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Listopia > and our prophecy has come true's votes on the list Nontraditional Formats (18 Books)
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House of Leaves
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"Typographic horror"
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theMystery.doc
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"It's just... weird"
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Life: A User's Manual
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"Storyline has basis on moves on a chessboard"
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A Void
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"It has this strange reputation of not using a single word containing the letter "e", as can be deciphered by the cover here I guess"
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The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
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"Pioneering work of the cut-up technique"
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Hopscotch
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"Also uses cut-up; chapters can be read in mixed order"
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The Unfortunates
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"Another chapter mix-up, a largely forgotten work; first and last chapters are set, everything in between can be read in any order, giving the reader "15.5 septillion possible combinations"; book in a box"
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Composition No. 1
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"*Box No.1"
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Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife
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"Uses mirror writing; pioneer work"
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The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
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"Seems like an underrated author among the experimentalists; this one adopts a "scrapbook" frame, allegedly"
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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
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"Famous work of metafiction in which the reader is a character; you don't finish the book, the book finishes you instead"
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Multiple Choice
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"This one's pretty obvious; this is my first time hearing of it after a quick search"
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S.
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"Very intriguing format"
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Tree of Codes
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"The Street of Crocodiles, butchered up... quite literally; like A Humument, Radi Os etc.. but more modern"
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Parabola
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"title, really; maybe takes place on a parabola?"
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The Raw Shark Texts
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"Lots of funky textual madness"
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The People of Paper
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"Meta; unique layout"
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Dictionary of the Khazars
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"Lexicon novel"
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