Which books are told in the most interesting / creative/ mind bending ways? How does it add to the book overall?
My all time favourite is Ella Minnow Pea where the book is a series of letters. The characters have to think of more inventive ways to write their letters as an increasing number of letters are outlawed as the book progresses.
Honourable mentions include:
Maribou Stork Nightmares where the narrator is trying to suppress his dark past by allowing himself to slip into hallucinations of a whacky south African safari adventure.
Flowers for Algernon where the narrator becomes more articulate by taking part in a scientific experiment.
Ancillary Justice by Anne Leckie, it’s amazing how something so seemingly simple but kind of revolutionary having a culture with a single gender, and that uses exclusively feminine pronouns is.
The use of typeface, spacing, and page format in the synesthesia sections of Alfred Bester’s Tiger, Tiger, or in the USA The Stars my Destinstion. Also, just doing The Count of Monte Cristo but science fiction and shorter was cool, as was The Burning Man.
Slaughterhouse Five and the back and forth chronology of it. The way it’s written really does the best it can at expressing what it’s like for someone who’s experiences all their time at once (or the experience of someone with terrible ptsd(or both).