Books with an exploratory feel where the narrator discovers things about their strange predicament or environment

Project Hail Mary gives me this and I love it but it doesn't need to be sci fi or the whole person regaining consciousness thing, it could be that the world or setting is so strange and weird. Every sentence is interesting because nothing is familiar. Like watching Avatar for the first time. But it could also be regaining conscious and trapped sure. Would love to hear some suggestions, even if not exactly this!