When I was a teenager, I remember reading a book (In Sarah’s Shadow by Karen McCombie) in which the first half was written from the perspective of the main character and the second half from that of her sister, covering the same events. I loved that concept. Can you suggest more books in which the same story is told from the viewpoints of two different characters?
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I’ll get it out of the way…..
Gone Girl.
Only Revolutions by Mark Danielewski
Toby Litt’s book ‘Deadkidsongs’ does this quite excellently… Though I can’t say it was the happiest read of my life, as the title may suggest!
Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen is a classic coming of age book with this premise.
*Fingersmith* by Sarah Waters
*The Observations* by Jane Harris
*An Instance of the Fingerpost* by Iain Pears (4 viewpoints in this case)
Jane Eyre and The Wide Sargasso Sea
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg is an absolute classic like this.
The count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas
Mathias Sandorf by Jules Vernes
Audition by Katie Kitamura
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara king solver
The Poisonwood Bible. More than one sister!
Ender’s Game, then Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card