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.
Two that I can think of:
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. Nominally a book where Marco Polo describes the cities he’s been to to Kublai Khan, the cities are often very abstract and impossible. They are linked together by the chapter titles.
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano. First 100 pages is a series of diary entries (I think), then the next 400 is collected interview answers which touch on the lives of two poets, and then some more diary at the end. Perhaps this reduces it too much, because it’s one book that I’ve read where I feel polyphonic actually applies. You also get the sense of these poets from so many different angles.