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
| 4.55 | 931 reads |
 Dune
| 4.29 | 2,414 reads |
 The Way of Kings
| 4.61 | 1,391 reads |
 Piranesi
| 4.24 | 1,026 reads |
 The Fifth Season
| 4.34 | 901 reads |
 Mistborn: The Final Empire
| 4.43 | 1,869 reads |
 The Lies of Locke Lamora
| 4.28 | 759 reads |
 Annihilation
| 3.66 | 760 reads |
 The Night Circus
| 3.88 | 879 reads |
 The Books of Earthsea
| 4.04 | 18 reads |
 The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
| 4.58 | 805 reads |
 A Game of Thrones
| 4.39 | 2,058 reads |
 A Memory Called Empire
| 4.17 | 416 reads |
 Roadside Picnic
| 4.02 | 213 reads |
 Uprooted
| 3.99 | 453 reads |
 Jade City
| 4.1 | 478 reads |
 The Golden Compass
| 4.04 | 1,157 reads |
 The Shadow of the Torturer
| 3.64 | 148 reads |
 American Gods
| 4.02 | 1,382 reads |
 Lirael
| 4.19 | 167 reads |
 Perdido Street Station
| 4 | 200 reads |
 The City of Brass
| 4.06 | 295 reads |
 Gardens of the Moon
| 3.96 | 408 reads |
 Tongue Eater
| 4 | 17 reads |
 Throne of Glass
| 3.9 | 853 reads |
 City of Miracles
| 4.45 | 63 reads |
 Into the Labyrinth
| 4.25 | 16 reads |
 We Have Always Lived in the Castle
| 4 | 374 reads |
 An Ember in the Ashes
| 4.17 | 290 reads |
 The City We Became
| 3.87 | 264 reads |
 The Amber Spyglass
| 4 | 560 reads |
 Foundation
| 3.99 | 951 reads |
 Finch
| 4.11 | 18 reads |
 Hyperion
| 4.28 | 680 reads |
 Soulless
| 3.9 | 186 reads |
 Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners
| 3.03 | 37 reads |
 The Subtle Knife
| 4.09 | 626 reads |
 The Briar Book of the Dead
| 5 | 1 read |
 Ancillary Justice
| 4 | 455 reads |
 Fly by Night
| 3.8 | 14 reads |
 The Darkness Outside Us
| 4.03 | 49 reads |
 A Deadly Education
| 3.95 | 438 reads |
 Neverwhere | 4.14 | 761 reads |
 Helliconia Summer
| 3.17 | 9 reads |
 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
| 4.01 | 459 reads |
 The Mask of Mirrors
| 4.33 | 43 reads |
 Wool
| 4.11 | 649 reads |
 Spiritwalk
| 4 | 7 reads |
 Burn for me
| 4.24 | 59 reads |
 The Dreaming Place
| 5 | 1 read |
 The Tombs of Atuan
| 4.03 | 258 reads |
 Gideon the Ninth
| 4.06 | 677 reads |
 A Face Like Glass
| 4.22 | 21 reads |
 The Martian
| 4.4 | 1,952 reads |
 Red Rising
| 4.11 | 1,135 reads |
 Fairy Tale
| 3.98 | 358 reads |
 Crown of Midnight
| 4.26 | 651 reads |
 Nine Princes in Amber
| 3.62 | 138 reads |
 The Eye of the World
| 4.01 | 996 reads |
 The Heritage of Hastur
| 3.5 | 6 reads |
 The Traitor Baru Cormorant
| 3.84 | 170 reads |
 The Priory of the Orange Tree
| 4.11 | 414 reads |
 Child of the River
| 4.33 | 5 reads |
 Artemis
| 3.62 | 733 reads |
 The Saga of the Witcher
| 0 | 0 reads |
 Malice
| 3.98 | 177 reads |
 The Magic of Recluce
| 3.67 | 53 reads |
 House of Leaves
| 4.15 | 341 reads |
 The Awakening The Awakening
| 3.31 | 89 reads |
 The City & The City
| 3.97 | 212 reads |
 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
| 4.29 | 4,312 reads |
 Neuromancer
| 3.86 | 769 reads |
 We Hunt the Flame
| 3.66 | 90 reads |
 A Study in Drowning
| 3.65 | 101 reads |
 Perelandra
| 3.97 | 71 reads |
 A Magic Steeped in Poison
| 3.76 | 80 reads |
 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind: The Complete Series
| 4.86 | 10 reads |
 The Curse of Chalion
| 4.21 | 126 reads |
 The Ginger Star
| 4 | 1 read |
 Dark Matter
| 4.04 | 1,075 reads |
 Winter's Tale
| 3.82 | 25 reads |
 The Many Coloured Land & The Golden Torc
| 4.5 | 2 reads |
