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 love Flowers for Algernon! It’s so overlooked due to its short-story version being part of middle school curricula, but the expanded novelization is timeless. The transformation of Charlie’s writing made every relationship in the book, no matter how small, more impactful. There’s something unnecessarily tragic of seeing his path from loving his coworkers, realizing their mockery and having his feelings bitter, and then watching it wane into pity.