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Second-person fiction

Rank Title Author Added

1

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

12,541 members

258 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Dilara86, spiphany

2

This Mournable Body

by Tsitsi Dangarembga

359 members

12 reviews

3.2

2 Members: spiphany, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Fifth Season

by N. K. Jemisin

8,037 members

364 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

4

by Chuck Palahniuk

6,875 members

85 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

5

Bright Lights, Big City

by Jay McInerney

2,986 members

47 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

6

by Jamaica Kincaid

1,294 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: spiphany

7

by Caleb Azumah Nelson

482 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: spiphany

8

The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty

by Vendela Vida

404 members

28 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: spiphany

9

by Nuruddin Farah

345 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Dilara86

10

by Harry Mulisch

162 members

3 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: spiphany

11

139 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: spiphany

12

In the United States of Africa

by Abdourahman A. Waberi

100 members

8 reviews

3.1

Member: spiphany

13

by Zoran Drvenkar

96 members

9 reviews

4.1

Member: spiphany

14

by Janne Teller

87 members

6 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: spiphany

15

The English Years

by Norbert Gstrein

46 members

1 review

3

Member: spiphany

16

In the End, It Was All About Love

by Musa Okwonga

34 members

1 review

4.9

Member: spiphany

17

by John von Düffel

12 members

2.8

Member: spiphany

18

Fremdschläfer: Roman

by Verena Stefan

6 members

4

Member: spiphany

19

by Nalo Hopkinson

6 members

1 review

2.8

Member: spiphany

20

The Mountain and the Feather

by John Ashmead

2 members

Member: spiphany

21

Spiegelgeschichte

by Ilse Aichinger

1 member

Member: spiphany

22

1 member

Member: spiphany

23

by Ekaterina Sedia

1 member

Member: spiphany

24

The Crimson Petal and the White

by Michel Faber

6,750 members

197 reviews

3.9

25

The Name of This Book Is Secret

by Pseudonymous Bosch

3,090 members

96 reviews

3.8

26

Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

2,687 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

27

by Charles Stross

2,604 members

122 reviews

½ 3.7

28

Citizen: An American Lyric

by Claudia Rankine

2,028 members

68 reviews

½ 4.3

29

by Lucy Christopher

1,880 members

141 reviews

3.9

30

Stranger Things Happen: Stories

1,687 members

54 reviews

4

31

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

by David Eagleman

1,554 members

85 reviews

4

32

by Charles Stross

1,269 members

65 reviews

½ 3.6

33

by Carlos Fuentes

1,131 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

34

How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia

by Mohsin Hamid

1,104 members

91 reviews

3.9

35

The Way to Paradise

by Mario Vargas Llosa

1,021 members

21 reviews

½ 3.6

36

by Walker Percy

995 members

11 reviews

½ 3.6

37

992 members

54 reviews

½ 4.3

38

888 members

50 reviews

3.9

39

A Prayer for the Dying

by Stewart O'Nan

689 members

39 reviews

4

40

All the Truth That's in Me

661 members

43 reviews

3.9

41

by Patrick deWitt

382 members

27 reviews

½ 3.5

42

by Georges Perec

372 members

10 reviews

3.8

43

Borges and the Eternal Orangutans

by Luís Fernando Verissimo

333 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

44

Blink & Caution

by Tim Wynne-Jones

315 members

16 reviews

3.8

45

307 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

46

by Charles Benoit

307 members

42 reviews

½ 3.6

47

America Is Not the Heart

by Elaine Castillo

305 members

12 reviews

½ 3.5

48

by Edna O'Brien

255 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

49

The Case of Dr. Sachs

by Martin Winckler

240 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

50

With Your Crooked Heart

by Helen Dunmore

219 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

51

by B. S. Johnson

196 members

4 reviews

3.8

52

A Change of Heart

by Michel Butor

180 members

4 reviews

4.1

53

Caretakers of Wonder

by Cooper Edens

93 members

4.2

54

Welcome to Our Hillbrow

by Phaswane Mpe

90 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

55

by Keith Roberts

84 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

56

Beach Red: A Novel

by Peter Bowman

81 members

3.9

57

A Dutiful Daughter

by Thomas Keneally

56 members

½ 2.7

58

The Treatment & The Cure

46 members

1 review

3.8

59

by Mauricio Segura

17 members

60

The Encounter (Romanian Literature)

by Gabriela Adamesteanu

14 members

½ 4.5

61

by Gunther Geltinger

13 members

4

62

11 members

63

Reflections (Dutch Writing)

by Mark Insingel

5 members

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Started: spiphany
June 2014
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