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 don’t know if it really worked for me, and I wouldn’t say that I was blown away by this book, but a recent novel that used a narrative device that I really thought about is
Trust by Hernan Diaz.
edit: also, if you also read this book and have any thoughts/feelings, I’d love to hear them. None of my friends have read it so I haven’t had anyone to discuss with!
Exactly like you, I wasn’t blown away by this book, but was definitely thinking about the premise. I feel like this was just the beginning somehow and that it could really go somewhere!