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 had a book of short stories long ago and each story was told from the points of view of both characters in each story. It was very human and was a bit of a life lesson on how the same events are viewed differently by others. I can’t possibly recall the title. Sorry.
Epistlatory novels are not rare but a favorite of mine is Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith. The twist here is that the protagonist is an uneducated girl who writes poorly, spells badly, but expresses real emotion and life and then she begins to learn how to write, spell, use proper grammar, and that’s despite her very hard life. I really enjoyed this one a lot.