Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

A Book with at Least 3 POVs

I know I've read quite a few that would qualify but my mind is blank at the moment! I personally really enjoy these books where the reader gets inside various characters' perspectives!

Oh, I do remember and looked to verify that The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley qualifies!

I am flummoxed about any nonfiction. But I hope there are some that would fulfill this prompt...

Let's build a list!

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The Fragile Threads of Power would work for this for anyone trying to fit it into the challenge. I like ensemble casts do this should be fairly easy.

I'm going to read Weyward

The Rose Code and All the Light We Cannot See come to mind!

All Lucy Foley's mysteries have 5 points of view. I'm hoping her book coming in 2024 will continue this trend.

This might be a bit tricky, especially if looking for nonfiction, because I usually come across 2 narrators.

Wool by Hugh Howey would qualify. Any of the ASOIAF books like A Game of Thrones would qualify as well.

For YA, I'm pretty sure Six of Crows would work for this. Or Crooked Kingdom if anyone already read the first book.

There There has about 12, and it's a masterpiece.

Small Great Things has 3 povs and it is amazing

House of Leaves qualifies in an enormous way. I'm in a buddy read now, and I imagine we will spend most of 2024 on this alone. I mean, we read and look up footnotes, appendices, endnotes, any rabbithole we can find. Dear God, I have read the Index lolol.
Definitely 3 major storylines and thus 3 POVs

I'm pretty sure Mirrored Heavens will have at least 3 POVs, since the previous books did. I'm tentatively putting it in here.

Lots of great books for this prompt. I'm going to read There There.

Denise wrote: "Lots of great books for this prompt. I'm going to read There There."

That's one I had considered. I might try it out if I can't find any nonfiction.

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Starting to think, could essays or anthologies be counted for this?

My son just finished One of Us Is Lying and it fit the prompt

I love multiple POV books.

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Unwind
Triangles
The Son
The Poisonwood Bible
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev

Ron wrote: "This might be a bit tricky, especially if looking for nonfiction, because I usually come across 2 narrators."

It sounds like In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors *might* be told from 3 POVs. I hope to get to it next year, so if it does, I'll come back and confirm.

Jennifer W wrote: It sounds like In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors *might* be told from 3 POVs. I hope to get to it next year, so if it does, I'll come back and confirm.

Cool. I have that in the military section of my library so I'll look into it.

The Candymakers and its sequel would qualify, and they are great books!

Sideways Stories from Wayside School and other books in that series have about 30 stories each, and all of those stories have different children as POV characters.

I just finished reading The Authenticity Project which has more than 3 POVs and was a great read!

Ron wrote: "This might be a bit tricky, especially if looking for nonfiction, because I usually come across 2 narrators."

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania covers several perspectives so it would work. The audiobook is really good too.

Also the books by Svetlana Alexievich are oral histories, so you get many many points of view.

We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria is another collection of interviews that I've been meaning to read for a while

Several Susan Howatch books would work here. Pennmaric, Cashelmara, and The wheel of Fortune come to mind.

Erin wrote: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania covers several perspectives so it would work. The audiobook is really good too.

Thanks. I think I have a copy of this one so I might add it.

It seems that a lot of military books fit this prompt.

Dracula has plenty of POVs (the two Harkers and Van Helsing for sure, plus some other articles and news clippings).

It seems like this is the only prompt where I was able to use my favorite genre of historical fiction (preferably WWII era). I'll read We Were the Lucky Ones here.

John Marrs seems to like the multi-viewpoint point. I am using The Marriage Act for this prompt.

Banyan Moon by Thao Thai alternates chapters from the grandma to mom to granddaughter.

Currently reading Six of Crows and it has far more than 3!

I just added A Little Something Different to my TBR while I was browsing for another prompt (written during NaNoWriMo), but it would fit this one too.

I started reading The Auburn Conference, and so far there have been seven different POVs, and I suspect there will be at least two more.

I just finished THE GUESTS by Margot Hunt for this prompt! Releases January 9 :)

Game of Thronea

I finished “Christmas Presents” by Lisa Unger. It undergo psychological thriller with a storyline that makes you hesitant to stop reading!

I used Our Last Days in Barcelona for this one since it has Isabel, Rosa and Alyssa ((?) the mom) all sharing their stories.

I think Jennifer Government by Max Barry has more than 3 POVs, if I remember correctly. One of my favorite books of all time.

I read She Started It for this. 5POVs at least.

All the Wheel of Time books would count, except possibly the prequel. (I think it has only two POVs.)

The Eye of the World
The Great Hunt
The Dragon Reborn
The Shadow Rising
The Fires of Heaven
Lord of Chaos
A Crown of Swords
The Path of Daggers
Winter's Heart
Crossroads of Twilight
Knife of Dreams
The Gathering Storm
Towers of Midnight
A Memory of Light

Most have at least five: Mat, Perrin, Egwene, Rand, and Nynaeve. Some don't feature all of the five main characters, and in later books you get POVs from the baddies, and we gain more main characters in later books. Sometimes even minor characters get a POV.

There's a reason the Wheel of Time has had multiple wikis since the early days of the internet! LOL

Many of Brandon Sanderson's novels are multi-viewpoint, especially the Cosmere books. Often there's two or three main POV characters, but short passages from other POVs.

Standalones:
Warbreaker (6)
Elantris (9)

All of the Stormlight Archive novels would fulfill the prompt (and then some). Not all of the novellas, though.

The Way of Kings (17)
Words of Radiance (21)
Oathbringer (29)
Rhythm of War (24)
Dawnshard (4)


The Mistborn novels all have at least four POV characters.

The Final Empire (7)
The Well of Ascension (11)
The Hero of Ages (10)
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The Alloy of Law (4)
Shadows of Self (5)
The Bands of Mourning (11)
The Lost Metal (11)

The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis seems to qualify, though I've only skimmed the sample on Amazon. It's a Kindle Unlimited selection.

The framing story is from Ashlyn's POV in the modern day. The story starts from Belle's POV, and there are two books within the book, one from Belle's POV and one from Hemi's. That's three.

Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney is also three POVS: (view spoiler)[Amelia, Adam, and the other woman (hide spoiler)].

Since number of POVs is harder to search for than dragons, I'm slotting in Fathomfolk by Eliza Chan here, which I read for review. Fantastic setting and some big ideas but I didn't click with the characters.

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

House of Leaves has at least 3 POVs.

The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore

The Overstory is told from ten points of view.

I almost DNF this book - I found the first part too long and I couldn't see where it was going. I'm glad I didn't because it was worth reading - there was some powerful and thought-provoking writing. However it was long - I don't mind reading 500+ pages in general but this one felt too long and I think one story line, although a good story in itself, could have been taken out without damaging the book and been a novella on its own.
I would also have liked to see some acknowledgement of the sources the author used for his writing on trees.

I read The Rose Code. 5 stars.

I'm going to read there, there

Possibly pushing the boundaries of the prompt but am contemplating using an anthology or short story collection as I have so many unread ones.

Cashelmara by Susan Howatch was my pick for this prompt. An intense family saga set primarily in Ireland.

Denise wrote: "I'm going to read there, there" Good choice! I used it for #29 Neurodivergent Main Character because of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (the ‘drome)