Always Coming Home by Ursula K LeGuin - a fictional ethnography (so written in past tense, and like it’s nonfiction, but it’s all made up) of a future society that doesn’t exist yet. Also multimodal (poems, narrative, songs, etc) and an interesting use of collective perspectives & points of view
Also the Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (each book is a day in the narrator’s real time where his life has gone to shit, and he spends the book telling part of his life story from before - but the series is unfinished rn) and the Locked Tomb series by Tasmyn Muir (plays around a lot with timelines and second/third person switches)
Always Coming Home by Ursula K LeGuin - a fictional ethnography (so written in past tense, and like it’s nonfiction, but it’s all made up) of a future society that doesn’t exist yet. Also multimodal (poems, narrative, songs, etc) and an interesting use of collective perspectives & points of view
Also the Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (each book is a day in the narrator’s real time where his life has gone to shit, and he spends the book telling part of his life story from before - but the series is unfinished rn) and the Locked Tomb series by Tasmyn Muir (plays around a lot with timelines and second/third person switches)