Clever Novels

[readingISgood]

What books have you read with a clever plot that is not cliche?

I just read Dean Koontz's Life Expectancy, and thought the plot was decently clever, and have started with Odd Thomas which is grabbing me with the new twist on the "I can see dead people" theme.

 

[unKeMPt]

Philip Roth's The Counterlife, five separate and contradictory narratives with a postmodern tie in one of the chapters

Operation Shylock: Philip Roth travels through Israel looking for his doppelganger and explores the nature of identity