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The topic is An Unusual Viewpoint.

fantasyfan writes of the topic- A different point of view could apply to a story written from a minority social/spiritual/gender perspective. Perhaps it might incorporate an iconoclastic approach such as a narrative which views the Mount Rushmore sculpture as an insult to Native American culture. I don’t know of a book which actually uses that specific topic but such works can often be both challenging and revelatory.


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• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  Post . Goodreads . 336 Pages . Votes 5 . Run-off 2 . 1929 . The U.S.
  
  
• The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
  Post . Goodreads . 239 Pages . Votes 1 . Run-off – . 1992 . Germany
  
  
• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
  Post . Goodreads . 672 Pages . Votes 5 . Run-off 6 . 1859 . England
  
  
• Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
  Post . Goodreads . 169 Pages . Votes 5 . Run-off 2 . 1957 . Russia & the U.S.
  
  
• De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
  Post . Goodreads . 160 Pages . Votes 2 . Run-off – . 1897 . Ireland
  
  
• Historia Calamitatum by Pierre Abélard
  Post . Goodreads . 080 Pages . Votes 5 . Run-off 4 . 1135 . France
  
  
• My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
  Post . Goodreads . 434 Pages . Votes 5 . Run-off 2 . 1998 . Turkey
  
  
• The Incarnations by Susan Barker
  Post . Goodreads . 387 Pages . Votes 2 . Run-off – . 2014 . England
  
  
• Nutshell by Ian McEwan
  Post . Goodreads . 199 Pages . Votes 1 . Run-off – . 2016 . England
  
  
• Stonedogs by Craig Marriner
  Post . Goodreads . 355 Pages . Votes 1 . Run-off – . 2002 . New Zealand
  
  
• The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
  Post . Goodreads . 510 Pages . Votes 5 . Run-off 2 . 1831 . France
  
  
• Proud Beggars by Albert Cossery
  Post . Goodreads . 199 Pages . Votes 1 . Run-off – . 1955 . Egypt & France