Looking for books that experiment with language and words, to see what effects it has to use language in a specific way.
Examples of this would be the book Ella Minnow Pea (slowly cutting out letters of the alphabet throughout the book) or Eunoia (only using one vowel per chapter).
Another example in the same vein, but a different aspect of language would br the short story ‘Story Of Your Life’ by Ted Chiang, which plays with language (particularly verb tenses) to show the non-linear nature of the story.
Poetry suggestions are also welcome.
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Look into the Oulipo movement in France, which does just that!
In particular, Exercises in styles by Raymond Queneau, which tells the same short story in 99 ways.
Or A void (La disparition) by Georges Perec, written without the letter e, the most commonly used letter in French. Amusingly translators have taken the challenge on board and most translations create an equivalent difficulty: in English the translation also excludes e, as well as some words that Perec wouldn’t have been able to use in French due to their spelling. A masterpiece of virtuosity.