I'm reading Her Body And Other Parties which is a really cool collection of short stories, many of which are experimental. For example the one I'm reading now is told as a series of Law And Order SVU episode summaries. It's so good.
Some other faves include:
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino: a series of prose poems describing abstract cities. The framing device is Marco Polo describing his travels to Genghis Khan.
If On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino: The framing device is you, the reader, attempting to read that very book. However you end up reading a series of first chapters of various books. It's very satirical and delightful.
House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski: This is the classic, of course.
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall: A man with amnesia is hunted by a "conceptual shark". Although lesser known than House of Leaves, I think it executes similar devices in a better way.
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir: It's a sequel and I love Gideon the Ninth but this just takes the weirdness to another level. Told in second person, messes around with genre, timeline, memory, hallucinations, you name it.
I also think the internet has opened up so many avenues for experimental storytelling. Like the SCP wiki, which varies in quality but has produced some amazing stuff. My favorite is SCP 1733. https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1733
Please share ur favorite experimental books or non books!!
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