Daphne du Maurier’s My Cousin Rachel begins & ends with the line “They used to hang men at Four Turnings in the old days. Not any more, though”.
Not what the OP is asking for. The Colonel is only the second generation of the Buendia family in Macondo; the book ends with the story of Aureliano Babilonia in the sixth generation.
Stephen King; * The Dead Zone*
It makes a good planetarium show, too. I’ve seen two different versions.
For anyone scratching their head over the spoiler . . . [do not read the spoilers if you intend to read the story - the story is much better without spoilers]
The AI tasked with finding out how to reverse entropy is the last thing left in the fading universe. When it finds the answer, there is no one left to read it out to, so to complete its programming, it answers by demonstration, saying “Let there be light!” as it creates a new universe.
The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold is, IMO, the ultimate infinite loop story.
The Haunting of Hill House opens and closes with the same (very similar?) lines. There’s no loop; it’s more of an indicator that the house itself remains apart from the events of the novella.
There is a nonfiction book that’s sort of like this. It’s Anne R. Dick’s The Search for Philip K. Dick. It’s a biography of Dick by his third wife. It starts with her meeting Dick for the first time. It then continues with the rest of his life. She then says that she wanted to find out what his life was like before he met her, so it goes back to her birth. It ends with him meeting her for the first time.
“A small dusty man in a small dusty room.” Alistair MacLean’s The Dark Crusader.
Fantasy work by E.R. Eddison from the 1920s: The Worm Ouroboros. Ouroboros is the worm (or dragon) that eats its own tail, and the book ends where it began with the arrival of the delegation from Witchland. WHen I first read it, that came as a complete surprise (although it probably shouldn’t have, given the title of the book. With apologies, I don’t see how one can avoid the spoiler-problem here: if you mention the work outside the spoiler tags. If you don’t mention the work, how will anyone know what’s in the spoiler tags?
I’ve taken the liberty of editing the title of the thread.
“Knock” by Frederick Brown comes full circle to the beginning, though there is a line before it.
There was a story I read years ago with a title something like “A Million Monkeys” which posits a computer spouting random letters and eventually hitting on a literary work, which begins with the first sentence of the story.
“Walking on Glass” by Iain Banks.
The way I interpreted it was that the computer at the end was
YHWH, the God of the Bible, meaning that the Bible is effectively the sequel to the story.
That’s true, but, because it had reversed entropy, that means that its effect preceded its cause. With that logic, it makes the most sense that
the computer was the First Cause that brought the universe itself into being. The Bible is both a sequel and a prequel.
Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” The album is circular, when you listen to it from beginning to end.
‘Kamchatka’ - a novel by Marcelo Figueras (made into a film of the same name as well.)