Please suggest a book that’s formatted in a way that’s outside of the box. No restrictions on genre or length or even age range! I’m very curious to see what you guys say
*Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry* by Leanne Shapton (structured like an auction catalog)
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Daisy Jones and the Six is I believe completely in interview format. I really enjoyed the audiobook because of that.
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Oh, I was thinking more along the lines of Stephen King’s period of experimentation, where he released The Green Mile in something like monthly installments (like Dickens), or when he wrote Dolores Claiborne and it had no chapter breaks, so was nearly impossible to put down.
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Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
BirdieRoo628 on
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
S by JJ Abrams
Sassyfras3000 on
We Used to Live Here
littlemissmeggie on
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
mystrile1 on
Iirc Cujo is straight text. No chapter breaks or anything. Also that Illuminae series is very mixed media.
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A Visit From the Good Squad by Jennifer Egan.
The entire book isn’t uniquely formatted, but portions towards the end are and the whole base level idea of the book is about time and what is lost to time, so I think even the order it is presented in is a bit unique. Not your average jumping back and forth from present day to past events either.
MountainLine on
Autobiography of Red
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Cloud Cuckoo Land has five characters over 3 timelines and you don’t really see how they are connected until the end
Plenty_Fix1943 on
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness. They can see each others thoughts and the formatting shows how chaotic it can be.
AdValuable7835 on
pale fire and infinite jest
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The Lifespan of a Fact
Jules_Chaplin on
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
MoKnowsNothing322 on
Meg Cabot’s Boy series (first one is Every Boy’s Got One I believe) is written in a usual format. Emails, text chains, etc. Different format AND funny!
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The Twyford Code by Hallett
earbox on
*Bottom’s Dream* by Arno Schmidt.
peachneuman on
Dear Mothman
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Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
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Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke
graipape on
The Mobius Book by Catherine Lacey
jenigmatic_42 on
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
hulahulagirl on
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara – format is a guy in prison gives his friend his memoir and that guy adds a bunch of footnotes expanding on the memoir with his own thoughts and knowledge. I’m only 65% through it, but it’s different that way.
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House of Leaves
Any book by Ellen Hopkins
*Ella Minnow Pea* by Mark Dunn (typographically)
*Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry* by Leanne Shapton (structured like an auction catalog)
Daisy Jones and the Six is I believe completely in interview format. I really enjoyed the audiobook because of that.
Oh, I was thinking more along the lines of Stephen King’s period of experimentation, where he released The Green Mile in something like monthly installments (like Dickens), or when he wrote Dolores Claiborne and it had no chapter breaks, so was nearly impossible to put down.
Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
S by JJ Abrams
We Used to Live Here
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Iirc Cujo is straight text. No chapter breaks or anything. Also that Illuminae series is very mixed media.
A Visit From the Good Squad by Jennifer Egan.
The entire book isn’t uniquely formatted, but portions towards the end are and the whole base level idea of the book is about time and what is lost to time, so I think even the order it is presented in is a bit unique. Not your average jumping back and forth from present day to past events either.
Autobiography of Red
Cloud Cuckoo Land has five characters over 3 timelines and you don’t really see how they are connected until the end
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness. They can see each others thoughts and the formatting shows how chaotic it can be.
pale fire and infinite jest
The Lifespan of a Fact
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Meg Cabot’s Boy series (first one is Every Boy’s Got One I believe) is written in a usual format. Emails, text chains, etc. Different format AND funny!
The Twyford Code by Hallett
*Bottom’s Dream* by Arno Schmidt.
Dear Mothman
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke
The Mobius Book by Catherine Lacey
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara – format is a guy in prison gives his friend his memoir and that guy adds a bunch of footnotes expanding on the memoir with his own thoughts and knowledge. I’m only 65% through it, but it’s different that way.
Just read When We Ride by Rex Ogle. One sitting.
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov