Books written in unusual styles - collections of memos, interviews or documents, like "Illuminae," "World War Z" or "Sleeping Giants" - or with unique/unconventional voices - like "Ridley Walker" or "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time." Please feel free to add to the list!
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message 1: by Daren (new)

Daren I added a few that came to mind. Captain Pantoja I read recently, and is written in an usual style where the author writes several conversations simultaneously. Vurt messes with my head - always has, always will, no matter how many times I read it. The Princess Bride, just for the weird plot device where it pretends to be an abridgement of a book that doesn't exist!


message 2: by Cecily (new)

Cecily I've added a book I don't like (as well as some that I do), but I can't unlike it, without removing it from the list! Never mind.


message 3: by Philip (new)

Philip Thanks to you all. To answer questions I've received from a few of you, what I was thinking of here was books with unconventional narrators or narrative styles. "Illuminae" is basically a dossier of hacked documents — emails, schematics, military files, IMs, medical reports, interviews and more, while "The Three" is a collection of newspaper articles, interviews, etc.; "World War Z" and "Sleeping Giants" are told exclusively through interviews; "Motherless Brooklyn," "Curious Incident," and "Room" are narrated respectively by a gangster with Tourettes, an autistic teenager, and a 5-year-old boy. And "Riddley Walker" - well, that's just indescribable: "On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen."

Not familiar with any of the books you've added - a good thing! - so keep them coming as long as they stay within the general theme. Again - many thanks!


message 4: by Daren (new)

Daren Maybe Vurt doesn't fit the list after all... I have taken it off.


message 5: by Philip (new)

Philip Don't know it and my library doesn't have it - but the description sounded interesting, and so I will keep my eye out for it.


message 6: by Kay (last edited Jun 07, 2016 04:10PM) (new)

Kay Not sure all mine fit the criteria, but the styles are all one-of-a-kind, that's for sure. Obviously, I'm very fond of what I call "faux memoirs."


message 7: by Kay (new)

Kay I've read two of the books in Peake's Gormanghast Trilogy (never made it through the third book), but hadn't known about Letters from a Lost Uncle. Sounds very intriguing.


message 8: by Cecily (new)

Cecily Kay wrote: "I've read two of the books in Peake's Gormanghast Trilogy (never made it through the third book), but hadn't known about Letters from a Lost Uncle. Sounds very intriguing."

The third is utterly different from the first two, and I didn't much like it the first time I read it.

Letters from a Lost Uncle is illustrated whimsy for children. Delightful, but unlike Gormenghast.


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