Unique Books I Have Read and Loved

I have such a bias towards unqiue books. Regardless of actual quality, I'm always tagging on an extra star for that feeling of 'I've never read anything like this before and I doubt I'll ever read anything like this again'. And when they're actually written successfully? You can garuntee that I'll be throwing paperback copies of whoever comes my way.

A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
Schwab's insanely original ideas are one of the reasons she's my favourite author. ADSOM is about 4 parallel universes all containing a city called London. I'm a total ideas over execution person when it comes to my own writing, but Schwab has both of those things down which is incredible.

Because You'll Never Meet Me by Leah Thomas
This is a sweet little existential-sci-fi-contemporary-speculative-fiction book about two boys who can never meet because one is allergic to electricity and the other has a pacemaker. They get in contact and write letters about their lives and discover a shared past and it's truely precious.

More Than This by Patrick Ness
This book is the very definition of an existential crisis. It's one of those books I had to put down at times because the twists were too big and I needed to breathe. To say what it's about would be to give a lot away, but all I'll say is that it's about a boy who thinks he died... but then wakes up.

And I Darken by Kiersten White
There are probably plenty of books similar to And I Darken that I haven't read, simply because I'm just not that big on historical fiction. But I doubt there are too many historical books where they replace a key MALE historical figure with a murderous and cruel young woman.

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
I know David Mitchell's books aren't to everyone's tastes, but boy did I love Cloud Atlas. It's about 6 different lives across time that are all interconnected by a shared birthmark and a string of music, and each of their sections in the book is in a different writing style (some better than others).

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
This book is about several different points in the life of Holly Sykes, from being a teenage runaway to watching the world fall to pieces before her, and how a series of small events in her lifetime are connected by a strange truth: that there are beings free from the limitations of time.

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The writing style of The Night Circus is what makes it stand apart from anything I've ever read. The language really captures the essence of circus magic and is utterly atmospheric, and the story is just as splendid, focusing on an age long rivalry between magicians and their heirs.

The Host by Stephenie Meyer
I read The Host an incredibly long time ago, but I don't recall coming across anything anywhere near as similar to the story. It's about an otherworldly species that essentially reincarnate on different planets, that have now come to earth to use humans as their vessels, and it's pretty darn cool.

What books have you read that feel completely one-of-a-kind? Have you read any of the books on my list or anything similar? Do you think all books need something unique to be any good?

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