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.
The book Trainspotting uses a lot of local dialect and colloquialisms, varying the POV for chapters which really changed up the language. It works well when you hear the accents in your head and it even includes a dictionary.
I haven’t read it yet, but I’m really intrigued by the narrative in The Country of Ice Cream Star. It’s a post-apocalyptic setting where the language seems very cobbled and evolved phonetically, an arrested development in language because the adults aren’t around to correct them - for example, October is now just Tober.
“Filth”, also by Irvine Welsh, is quite unusual in how the tapeworm occasionally takes over the narrative.