I'm interested in new genre books where the setting is almost like a character. I'm especially interested in books that also have a strong plot. For me, the prime example is "Finch" by Jeff vandermeer. Maybe "City of Miracles" by Robert Jackson Bennett. What are books like this for you?
 The Lord of the Rings
| 4.53 | 1,148 reads | ||
 Dune
| 4.28 | 2,979 reads | ||
 The Way of Kings
| 4.6 | 1,745 reads | ||
 Piranesi
| 4.24 | 1,251 reads | ||
 Mistborn: The Final Empire
| 4.44 | 2,346 reads | ||
 The Fifth Season
| 4.35 | 1,075 reads | ||
 The Lies of Locke Lamora
| 4.27 | 921 reads | ||
 Annihilation
| 3.71 | 937 reads | ||
 The Night Circus
| 3.91 | 1,056 reads | ||
 The Return of the King
| 4.58 | 1,048 reads | ||
 The Books of Earthsea
| 4.26 | 24 reads | ||
 A Game of Thrones
| 4.38 | 2,556 reads | ||
 A Memory Called Empire
| 4.15 | 482 reads | ||
 Roadside Picnic
| 3.98 | 262 reads | ||
 Uprooted
| 3.98 | 541 reads | ||
 Jade City
| 4.09 | 547 reads | ||
 The Golden Compass
| 4.04 | 1,454 reads | ||
 A Deadly Education
| 3.98 | 514 reads | ||
 The Shadow of the Torturer
| 3.7 | 182 reads | ||
 American Gods
| 4.02 | 1,692 reads | ||
 Lirael
| 4.28 | 201 reads | ||
 The City of Brass
| 4.06 | 348 reads | ||
 Gardens of the Moon
| 3.99 | 490 reads | ||
 Foundation
| 3.98 | 1,179 reads | ||
 Perdido Street Station
| 3.98 | 254 reads | ||
 The Tombs of Atuan
| 4.01 | 328 reads | ||
 An Ember in the Ashes
| 4.14 | 348 reads | ||
 Throne of Glass
| 3.89 | 1,118 reads | ||
 The Amber Spyglass
| 4.01 | 705 reads | ||
 The Subtle Knife
| 4.1 | 790 reads | ||
 The City We Became
| 3.84 | 323 reads | ||
 We Have Always Lived in the Castle
| 3.94 | 480 reads | ||
 Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners
| 3.11 | 46 reads | ||
 Into the Labyrinth
| 3.98 | 38 reads | ||
 Nine Princes in Amber
| 3.61 | 171 reads | ||
 Finch
| 3.97 | 19 reads | ||
 Hyperion
| 4.26 | 833 reads | ||
 City of Miracles
| 4.42 | 75 reads | ||
 Neverwhere
| 4.11 | 930 reads | ||
 The Martian
| 4.41 | 2,420 reads | ||
 Tongue Eater
| 4.09 | 26 reads | ||
 Wool
| 4.11 | 832 reads | ||
 Soulless
| 3.84 | 225 reads | ||
 Gideon the Ninth
| 4.09 | 799 reads | ||
 A Face Like Glass
| 4.09 | 26 reads | ||
 The Darkness Outside Us
| 4.16 | 68 reads | ||
 Ancillary Justice
| 3.98 | 563 reads | ||
 The Saga of the Witcher
| 5 | 1 read | ||
 The Priory of the Orange Tree
| 4.08 | 510 reads | ||
 Red Rising
| 4.11 | 1,412 reads | ||
 Fairy Tale
| 3.93 | 441 reads | ||
 Crown of Midnight
| 4.25 | 867 reads | ||
 Child of the River
| 4.33 | 5 reads | ||
 The Briar Book of the Dead
| 4.08 | 7 reads | ||
 The Heritage of Hastur
| 3.83 | 9 reads | ||
 Helliconia Summer
| 3.17 | 9 reads | ||
 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
| 3.99 | 561 reads | ||
 The Mask of Mirrors
| 4.36 | 51 reads | ||
 Spiritwalk
| 4 | 8 reads | ||
 Burn for me
| 4.11 | 72 reads | ||
 Fly by Night
| 3.8 | 14 reads | ||
 The Dreaming Place
| 4.5 | 3 reads | ||
 The Eye of the World
| 4.02 | 1,196 reads | ||
 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind: The Complete Series
| 4.72 | 14 reads | ||
 Neuromancer
| 3.83 | 941 reads | ||
 The City & The City
| 3.94 | 267 reads | ||
 The Many Coloured Land & The Golden Torc
| 4.5 | 2 reads | ||
 Dark Matter
| 4.03 | 1,332 reads | ||
 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
| 4.3 | 5,367 reads | ||
 House of Leaves
| 4.12 | 433 reads | ||
 The Magic of Recluce
| 3.58 | 72 reads | ||
 In the Belly of the Whale
| 4 | 1 read | ||
 Ender's Game
| 4.25 | 2,013 reads | ||
 The Traitor Baru Cormorant
| 3.9 | 199 reads | ||
 Children of Time
| 4.27 | 759 reads | ||
 Winter's Tale
| 3.85 | 28 reads | ||
 The Ginger Star
| 4 | 1 read | ||
 The Curse of Chalion
| 4.22 | 149 reads | ||
 A Magic Steeped in Poison
| 3.74 | 96 reads | ||
 A Study in Drowning
| 3.55 | 136 reads | ||
 Heroes Die
| 4.11 | 39 reads | ||
 Truthwitch
| 3.45 | 106 reads | ||
 Perelandra
| 3.96 | 90 reads | ||
 Revelation Space
| 3.83 | 243 reads | ||
 The Hobbit
| 4.3 | 3,516 reads | ||
 Artemis
| 3.62 | 920 reads | ||
 Seveneves
| 3.89 | 479 reads | ||
 Malice
| 3.98 | 212 reads | ||
 Adventure in Forgotten Valley
| 4 | 1 read | ||
 Zodiac Academy: The Awakening
| 3.35 | 126 reads | ||
 Black Sun
| 4.1 | 211 reads | ||
 We Hunt the Flame
| 3.73 | 114 reads |
