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.
I enjoyed the very conversational, rambling style of Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King. Yes it’s just first person, but it’s a unique take on first person.
Another interesting style was Soldier of the Mist by Gene Wolfe. The narrator is a Greek or Roman soldier who had a severe traumatic brain injury and has anterograde amnesia, so every evening he writes down what has happened to him on a scroll and reads it back the next morning. Only sometimes the strolls get lost, or he isn’t able to write for a few days, and so there’s a lot of confusion and disjointedness. Throw in visions of gods and other supernatural elements, and it comes out to be quite an interesting read. At least, that’s what I remember from having read it many, many years ago.