So I'm in the process of writing a sort of coming of age,

>>8271766
>coming of age, college buddy road trip

Sounds derivitive already.

>>8271768
*derivative
Also, fuck off, it's nearly impossible to be original anymore. Anything that's worth making has been made at least once before. What's interesting is different people's takes on different topics and themes. A single story can be told a million different ways, which is why literature is so incredible.

So all in all, 10/10 bait would get mildly annoyed again

As I Lay Dying is the obvious one

>>8271766
The Waves

a lot of Dan Simmons' works are either multiple POV, or guilty of head-hopping, depending on which you prefer.

like in his "Ilium", any chapter written from a first person perspective was about Hockenberry.

>>8271766

Third person limited omniscient multiple POVs has ruled fantasy for the last 20ish years. So any of the particularly good series there, like ASOIAF as you say.

Structurally, I think Brandon Sanderson's "The Stormlight Archive" (The Way of Kings + Words of Radiance) are doing the most interesting thing with that format these days - to combat scope creep and sprawl that ends up in those sort of narratives, he set a hard limit on only using 10 specific characters as POVs for the series (so far he's only used like 4 of them, but there are plenty of books to come in the series), and each book has an "interlude" section where he writes one-off short stories set in the same world, to get the urge to worldbuild/showcase different characters/etc out. Keeps the narrative focused while allowing him to enjoy the benefits of having loads of POVs.