The islanders

Not an easy read. Priest puts together a group of stories about many islands that are part of an archipelago. The book appears to be set up as a sort of travel guide/history but it strays from that to tell connecting short stories with various recurring characters.

The reader has to put together a narrative from the bits that happened at each island and it's not chronological. There's action, science fiction, romance, and mystery involved in the stories.

If you're bored of the standard narrative structure, this one is interesting and worth a try.