The Years of Rice and Salt

One of the most beautiful books I've ever read.

A bit of a doorstop, I read this one in fits and starts over a month. The novel is set up as historical speculative fiction and concerns what the world would be like if European culture had been eradicated by the plague. The reader experiences this world through the centuries in the voice of different characters who are the same reincarnated souls.

I wish I could read it again for the first time.