Ten Favorite Novels with Collective Narrators

(alphabetically by author, with a first person plural soundtrack)

 

  • Such Small Hands by Andrés Barba (roughly half first person plural, half third person singular)

  • The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

  • Space Invaders by Nona Fernández

  • Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris

  • The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez

  • The Notebook by Ágota Kristóf

  • A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet (mostly)

  • A Reunion of Ghosts by Judith Claire Mitchell

  • The Fates Will Find Their Way by Hannah Pittard

  • We the Animals by Justin Torres (until near the end)

— January 12, 2021


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