Do you like a mind fuck in your novels? Really? Me too?

Piranesi

Written by the author of Jonathan Strange and Mister Norrell – this is my favourite kind of book, where both reader and the viewpoint character have know idea what’s going on at the start of the book. I’m probably not explaining it well, so I’ll let the blurb speak for itself.

“Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house.

There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.”

– Description on Goodreads

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Look! Over there, it’s a novel that picks apart our expectations of gender by flipping the narrative!

A Brother’s Price

For years this was my favourite book of all time, and was certainly where I discovered my love for the gender inverses science fiction. It only lost its top spot in the last few years, by … well I’m getting a head of myself.

“In a world where males are rarely born, they’ve become a commodity-traded and sold like property. Jerin Whistler has come of age for marriage and his handsome features have come to the attention of the royal princesses. But such attentions can be dangerous-especially as Jerin uncovers the dark mysteries the royal family is hiding.”

– Description on Goodreads

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I Love Post-Apocalyptic narratives 😁

Station Eleven

I’ve actually talked about this book before, so check out the blog here , and you might get a good idea why this is one of my favourite books.

“Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilisation as we know it came to an end.

Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed.”

– description on Goodreads

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