the art of racing in the rain by garth stein my mom had me read it when i was like 15 and i liked it

Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan

not really about it but it uses it as a narrative framing device: Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. It’s an alternative history of the world premised on the Black Death killing every euro. Buddhist reincarnation reintroduces familiar characters in vignettes of every subsequent era.