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    Looking for recommendations for books with unconventional structure that aren't quite experimental fiction. Some of my favorites are:

    -Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, which is interspersed with illustrations from the author and random tangents explaining aspects of humanity as if an alien were reading.

    -The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka, which is a story told in short sentences, fragments, and lists.

    -This is How You Lose the Time War, a book of love letters written back and forth between two women on opposite sides of a time traveling war.

    -House of Leaves. I know this one definitely fits into the experimental category, but I enjoyed the complexity of it.

    -Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, which doesn't necessarily have much of a plot but details a list of strange and fascinating cities the narrator has visited.

    Ultimately what I'm looking for is books where the plot is kind of secondary to the unique nature of narration, something that's a unique pleasure to read.

    by Tetris-Rat

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