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.

  • jigsaw_london@alien.topB
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    The Book of Dave by Will Self has both the point of view of an increasingly mentally unstable, misogynistic taxi driver in London and the future post-apocalyptic society that has discovered his book of rantings and formed an entire religion out of it. The language is so twisted and internally referential it was hard to understand until you got the rhythm of it. I got halfway through before I realized there was an index that made it way easier to understand