ISO layered, immersive commercial fiction
January 30, 2021 9:27 PM   Subscribe

Looking for your best examples of unabashedly commercial novels that have managed to create a multilayered, rich world, populated by characters whose inner journeys don't just parallel the plot but actually drive it. Examples that come to mind include Tana French's In the Woods, Miriam Keyes's The Grownups, and Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty.

Recommendations from any genre welcome.
posted by rpfields to Media & Arts (4 answers total) 13 users marked this as a favorite
 
In roughly the Tana French vein, Jane Harper's The Lost Man.
posted by eponym at 9:37 PM on January 30, 2021 [5 favorites]


The book of two ways, Jodi picoilt.
posted by dpx.mfx at 10:09 PM on January 30, 2021 [1 favorite]


Elizabeth Knox, The Absolute Book.

Maybe a lot of Elizabeth Knox, come to think of it.
posted by inexorably_forward at 1:26 AM on January 31, 2021 [2 favorites]


You've mentioned Tana French, but if you haven't gotten to it, this is The Witch Elm
posted by thivaia at 7:38 AM on February 1, 2021 [1 favorite]


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