I’ve been reading lots of mainstream literary (ish) fiction the past few years. Stuff like The Nightingale, All the Light We Cannot See, Underground Railroad, Where the Crawdads Sing, etc. I’m looking for something to ‘break the mold’ a little bit, something exciting, fresh, bizarre, and unorthodox. An alternative to a standard book.
Basically, I’m looking for books whose format, structure, and/or writing techniques defy the norms of a normal story arc expressed in the standard sentences and paragraphs of exposition and dialogue, arranged in chapters.
For what little I know about these types of books, here are some *examples* of what I mean, to help illustrate the question:
* **Format**: told as a series of letters: ‘Epistolary’ novels
* **Structure**: a crazy web of seemingly impossible to relate sub-stories, that end up being related (>!Cloud Cuckoo Land!<)
* **Techniques**: Fight Club, Slaughterhouse Five, etc.
by ezeeetm
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I haven’t read it, but I’ve heard that House of Leaves has lots of weird formatting and such.