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48 - A book with two POVs
Ace of Spades, Jade Fire Gold, and Sisters of the Snake are some YA that do.Most romances do as well, though I know for sure Get a Life, Chloe Brown does.
I'm going with Interview with the Vampire.Here are a couple of other GR listopias for multiple POV.
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The City of Brass would be great of this prompt I read it in 2021 - I was hoping the second in the series also has 2 characters POV but it has three The Kingdom of Copper
FYI These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong has MORE than two POVs.I'll go with Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren
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I am currently reading (and disliking! I'm probably going to DNF. But don't let that stop you hahaha!!) The Elegance of the Hedgehog. It's got two POVs: the elderly concierge of an apartment building, and a precocious girl who lives in one of the apartments. If you liked The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and/or A Man Called Ove, you might like this book too.
Books I've read recently:
I just finished Hell of a Book (LOVED it!) and it's got two very confusing POVs: the author, and a mysterious kid who may or may not have the ability to become invisible.
Velvet Was the Night has two POVs: Maite and Elvis.
The Lions of Fifth Avenue & Before We Were Yours both have two POVs in two different timelines (a VERY popular structure these days, it seems)
I'll add these to the Listopia.
And, of course, almost all romance novels feature the POV of each of the romantic partners.
Nadine wrote: "I am currently reading (and disliking! I'm probably going to DNF. But don't let that stop you hahaha!!) The Elegance of the Hedgehog. It's got ..."I had a similar experience with The Elegance of the Hedgehog. It didn't pick up for me until page 147, according to my review from 2011. I know another big reader who abandoned it on page 145, and another who highly recommended it and gave it four stars. ::shrug:: It takes all kinds.
Ruth Downie's Medicus Roman mystery series mostly have two POV- Ruso and his wife Tilla. There might be the occasional chapter from an additional POV to give information, but that will happen maybe once a book. They are dry British semi-humorous mysteries that I like a lot; they take place in a Britain that has been colonized by the Romans.
I LOVE multiple POV books!The Lost Apothecary
Serpent & Dove (I'm hoping the sequel Blood & Honey also fits, cause I haven't gotten to it yet and really want to!)
Between the Lines
Revolution
All the Light We Cannot See
The Whiskey Rebels
Thirteen Reasons Why
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon is a dual biography of these mother/daughter writers told in alternate chapters. The interesting construction works well.Another possibility occurred to me... all six books in the Fifty Shades Trilogy: Fifty Shades of Grey / Fifty Shades Darker / Fifty Shades Freed and Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian series.
Just sayin'.
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery is one of my favorite books ever and works beautifully for this prompt.
I picked the One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot!
I'm probably going to go with a contemporary romance like The Trouble with Hating You, but most of Silvia Moreno-Garcia's books have at least two POV, so I'm keeping that in mind.
The upcoming Dava Shastri's Last Day has numerous POV, if that's more your speed. I read an ARC and it's not bad.
The Silent Patient is two POV and I thought it was fantastic!
I'm not even going to bother picking one for this. I've been feeling for months that most books I read alternate POVs and I'm getting really tired of it. There's nothing wrong with it, and it works great and all, but sheesh it's just too much. I know I'll read many so I'll just use one that accidentally fits.Nadine in NY wrote: "I am currently reading (and disliking! I'm probably going to DNF. But don't let that stop you hahaha!!) The Elegance of the Hedgehog."
UGH that is the most pretentious book I've ever read. I hate it. I see I gave it three stars, but I think I just didn't want to be a d*ck about hating it. I still feel angry when I see the cover in bookshops haha
I really like multiple POVs.I see All the Light We Cannot See and i cant recommend this book enough.
Also the whole Kiss Quotient series is 2 POVs. I just finished the last one, The Heart Principle and i loved it.
I am currently reading One Day in December and it also had 2 povs. seeing as ive been in a reading slump all year, maybe by the time i finish it it'll be 2022. lol
If you like gripping thrillers with a horror flavor, I'm fairly certain all the Simone St. James books I've read so far have had 2 POV characters. The Broken Girls
The Sun Down Motel
The Book of Cold Cases
The Book of Cold Cases isn't coming out until March (I have an advance copy) so it would also work for the "published in 2022" prompt.
Does anyone know of any nonfiction books related to this subject?
Ron wrote: "Does anyone know of any nonfiction books related to this subject?"Me and Sister Bobbie: True Tales of the Family Band is a joint memoir written by Willie Nelson and his sister Bobbie in alternating chapters.
I was going through my shelves at this point and came across Parkland Speaks: Survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas Share Their Stories .Though I've read it before it's been a while and I think it would be good since it's about one event but told from many of the student's own experiences.
Jennifer W wrote: "Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia would work."This one seems like a good one. I'm always looking for books on mental illness as well so I'll save it.
The Vanishing Half, The lost apothecary, Slow Fire Burning
I second Revolution. I read it a few years ago and loved it. I love her works. The Lost Apothecary I haven't been able to get into, but fits well. Same with Ninth House, which I'm currently reading, but have mixed feelings about but many others seem to enjoy.
The Ruin of Kings is good and can be comical for high fantasy. It tells the story of the same character from the character's POV and also an outsider's POV at different times in the main character's life. It's long so you'll be in for a long haul on this one.
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Yeah it seems to pop up a lot in the books I read, too. So instead of jotting down a bunch of ideas, I just left this one at "tbd" because I KNOW I'll read a book that fits, it's just question of which book I read first. Because it's so easy for me, I'm going to be strict and only count books with TWO POVs, not three or more.
Nadine in NY wrote: "I am currently reading (and disliking! I'm probably going to DNF. But don't let that stop you hahaha!!) The Elegance of the Hedgehog."
UGH that is the most pretentious book I've ever read.
LOL YES!
Nadine in NY wrote: "Because it's so easy for me, I'm going to be strict and only count books with TWO POVs, not three or more."Yeah, I'm fairly certain I'm going to end up fulfilling this one by accident. I'm only going to count books with exactly two main POVs, although I wouldn't disqualify a book for having e.g. a prologue or a few minor scenes from other characters.
Silver Sparrow is amazing - one of my favourites from the 2021 challenge. From the pov of two sisters whose dad is a bigamist. Would also fit book set in the 1980s, a secret and someone leading a double life.
Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel CohnLittle Lovely Things by Maureen Joyce Connolly
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis - 2 different characters in 2 time periods but do meet in same time period in later part 9f book with tgeir srparate pov continuing.
Would this work?Covid Chronicles: A Comics Anthology
Even though it has more than one POV/more than one story because it is a GN I figured I would but I want other opinions.
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The War Outside by Monica Hesse is a WWII Historical Fiction book set in the Internment Camps. The POVs are a Japanese-American teenage girl and a German-American teenage girl. Highly recommend!
I read a lot of books with multiple POV (Gone Girl seems like a classic example), but I found this intriguing book, that looks like it has 3 POV. I would have chosen to take the 2022 theme literally, and gone with 2 POV, but I really want to read this one!Loquela
By Carlos Labbé, translated by Will Vanderhyden
While many books on this list are considered more cozy mysteries, this book is a bit genre defying, maybe even post-modern. A Chilean writer named Carlos is writing a book about a writer also named Carlos. When he receives a strange letter from a recently murdered woman named Violeta, he tries to figure out what happened. But things get weird when fictional characters in the book pop up in the writer’s life. Told in three points of view —from the book, Carlos’ diary and the letter— the book explores the limits of storytelling and writing, and detective fiction.
This sounds right up my alley!
I see that The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is on the listopia. From what I know it’s told from the POV from the same character but in different bodies, correct? I’m trying to find something that fits the category without stretching it but I might still use this if that’s the case because I’ve been wanting to read it lol
Lindsey wrote: "I see that The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is on the listopia. From what I know it’s told from the POV from the same character but in different bodies, correct? I’m trying to find something t..."Yeah, that's correct. It's not really multi-pov in the sense that you are always reading from the same character, but it's kind of multi-pov in that the character is experiencing things through different POVs. So it's a stretch but it's not that big a stretch.
I’m currently reading Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Has anyone read Fleishman Is in Trouble and can say whether it fits this prompt? I thought I remembered hearing it goes between the points of view of two spouses but can’t remember for sure.
My copy of Covid Chronicles: A Comics Anthology arrived so I'll be reading this one.Though it's a graphic novel it tells perspectives from more than one POV as it's various experiences people have had with covid.
The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James is a fantastic book with two povs.
I'm reading Penance by Kanae Minato which gives four different points of view of the same story about the murder of a young girl.
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Yes, and I don't remember 2 POVs.
This is from my review (and I didn't spoiler tag it in my review, so when the book was fresh in my mind, I did not consider this a spoiler):
The book opens telling Toby’s story, and slowly it becomes clear that Toby is not being completely honest, and, while he’s mostly a likable mensch, he’s also kind of an asshole. By Part 2, the reader has gotten a firm grip on who the narrator is: Libby Epstein. And by Part 3, we finally hear Rachel’s side of the story. Those are all the main characters, but really this book is about Libby. Libby is always telling the story, but she usually hides behind the story she’s telling. You have to be patient to get a glimpse of the real Libby. At one point, she tells us that she would like to write a book, but she won’t make it about herself, she will hide behind other characters.
If you enjoy a police procedural, Malice by Keigo Higashino is a good character study.
The Reading List - Technically it has more than two POV, but it centers mostly around two main ones. Read this one for the book group I belong to.
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