is a question that comes up at regular intervals.

Waterstones Oxford St have just posted this: five novels written in second-person, with notes written in... second person.

http://www.waterstonesoxfordstreet.com/post/23729028666/five-books-about-you-stories-written-in-the

I've just picked up a YA book by Laura Wiess, written in the second person. But I just can't get into it. Maybe because it's not something we come across that often. I'm sure it grows on you - after all, it's a very direct way of writing and involving the reader.

This is a timely post (thanks for the link Emma) as I've got an assignment to complete using 2nd person POV. I thought it wasn't very common in fiction but seems there's more of it out there than I realised.

I like it. I've only read "Swimmer" that employs the second person. I've ordered that Sum too, it looks right up my strasse.

Bright Lights, Big City is great - a kind of Great Gatsby set in the 80s. The second person narrative really works because Mcinerney is so good at locations & atmosphere. The novel is almost like a film script (he later turned it into a film script, thus getting a lot of juice out of 120 pages or whatever it is), being a series of locations plus action with just enough narrative and back story to contextualise them - so when he writes that 'you' are in a club at 5am, you really feel that you are.

You're welcome, Hetty.

I love the sound of the Carlos Fuentes - might get hold of that.