I’ve created a challenge on storygraph for experimental fiction.
I’m looking for more books written in the style of different genres. For example: one chapter is in the style of a hard boiled detective noir, the next is written like a children’s fairy tale, the next is a summer romance etc.
Like Hyperion, Cloud Atlas, If On a winter’s night a traveller, Exercises in Style etc.
Not books that fit into multiple genres, like a horror romance, or a historical crime drama.
by leebass7
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I feel like I talk about it a lot, but Ulysses. Every chapter reads differently and focuses on a different aspect of the English language. Pretty much all encyclopedic novels will have some variation of literary styles throughout.
You might also be interested in ergodic fiction, which often utilises different fragmented mediums to tell a story. Books like House of Leaves or Pale Fire are good examples.
Also check out I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
Raymond Queneau’s [Exercises in style](https://monoskop.org/images/4/49/Queneau_Raymond_Exercises_in_Style_pp_1-26.pdf) tells the same story 99 times, in 99 different styles (the pdf I link to only has a few examples, to give you a flavour of the book).