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I don't know any full length books written in 2nd person. But it's not necessarily only for kids.

I have a Mini- mystery book written in 2nd person, where the deduction and observation skills required to figure out whodunit at the end, is waaay too much to ask of any child. Well, at least any normal child.

So its safe to say that not only choose your own adventure books have it, but rather any book that requires "interaction" on the readers part, can be done in 2nd person.

For me, 1st person just does NOT cut it as placing me into the narrator's shoes. It usually just makes me feel like I'm reading someone's mind and they have an over active imagination (a la JD of Scrubs) or I'm just reading their diary. I never feel like its me doing those things.

2nd person does that. They literally force YOU to think of YOU doing the actions and in that situation. Which is why it can also work of mystery novels and crime solving books where YOU are the detective. That way there isn't a sense of knowing anything about the character that you personally wouldn't have access to.

Normally in mystery books, it's written in such a way that the reader is given chance to solve it before the detectives do. I'm not entirely in to that. I prefer to go on the ride with them.