiny I could barely stand it.

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Ray in Reverse by Daniel Wallace "the funny and poignant story of a life, told backward. Sitting in the Last Words support group in Heaven, Ray Williams ruminates on his short life of fifty years, his episodes of infidelity, his premature marriage proposal, his sexual confusion, the dog he accidentally killed, and the baby he unwittingly saved. ... Beginning at death and ending in his childhood, Ray in Reverse leads us back to Ray in his innocence, achieving, against all odds, a happy ending."

[Rosa]

The Catcher in the Rye
The Schwa Was Here

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

The Tin Drum

[Jesse]

Lolita

[Emily]

A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult is told completely in reverse.
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

[SamSpayedPI]

The Lock Artist

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

City of Thieves

[Nora]

The literary term for this is "in medias res." Here's a list of books like that:
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Where the Crawdads Sing

[John]

I'm a sucker for Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny. And do hold your nose when you come to the pun which George R.R. Martin claims is the main reason that Roger Zelazny wrote this book ...

[Lynda]

All the Missing Girls

[Wendy]

The Dark Tower Series Collection: The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three, The Waste Lands, Wizard and Glass, Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah, The Dark Tower

"The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed" Ka is a wheel.

[Wendy]

Marie wrote: "Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor"

I love this book. Great suggestion

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Eileen

[theStorykeeper]

Shattering Glass
Remember Me Like This

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

The Silent Patient

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Tangerine

[Jeff]

Almost all Kurt Vonnegut books - either thru old man writing a journal (hocus pocus, mother night, bluebeard, deadeye dick) or thru time travel (sirens of titan, slaughterhouse five) tell you the ending and then go from there.

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The Stone Girl

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The Woman on the Stairs
The Portrait

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The Truants

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

The Lost Daughter

[Marie]

Middlegame

[Deanne]

Ghost Story

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Rules of Civility

[Amber]

Sam~~ we cannot see the moon, and yet the waves still rise~~ wrote: "The Outsiders!"

Seconded. This is my all time favorite book.

[Liliana]

The Keeper of the Lost Cities series is directed to children but every book starts with an excerpt from the climax of the story.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Brideshead Revisited

[Donna]

The Outsiders

[Latte]

Cordially Uninvited, kind of.