A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)
George R.R. Martin is not the first author to have his story told by multiple characters in the book, but I think that he is the best. He is able to capture the voice of the young and the old, the innocent and the corrupt with equal perfection. The series starts off by hinting at the big “unknown” on the other side of the Wall. Martin masterfully moves all about this world, having us watch as one thing happens as a result of the others that came before. Martin is also not afraid of killing off characters if it furthers the plot. As he gets rid of one voice, he replaces it with another, usually from a completely different view point. Some of the deaths we get to experience from the dying person’s prospective, sometimes from a spectator, sometimes they are a foot note in someone else’s day a thousand miles away. While some of my favorite characters were gotten rid of, he replaces them with others that I found that I had some strong emotion for, usually intense protectiveness or deep hatred. While this is a fictional setting, it gives you a feel for how our world may work if we got to look down on it all from above.