Books that ignore the traditional way of telling a story. These books tell their stories in unexpected ways, through letters, transcripts, diaries, documents, text messages, or unconventional layouts.
created by HellsieBells
last updated June, 2026
Zombie
J.R. Angelella
Endling
Maria Reva
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Stuart Turton
The Islanders
Christopher Priest
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe
Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry
Leanne Shapton
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Always Coming Home
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Demolished Man
Alfred Bester
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
Chuck Palahniuk
The Twelve Chairs
Ilya Ilf
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
William S. Burroughs
Life: A User's Manual
Georges Perec
The Tunnel
William H. Gass
Dictionary of the Khazars
Milorad Pavić
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
The Raw Shark Texts
Steven Hall
Filth
Irvine Welsh
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino
Wittgenstein's Mistress
David Markson
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Maria Semple
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell
Cain's Jawbone
E. Powys Mathers
Technically, You Started It
Lana Wood Johnson
Night Film
Marisha Pessl
No One Is Talking About This
Patricia Lockwood
The Employees
Olga Ravn
This is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar
Tomorrow War (Tomorrow War #1)
J.L. Bourne
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