One Novel, several plots.

Can anyone please suggest a novel where there are several plots?

I'm tinkering with a story about a girl who finds a journal and half the novel is about the journal.

I need some inspiration.

Thanks.

 

Well, like I said, the MC is reading a journal, so I guess there are two MCs. Both stories get equal attention and they both intertwine.

Something along those lines.

The girl who wrote the journal is from the past, but it's the same location but she is having a different experience from the present day girl

 

The Master and Margarita
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_and_Margarita#English_translations

Scenes from the real world (Soviet Union, pre-WW2) interchange with scenes from one the characters' manuscript set in Ancient Palestine.

 

I'll check it out, thanks!

 

Not a book, but the movie W.E. has some similarities. A modern day woman goes to the Wallis Simpson auction preview every day to look at the objects on display, and the objects cause flashbacks to Wallis Simpson's life with Edward, and parallels are drawn between the two women's lives.

 

Speaking of Wallis Simpson --
Famous Last Words by Timothy Findley has two parallel story lines. Both riveting, informative and thought-provoking.

 

That moment you want to suggest something but fear feeling stoopid. . But i'll give it a try.

"The Three Kingdoms" by Luo GuanZhong ,

Several plots with various factions, can't go wrong.

 

"The Thirteenth Tale" by Diane Setterfield involves two plots one present day and one in the past they intertwine and get resolved by the end. It is done beautifully and though there is crossover with young and old iterations of a MC there is tension created by the interweaving plots. well worth looking at.

 

Fried Green Tomatoes I think that had two plots.

 

King's "It" has several plots - most of the main characters have developing personal stories beside the plot about them fighting the monster.