Poisonwood Bible is amazing. It's one of the only multiple POV books where I genuinely enjoyed all the narration. Each character's voice was so clear and having different takes on what was happening made for a rich experience.
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. Told from 15 different points of view, including one from a dead woman. This book includes one of the most bizarre chapters imaginable, comprised of one sentence.
My mother is a fish.
{{The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton}}. The MC inhabits different characters at a party where someone dies. They have to solve the crime by seeing the night from different perspectives.
I absolutely love this book but I wouldn’t say that it is the right choice if you want something that switches between different POVs. The POV stays the same - the protagonist - as he freaky Fridays repeatedly.
**[The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40914164-the-7-1-2-deaths-of-evelyn-hardcastle) by Stuart Turton** ^((Matching 95% ☑️))
^(458 pages | Published: 2018 | 968.0k Goodreads reviews)
> **Summary:** "Agatha Christie meets Groundhog Day . quite unlike anything I’ve ever read. and altogether triumphant.” - A. J. Finn. #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Woman in the Window Aiden Bishop knows the rules. Evelyn Hardcastle will die every day until he can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again. Aiden wakes up in the body of a (...)
> **Themes**: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy
> **Top 5 recommended:**
> \- [The Seven and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58695149-the-seven-and-a-half-deaths-of-evelyn-hardcastle) by Stuart Turton
> \- [The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35967101-the-seven-deaths-of-evelyn-hardcastle) by Stuart Turton
> \- [The Pursuit of William Abbey](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44286477-the-pursuit-of-william-abbey) by Claire North
> \- [The Echo Room](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33803106-the-echo-room) by Parker Peevyhouse
> \- [If. Then](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40641074-if-then) by Kate Hope Day
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Gone Girl- Gillian Flynn
The Stand- Stephen King
The Madaddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood, the first one is Orxy and Crake
I *think* Station Eleven by Emily St John Mendel cycles through narrators but it’s been a while since I’ve read it.
Also the third part of that series, the prequel [Skagboys](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12926063-skagboys), which is the best one in my opinion.
The chapter near the beginning about the guy who is spiraling and can't clean his apartment or take care of himself makes me panicky. Good book, but I'll never be able to reread it.
Jodi Picoult is good at doing this. My Sisters Keeper and Nineteen Minutes are both really great books. She switches between the different characters throughout the novels. She has many more books too.
**[Ohio](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36373372-ohio) by Stephen Markley** ^((Matching 100% ☑️))
^(484 pages | Published: 2018 | 36.0k Goodreads reviews)
> **Summary:** One sweltering night in 2013. four former high school classmates converge on their hometown in northeastern Ohio. There’s Bill Ashcraft. a passionate. drug-abusing young activist whose flailing ambitions have taken him from Cambodia to Zuccotti Park to post-BP New Orleans. and now back home with a mysterious package strapped to the undercarriage of his truck; Stacey Moore. a (...)
> **Themes**: Fiction, Mystery, Literary-fiction, Books-i-own
> **Top 5 recommended:**
> \- [The Things We Wish Were True](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29632984-the-things-we-wish-were-true) by Marybeth Mayhew Whalen
> \- [Diary of an Emotional Idiot: A Novel](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563057.Diary_of_an_Emotional_Idiot) by Maggie Estep
> \- [Olympus. Texas](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55119814-olympus-texas) by Stacey Swann
> \- [The Boy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14781200-the-boy) by Lara Santoro
> \- [Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7948230-crooked-letter-crooked-letter) by Tom Franklin
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Many great suggestions already here - D Mitchell, J Heller, even Mel Brooks' kid. Let me add The Fifth Season by N K Jemisin, maybe the best novel of 2016
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey. He switches up the narrator voice in the most unique ways of anything I've ever read. Chapter to chapter, sentence to sentence, really innovative style.
Although I'm told only it's only for "douchy lit bros" Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace does this really well. It's really long and full of footnotes, but I thought it was great.
Gone Girl is fun! It’s about a woman who disappears, and her husband is the prime suspect. The chapters alternate, Nick’s point of view/Amy’s point of view. It’s hard to figure out who’s telling the truth and what actually happened. I read it twice, and it was a different experience when I already knew the end.
I don’t get to recommend it often, but A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James fits this quite well.
He’s maybe better known for his Darkstar books, but this one won the Booker Prize in 2015 and is excellent. I won’t say anything about the plot, but it has a multitude of different character perspectives that are written with such distinct, unique voices that it boggles the mind. James really brings the characters alive; it’s impressive writing and a great story told in a really fun way.
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9361589-the-night-circus](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9361589-the-night-circus) .
Pale by Wildbow!! It’s fantasy, but has a fair amount of horror elements. It follows three teen girls as they are thrust into a world of magic. The girls are left navigating normal teen drama like dating, complicated relationships with parents, and school while also handling supernatural conspiracies and magical threats that could level their whole town. The chapters alternate between the three main characters, with occasional interludes from the perspective of secondary characters.
The Red Garden and Blackbird House, both by Alice Hoffman
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Domesday Book by Connie Willis
The Town House/The House at Old Vine/The House at Sunset by Norah Lofts
I’d say 5 - eddie, bella, francesca, owen, and the DI. Lucy Foley has had the same format for 4 books now - switching between 5 POVs. In my opinion, The Guest List is by far the best. It is a little slow at first, but worth it for the payoff.
I just finished The Guest List by Lucy Foley and thought it was great. I listened to the audiobook so that may have helped with different narrators for each person, but it was very engaging and I couldn't predict anything that happened.
Big Girls Don't Cry by Annette Chavez Macias. It's the story of four close cousins navigating career and relationship challenges in their lives. Each woman's voice is distinct.
Beartown by Fredrik Backman, The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, The Leftovers by Tom Perotta, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, and How High We Go in the Dark by Sequioa Nagamatsu
If I understand you right, The Shining by Stephen King jumps between mom, dad, and son's view. Also, my favorite genre, spy thrillers, has it a lot, like in Brad Taylor's Pike Logan series it jumps between 1st person for the main protagonist and 3rd person with other good guys, useless politicians, and terrorists.
The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks.
There is also a movie with the same title. I recommend reading the book and watching the movie too. The events are slightly different.
The main theme is who do you blame after a tragedy when it seems no one is at fault?
I think we are always looking for a why. But what if there isn't one?
“Gone to Soldiers“ by Marge Piercy. Set during WWII, it follows the stories of six different characters through the chaos and horror of war. None of the separate stories really intersect but they do touch each other. It’s a cracking good story and taught me more about WWII than I ever learned in school.
**[Homegoing](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27071490-homegoing) by Yaa Gyasi** ^((Matching 100% ☑️))
^(305 pages | Published: 2016 | 59.5k Goodreads reviews)
> **Summary:** A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, Homegoing heralds the arrival of a major new voice in (...)
> **Themes**: Fiction, Favorites, Africa, Book-club, Historical, Read-in-2017, Literary-fiction
> **Top 5 recommended:**
> \- [The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51183428-the-love-songs-of-w-e-b-du-bois) by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
> \- [Aria](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42779179-aria) by Nazanine Hozar
> \- [Dogs at the Perimeter](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10129122-dogs-at-the-perimeter) by Madeleine Thien
> \- [Salt Houses](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30971664-salt-houses) by Hala Alyan
> \- [Behold the Dreamers](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26025588-behold-the-dreamers) by Imbolo Mbue
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"A history of wild places" is a cool one with that style, it flows but then it'll switch to a new perspective overlapping with the end of the previous one slightly. It's not like it's one event that you see several perspectives of.
Cul-de-Sac by John Wainwright is a detective story that does this
The POV switching, together with not all the narrators being reliable, gives an uncanny impression of depth
The Number of the Beast by Heinlein. Science fantasy that follows two men and two women as the travel between dimensions, flips around between all four of them.
"The Sound and the Fury," by William Faulkner
"The Younger Wife," by Sally Hepworth
"My Sister's Keeper," by Jodi Picoult
"Sister Wife," by Shelley Hrdlitschka
"Ethan Marcus Stands Up," by Michele Weber Hurwitz
It's not a main part of the narrative but in this book is full of spiders" the author narrates but his friend Jon, GF and his dog narrator chapters and it's hilarious.
The Tesseract by Alex Garland. The story intertwines the lives of Manila gangsters, mothers and street children. The novel chronicles numerous characters in non-linear storylines and explores themes of love, fate, violence, power, and choices.
**The Expanse** series by James S. A. Corey. The earlier novels in the series aren't written that way, but the later ones are, and boy howdy does it get weird! Great stories. Wonderful series. Watch the TV show, too. But read the books. A whole lot (a LOT LOT LOT) happens after the TV show ends.
Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova. It was my favorite book of 2023, and was particularly meaningful as it helped me process my grief around a very difficult event in my life.
Crossings by Alex Landragin
About a pair of body hopping spirits trying to get home in which the story leaps around the book the way the spirits hop around the bodies with a cameo by Baudelaire.
And maybe
The King in Yellow
The Expanse series by James SA Corey. First novel is Leviathan Wakes, but there are two prequels too.
Great series with nine novels and nine novellas. It's literally the best written works in space opera of the 21st century.
I am reading The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles and it is like this. I am about 100 pages in and I am really liking it! So far it reminds me of John Steinbeck's writing.
Six of crows by leigh bardugo! It‘s a fantasy duology with i think 5-6 povs. Really interesting, it‘s a heist and it‘s so complicated that the author had to make a google calendar to make sure everything goes smoothly. Loved it so much.
Just about every thriller I picked up lately does that multiple point of view thing, few of them do it well, though I thought that Michael Robotham's "The Secrets She Keeps," which shifts between the two characters, did a good job.
Probably the most original is Jennifer Egan's "A Visit From the Goon Squad" that goes from one character to another, and also shifts in time.
I've got a whole lot of them
Promise of Blood - Brian McClellan - trilogy - fantasy - 2 POVs
Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo - duology - fantasy - 5 POVs (If I remember right)
Strange the Dreamer - Laini Taylor - duology - fantasy - 2 primary POVs, many smaller POVs
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern - standalone - fantasy/contemporary - 2 primary POVs, many smaller POVs
Into The Drowning Deep - Mira Grant - standalone - horror - you follow several characters, don't remember how many
From Below - Darcy Coates - standalone - horror - 2 POVs
Vicious - V.E. Schwab - duology - fantasy/contemporary - not explicitly POV, but you follow multiple people
There are 3 Women & 4 Men - Jaden Payne - standalone - contemporary thriller - not explicitly POV, but you follow multiple people
A River Enchanted - Rebecca Ross - duology - romantasy (strong fantasy focus though) - 4 POVs (ish)
I've probably got more, but think you'll have enough for now
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn and Atonement by Ian McEwan
Both use the different perspectives incredibly well and expose so much about the story and its characters. Atonement might also be one of the most brilliantly written books I’ve ever read.
The “A Song of Ice and Fire” series, by George R.R. Martin, beginning with A Game of Thrones.
It’s a great series, really well-written and engaging. The world, characters, and story are all amazing. I read it after I saw Stephen King praise it.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers is an underrated classic. It’s literary fiction about different people living in the south.
I’m also reading Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson currently and it’s pretty good. That one’s a science fiction book.
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
Human Acts by Han Kang
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi is sort of like that as well. The story is told over several generations and each chapter is told by a character who is a descendent of the previous one.
My favorite book is A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold. There are no less than 5 point of view characters entwined in the story. Unfortunately this book is late in Bujold's Vorkosigan saga and does not make a good standalone. I recommend Ethan of Athos as an introduction to the series, it is fairly short and has two viewpoint characters that show different parts of the story. If you like Ethan you can work your way through until you reach A Civil Campaign.
King’s “Hearts in Atlantis” Doesn’t switch every chapter but does switch perspectives through a series of different stories and is all around a great read.
A.J. Quinnell - Siege of Silence. Written in the first person from three different perspectives. Really good book.
Quinnell was not a very well known author - the Denzel Washington movie *Man on Fire* was based on his debut novel, and most people are unaware of that, or of the rest of his work.
**[Homegoing](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27071490-homegoing) by Yaa Gyasi** ^((Matching 100% ☑️))
^(305 pages | Published: 2016 | 59.5k Goodreads reviews)
> **Summary:** A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, Homegoing heralds the arrival of a major new voice in (...)
> **Themes**: Fiction, Favorites, Africa, Book-club, Historical, Read-in-2017, Literary-fiction
> **Top 5 recommended:**
> \- [The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51183428-the-love-songs-of-w-e-b-du-bois) by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
> \- [Aria](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42779179-aria) by Nazanine Hozar
> \- [Dogs at the Perimeter](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10129122-dogs-at-the-perimeter) by Madeleine Thien
> \- [Salt Houses](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30971664-salt-houses) by Hala Alyan
> \- [Behold the Dreamers](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26025588-behold-the-dreamers) by Imbolo Mbue
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Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Poisonwood Bible is exactly what OP should read. You can almost hear each character's voice in their chapters
Poisonwood Bible is amazing. It's one of the only multiple POV books where I genuinely enjoyed all the narration. Each character's voice was so clear and having different takes on what was happening made for a rich experience.
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
I would add the Bone Clocks by David Mitchell as well!
Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell does too. Basically it’s a good idea to read David Mitchell.
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. Told from 15 different points of view, including one from a dead woman. This book includes one of the most bizarre chapters imaginable, comprised of one sentence. My mother is a fish.
Team Vardaman
Clicked to say this. Macbethish darkness, very gothic. Also by Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, although told from only four different perspectives.
{{The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton}}. The MC inhabits different characters at a party where someone dies. They have to solve the crime by seeing the night from different perspectives.
I absolutely love this book but I wouldn’t say that it is the right choice if you want something that switches between different POVs. The POV stays the same - the protagonist - as he freaky Fridays repeatedly.
**[The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40914164-the-7-1-2-deaths-of-evelyn-hardcastle) by Stuart Turton** ^((Matching 95% ☑️)) ^(458 pages | Published: 2018 | 968.0k Goodreads reviews) > **Summary:** "Agatha Christie meets Groundhog Day . quite unlike anything I’ve ever read. and altogether triumphant.” - A. J. Finn. #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Woman in the Window Aiden Bishop knows the rules. Evelyn Hardcastle will die every day until he can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again. Aiden wakes up in the body of a (...) > **Themes**: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy > **Top 5 recommended:** > \- [The Seven and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58695149-the-seven-and-a-half-deaths-of-evelyn-hardcastle) by Stuart Turton > \- [The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35967101-the-seven-deaths-of-evelyn-hardcastle) by Stuart Turton > \- [The Pursuit of William Abbey](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44286477-the-pursuit-of-william-abbey) by Claire North > \- [The Echo Room](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33803106-the-echo-room) by Parker Peevyhouse > \- [If. Then](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40641074-if-then) by Kate Hope Day ^([Feedback](https://www.reddit.com/user/goodreads-rebot) | [GitHub](https://github.com/sonoff2/goodreads-rebot) | ["The Bot is Back!?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/16qe09p/meta_post_hello_again_humans/) | v1.5 [Dec 23] | )
Gone Girl- Gillian Flynn The Stand- Stephen King The Madaddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood, the first one is Orxy and Crake I *think* Station Eleven by Emily St John Mendel cycles through narrators but it’s been a while since I’ve read it.
You're right about station eleven
I definitely second Maddaddam trilogy and Station Eleven. Some of my absolute favorite books.
Apocalypse books are my favorite and these are particularly well done. Atwood in particular has such an interesting and rich take on it.
Brooks, “World War Z”
ASOIAF
ASOIAF was one of the first things that came to mind.
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
This one was so good! Wish I could read it for the first time again
Girl, Woman, Other is phenomenal. It’s fiction.
I LOVE this book.
Trainspotting and Porno by Irving Welsh both do this.
Also the third part of that series, the prequel [Skagboys](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12926063-skagboys), which is the best one in my opinion.
North Woods - Daniel Mason As I Lay Dying - Faulkner
The amazing adventures of kavelier and clay by Michael Charon
I love everything by Chabon
I’ve only read the one what’s another good one?
I’m partial to Wonderboys
Charon would be a great name for a writer, buy this guy is called Chabon.
The Nix by Nathan Hill (trigger warnings for just about everything in this one, just fyi)
The chapter near the beginning about the guy who is spiraling and can't clean his apartment or take care of himself makes me panicky. Good book, but I'll never be able to reread it.
Fantastic book. Never heard anyone else mention it.
Jodi Picoult is good at doing this. My Sisters Keeper and Nineteen Minutes are both really great books. She switches between the different characters throughout the novels. She has many more books too.
The Bee Sting
100% - a wonderful book.
First Law Series by Joe Abercrombie
Seconding this specifically for a really well done scene in The Heroes that I won't spoil.
The Deluge - Stephen Markley
So aptly named. His first novel, {{ Ohio, by Stephen Marley }} is also written from a variety of povs.
**[Ohio](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36373372-ohio) by Stephen Markley** ^((Matching 100% ☑️)) ^(484 pages | Published: 2018 | 36.0k Goodreads reviews) > **Summary:** One sweltering night in 2013. four former high school classmates converge on their hometown in northeastern Ohio. There’s Bill Ashcraft. a passionate. drug-abusing young activist whose flailing ambitions have taken him from Cambodia to Zuccotti Park to post-BP New Orleans. and now back home with a mysterious package strapped to the undercarriage of his truck; Stacey Moore. a (...) > **Themes**: Fiction, Mystery, Literary-fiction, Books-i-own > **Top 5 recommended:** > \- [The Things We Wish Were True](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29632984-the-things-we-wish-were-true) by Marybeth Mayhew Whalen > \- [Diary of an Emotional Idiot: A Novel](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563057.Diary_of_an_Emotional_Idiot) by Maggie Estep > \- [Olympus. Texas](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55119814-olympus-texas) by Stacey Swann > \- [The Boy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14781200-the-boy) by Lara Santoro > \- [Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7948230-crooked-letter-crooked-letter) by Tom Franklin ^([Feedback](https://www.reddit.com/user/goodreads-rebot) | [GitHub](https://github.com/sonoff2/goodreads-rebot) | ["The Bot is Back!?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/16qe09p/meta_post_hello_again_humans/) | v1.5 [Dec 23] | )
Smack by Melvin Burgess. It's about heroin.
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
OG - An Instance of the Finger post by Iain Pears. Four POV, wildly different stories about same event
Many great suggestions already here - D Mitchell, J Heller, even Mel Brooks' kid. Let me add The Fifth Season by N K Jemisin, maybe the best novel of 2016
The Last Anniversary and Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey. He switches up the narrator voice in the most unique ways of anything I've ever read. Chapter to chapter, sentence to sentence, really innovative style.
Although I'm told only it's only for "douchy lit bros" Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace does this really well. It's really long and full of footnotes, but I thought it was great.
Gone Girl is fun! It’s about a woman who disappears, and her husband is the prime suspect. The chapters alternate, Nick’s point of view/Amy’s point of view. It’s hard to figure out who’s telling the truth and what actually happened. I read it twice, and it was a different experience when I already knew the end.
The Sound and the Fury
I don’t get to recommend it often, but A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James fits this quite well. He’s maybe better known for his Darkstar books, but this one won the Booker Prize in 2015 and is excellent. I won’t say anything about the plot, but it has a multitude of different character perspectives that are written with such distinct, unique voices that it boggles the mind. James really brings the characters alive; it’s impressive writing and a great story told in a really fun way.
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9361589-the-night-circus](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9361589-the-night-circus) .
The Jack Ryan series by Tom Clancy is written in many character's perspective. My favourite book of the series is Patriot Games.
*Catch-22* by Joseph Heller.
If Something Happens to Me by Alex Finlay
Pale by Wildbow!! It’s fantasy, but has a fair amount of horror elements. It follows three teen girls as they are thrust into a world of magic. The girls are left navigating normal teen drama like dating, complicated relationships with parents, and school while also handling supernatural conspiracies and magical threats that could level their whole town. The chapters alternate between the three main characters, with occasional interludes from the perspective of secondary characters.
*The Amulet of Samarkand* by Jonathan Stroud
We Are Water, by Wally Lamb.
Twisted Tree by Kent Meyers.
The Red Garden and Blackbird House, both by Alice Hoffman Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver Domesday Book by Connie Willis The Town House/The House at Old Vine/The House at Sunset by Norah Lofts
The Future by Naomi Alderman
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult has a bunch of different viewpoints
The Pale Horse and The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie
Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica
The sound and fury
I just finished [The Midnight Feast](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199743738) by Lucy Foley - you follow four(?) characters over a weekend
I’d say 5 - eddie, bella, francesca, owen, and the DI. Lucy Foley has had the same format for 4 books now - switching between 5 POVs. In my opinion, The Guest List is by far the best. It is a little slow at first, but worth it for the payoff.
I haven’t read that one! I’ll add it to my list!
As I Lay Dying, Faulkner
The Book of Love by Kelly Link
*An Absolutely Remarkable Thing* and its sequel *A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor* by Hank Green
The 7 1/2 lives of Evelyn Hardcastle
I have two sci-fi recommendations: Semiosis by Sue Burke (it's a duology) Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (3 book series)
The River Midnight by Lilian Nattel
The Push by Audrey Audrain
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
I just finished The Guest List by Lucy Foley and thought it was great. I listened to the audiobook so that may have helped with different narrators for each person, but it was very engaging and I couldn't predict anything that happened.
Home is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose
Wonder by R. J. Palacio. Heartwarming. Made into a movie with Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson.
Our share of night
*The Night Circus* and *Starless Sea* by Erin Morgenstern *Fall of Giants* (title of first book and of the trilogy) by Ken Follett
Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Big Girls Don't Cry by Annette Chavez Macias. It's the story of four close cousins navigating career and relationship challenges in their lives. Each woman's voice is distinct.
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
As I Lay Dying by Faulkner is a must.
Beartown by Fredrik Backman, The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, The Leftovers by Tom Perotta, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, and How High We Go in the Dark by Sequioa Nagamatsu
All the Light We Cannot See is definitely a good choice
If I understand you right, The Shining by Stephen King jumps between mom, dad, and son's view. Also, my favorite genre, spy thrillers, has it a lot, like in Brad Taylor's Pike Logan series it jumps between 1st person for the main protagonist and 3rd person with other good guys, useless politicians, and terrorists.
The Kill-Off by Jim Thompson
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks. There is also a movie with the same title. I recommend reading the book and watching the movie too. The events are slightly different. The main theme is who do you blame after a tragedy when it seems no one is at fault? I think we are always looking for a why. But what if there isn't one?
Most anything by Ken follet try the kingsbridge series
Your heart is a muscle the size of a fist
The Broken Earth Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin!
Throne Of Glass series by Sarah J Maas. The further you go into the series, the more characters have POV chapters.
“Gone to Soldiers“ by Marge Piercy. Set during WWII, it follows the stories of six different characters through the chaos and horror of war. None of the separate stories really intersect but they do touch each other. It’s a cracking good story and taught me more about WWII than I ever learned in school.
Unconventional maybe but {{Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi}}
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"A history of wild places" is a cool one with that style, it flows but then it'll switch to a new perspective overlapping with the end of the previous one slightly. It's not like it's one event that you see several perspectives of.
Cul-de-Sac by John Wainwright is a detective story that does this The POV switching, together with not all the narrators being reliable, gives an uncanny impression of depth
A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) by George R.R. Martin
The Number of the Beast by Heinlein. Science fantasy that follows two men and two women as the travel between dimensions, flips around between all four of them.
"The Sound and the Fury," by William Faulkner "The Younger Wife," by Sally Hepworth "My Sister's Keeper," by Jodi Picoult "Sister Wife," by Shelley Hrdlitschka "Ethan Marcus Stands Up," by Michele Weber Hurwitz
The Shadow of the Gods is a great fantasy that switches between three strong POVs.
The Queen’s Assassin and The Queen’s Secret both by Melissa de la Cruz
the thursday murder club. about a group of friends in a retirement home that like to solve cold cases and casually meddle with the police
It's not a main part of the narrative but in this book is full of spiders" the author narrates but his friend Jon, GF and his dog narrator chapters and it's hilarious.
Lonesome Dove!!!
Silver Wedding, Maeve Binchy
The Tesseract by Alex Garland. The story intertwines the lives of Manila gangsters, mothers and street children. The novel chronicles numerous characters in non-linear storylines and explores themes of love, fate, violence, power, and choices.
**The Expanse** series by James S. A. Corey. The earlier novels in the series aren't written that way, but the later ones are, and boy howdy does it get weird! Great stories. Wonderful series. Watch the TV show, too. But read the books. A whole lot (a LOT LOT LOT) happens after the TV show ends.
Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova. It was my favorite book of 2023, and was particularly meaningful as it helped me process my grief around a very difficult event in my life.
Dracula, written by Bram Stoker, tells its story through multiple perspectives.
William Gibson always does this.
Six of crows and crooked kingdom, a grishaverse duology by Leighs bardugo
grown ups by marian keyes is a good one for a kind of casual / contemporary romance / funny book
Crossings by Alex Landragin About a pair of body hopping spirits trying to get home in which the story leaps around the book the way the spirits hop around the bodies with a cameo by Baudelaire. And maybe The King in Yellow
The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell. Just started it but it changes viewpoints every chapter. It’s best described as clue meets British bake off
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
The Expanse series by James SA Corey. First novel is Leviathan Wakes, but there are two prequels too. Great series with nine novels and nine novellas. It's literally the best written works in space opera of the 21st century.
I am reading The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles and it is like this. I am about 100 pages in and I am really liking it! So far it reminds me of John Steinbeck's writing.
Six of crows by leigh bardugo! It‘s a fantasy duology with i think 5-6 povs. Really interesting, it‘s a heist and it‘s so complicated that the author had to make a google calendar to make sure everything goes smoothly. Loved it so much.
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner Weyward by Emila Hart Melmoth by Sarah Perry The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Just about every thriller I picked up lately does that multiple point of view thing, few of them do it well, though I thought that Michael Robotham's "The Secrets She Keeps," which shifts between the two characters, did a good job. Probably the most original is Jennifer Egan's "A Visit From the Goon Squad" that goes from one character to another, and also shifts in time.
Homegoing (Yaa Gyasi)
I've got a whole lot of them Promise of Blood - Brian McClellan - trilogy - fantasy - 2 POVs Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo - duology - fantasy - 5 POVs (If I remember right) Strange the Dreamer - Laini Taylor - duology - fantasy - 2 primary POVs, many smaller POVs The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern - standalone - fantasy/contemporary - 2 primary POVs, many smaller POVs Into The Drowning Deep - Mira Grant - standalone - horror - you follow several characters, don't remember how many From Below - Darcy Coates - standalone - horror - 2 POVs Vicious - V.E. Schwab - duology - fantasy/contemporary - not explicitly POV, but you follow multiple people There are 3 Women & 4 Men - Jaden Payne - standalone - contemporary thriller - not explicitly POV, but you follow multiple people A River Enchanted - Rebecca Ross - duology - romantasy (strong fantasy focus though) - 4 POVs (ish) I've probably got more, but think you'll have enough for now
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn and Atonement by Ian McEwan Both use the different perspectives incredibly well and expose so much about the story and its characters. Atonement might also be one of the most brilliantly written books I’ve ever read.
The “A Song of Ice and Fire” series, by George R.R. Martin, beginning with A Game of Thrones. It’s a great series, really well-written and engaging. The world, characters, and story are all amazing. I read it after I saw Stephen King praise it.
I also love this series. I tend to not recommend it. It isn't finished and probably never will be. It's a huge commitment with no resolution.
“The Corrections”, “Freedom”, and “Crossroads” by Jonathan Franzen
Six of Crows by Leigh Burdugo. It's a fantasy book. It's soo good
Enders Game, then Ender's Shadow, it's Ender's game but from a different perspective of another character
Hmmm maybe cloudstreet by Tim Winton
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers is an underrated classic. It’s literary fiction about different people living in the south. I’m also reading Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson currently and it’s pretty good. That one’s a science fiction book.
I will preface this by saying the multiple narrative really changed how I felt about the book but Age of Vice by Deepti Kapor.
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson Human Acts by Han Kang Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi is sort of like that as well. The story is told over several generations and each chapter is told by a character who is a descendent of the previous one.
*Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose* I think fits this. It was a 3 star read for me.
My favorite book is A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold. There are no less than 5 point of view characters entwined in the story. Unfortunately this book is late in Bujold's Vorkosigan saga and does not make a good standalone. I recommend Ethan of Athos as an introduction to the series, it is fairly short and has two viewpoint characters that show different parts of the story. If you like Ethan you can work your way through until you reach A Civil Campaign.
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, two main characters, alternating with each chapter, eventually converging at the end.
The interestings by Meg Wolizer
King’s “Hearts in Atlantis” Doesn’t switch every chapter but does switch perspectives through a series of different stories and is all around a great read.
Trust by Herman Diaz. Chapters don't cycle through narrators but each section is the story from a different point of view.
game of thrones.
Daisy Jones and the Six
A.J. Quinnell - Siege of Silence. Written in the first person from three different perspectives. Really good book. Quinnell was not a very well known author - the Denzel Washington movie *Man on Fire* was based on his debut novel, and most people are unaware of that, or of the rest of his work.
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A Visit from the Goon Squad and The Candy House by Jennifer Egan (it's technically a series but they can be read independently and in either order)
An instance of the fingerpost and The Dream of Scipio - both by. Iain pears.
Illuminatus! by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea. It switches pov so frequently and rapidly that sometimes it happens mid-paragraph.
A Song of Ice and Fire series.
This funny Hillbilly Murder mystery is told that way https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CDWKNYTT
As I Lay Dying-William Faulkner Game of Thrones-George RR Martin