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48 - A book with two POVs

Most romances do as well, though I know for sure Get a Life, Chloe Brown does.

Here are a couple of other GR listopias for multiple POV.
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I'll go with Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren
I think this one will be pretty easy!
I am currently reading (and disliking! I'm probably going to DNF. But don't let that stop you hahaha!!) The Elegance of the Hedgehog. It's got two POVs: the elderly concierge of an apartment building, and a precocious girl who lives in one of the apartments. If you liked The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and/or A Man Called Ove, you might like this book too.
Books I've read recently:
I just finished Hell of a Book (LOVED it!) and it's got two very confusing POVs: the author, and a mysterious kid who may or may not have the ability to become invisible.
Velvet Was the Night has two POVs: Maite and Elvis.
The Lions of Fifth Avenue & Before We Were Yours both have two POVs in two different timelines (a VERY popular structure these days, it seems)
I'll add these to the Listopia.
And, of course, almost all romance novels feature the POV of each of the romantic partners.
I am currently reading (and disliking! I'm probably going to DNF. But don't let that stop you hahaha!!) The Elegance of the Hedgehog. It's got two POVs: the elderly concierge of an apartment building, and a precocious girl who lives in one of the apartments. If you liked The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and/or A Man Called Ove, you might like this book too.
Books I've read recently:
I just finished Hell of a Book (LOVED it!) and it's got two very confusing POVs: the author, and a mysterious kid who may or may not have the ability to become invisible.
Velvet Was the Night has two POVs: Maite and Elvis.
The Lions of Fifth Avenue & Before We Were Yours both have two POVs in two different timelines (a VERY popular structure these days, it seems)
I'll add these to the Listopia.
And, of course, almost all romance novels feature the POV of each of the romantic partners.

I had a similar experience with The Elegance of the Hedgehog. It didn't pick up for me until page 147, according to my review from 2011. I know another big reader who abandoned it on page 145, and another who highly recommended it and gave it four stars. ::shrug:: It takes all kinds.


The Lost Apothecary
Serpent & Dove (I'm hoping the sequel Blood & Honey also fits, cause I haven't gotten to it yet and really want to!)
Between the Lines
Revolution
All the Light We Cannot See
The Whiskey Rebels
Thirteen Reasons Why

Another possibility occurred to me... all six books in the Fifty Shades Trilogy: Fifty Shades of Grey / Fifty Shades Darker / Fifty Shades Freed and Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian series.
Just sayin'.
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery is one of my favorite books ever and works beautifully for this prompt.



Nadine in NY wrote: "I am currently reading (and disliking! I'm probably going to DNF. But don't let that stop you hahaha!!) The Elegance of the Hedgehog."
UGH that is the most pretentious book I've ever read. I hate it. I see I gave it three stars, but I think I just didn't want to be a d*ck about hating it. I still feel angry when I see the cover in bookshops haha

I see All the Light We Cannot See and i cant recommend this book enough.
Also the whole Kiss Quotient series is 2 POVs. I just finished the last one, The Heart Principle and i loved it.
I am currently reading One Day in December and it also had 2 povs. seeing as ive been in a reading slump all year, maybe by the time i finish it it'll be 2022. lol

The Broken Girls
The Sun Down Motel
The Book of Cold Cases
The Book of Cold Cases isn't coming out until March (I have an advance copy) so it would also work for the "published in 2022" prompt.

Me and Sister Bobbie: True Tales of the Family Band is a joint memoir written by Willie Nelson and his sister Bobbie in alternating chapters.

Though I've read it before it's been a while and I think it would be good since it's about one event but told from many of the student's own experiences.

This one seems like a good one. I'm always looking for books on mental illness as well so I'll save it.

The Lost Apothecary I haven't been able to get into, but fits well. Same with Ninth House, which I'm currently reading, but have mixed feelings about but many others seem to enjoy.
The Ruin of Kings is good and can be comical for high fantasy. It tells the story of the same character from the character's POV and also an outsider's POV at different times in the main character's life. It's long so you'll be in for a long haul on this one.
poshpenny wrote: "I'm not even going to bother picking one for this. I've been feeling for months that most books I read alternate POVs and I'm getting really tired of it. There's nothing wrong with it, and it works..."
Yeah it seems to pop up a lot in the books I read, too. So instead of jotting down a bunch of ideas, I just left this one at "tbd" because I KNOW I'll read a book that fits, it's just question of which book I read first. Because it's so easy for me, I'm going to be strict and only count books with TWO POVs, not three or more.
Nadine in NY wrote: "I am currently reading (and disliking! I'm probably going to DNF. But don't let that stop you hahaha!!) The Elegance of the Hedgehog."
UGH that is the most pretentious book I've ever read.
LOL YES!
Yeah it seems to pop up a lot in the books I read, too. So instead of jotting down a bunch of ideas, I just left this one at "tbd" because I KNOW I'll read a book that fits, it's just question of which book I read first. Because it's so easy for me, I'm going to be strict and only count books with TWO POVs, not three or more.
Nadine in NY wrote: "I am currently reading (and disliking! I'm probably going to DNF. But don't let that stop you hahaha!!) The Elegance of the Hedgehog."
UGH that is the most pretentious book I've ever read.
LOL YES!

Yeah, I'm fairly certain I'm going to end up fulfilling this one by accident. I'm only going to count books with exactly two main POVs, although I wouldn't disqualify a book for having e.g. a prologue or a few minor scenes from other characters.


Little Lovely Things by Maureen Joyce Connolly
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo


Covid Chronicles: A Comics Anthology
Even though it has more than one POV/more than one story because it is a GN I figured I would but I want other opinions.
I am currently reading Places in the Darkness and it's got two POVs. (As predicted, I stumbled upon this one by accident!) Someone must have recommended this book to me when I was complaining about how much I disliked Leviathan Wakes due to its lack of complex female characters, because this book is very similar, but the two main characters (a cop & a station director) are both women, both interesting (although I'm finding one of them to be very unlikeable).


Loquela
By Carlos Labbé, translated by Will Vanderhyden
While many books on this list are considered more cozy mysteries, this book is a bit genre defying, maybe even post-modern. A Chilean writer named Carlos is writing a book about a writer also named Carlos. When he receives a strange letter from a recently murdered woman named Violeta, he tries to figure out what happened. But things get weird when fictional characters in the book pop up in the writer’s life. Told in three points of view —from the book, Carlos� diary and the letter� the book explores the limits of storytelling and writing, and detective fiction.
This sounds right up my alley!


Yeah, that's correct. It's not really multi-pov in the sense that you are always reading from the same character, but it's kind of multi-pov in that the character is experiencing things through different POVs. So it's a stretch but it's not that big a stretch.


Though it's a graphic novel it tells perspectives from more than one POV as it's various experiences people have had with covid.

Meghan wrote: "Has anyone read Fleishman Is in Trouble and can say whether it fits this prompt? I thought I remembered hearing it goes between the points of view of two spouses but can’t remember ..."
Yes, and I don't remember 2 POVs.
This is from my review (and I didn't spoiler tag it in my review, so when the book was fresh in my mind, I did not consider this a spoiler):
Yes, and I don't remember 2 POVs.
This is from my review (and I didn't spoiler tag it in my review, so when the book was fresh in my mind, I did not consider this a spoiler):
The book opens telling Toby’s story, and slowly it becomes clear that Toby is not being completely honest, and, while he’s mostly a likable mensch, he’s also kind of an asshole. By Part 2, the reader has gotten a firm grip on who the narrator is: Libby Epstein. And by Part 3, we finally hear Rachel’s side of the story. Those are all the main characters, but really this book is about Libby. Libby is always telling the story, but she usually hides behind the story she’s telling. You have to be patient to get a glimpse of the real Libby. At one point, she tells us that she would like to write a book, but she won’t make it about herself, she will hide behind other characters.

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