Books with: Novels/Literature told with a non-linear narrative

[Caroline]

I am interested in any novels (any genre, fiction or non-fiction) that are told in a non-linear plot. This could mean told in reverse or through flashbacks or temporal inconsistency. I’m kind of thinking about stories that are told through isolated events that are ordered less chronologically and more for some thematic motivation. However, it doesn’t have to be that specific.

[SamSpayedPI]

The classics:

Slaughterhouse-Five
Catch-22
Something Happened

I just finished The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and loved it!

To Say Nothing of the Dog is a time-travel favorite.

The Lock Artist

[...cats?]

Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Commonwealth
The Shadows
Barracuda
Don't Let Him Know
S.
The God of Small Things
Cloud Atlas
House of Leaves

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Salvation

[M_]

The Clothesline Swing

[Emily]

A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult

[Becky]

In the Night Garden has really interesting structure that starts out kind of linear but then gets much more complicated.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Notes on an Execution

[Zev]

"Seven types of ambiguity" by Elliot Perlman.

[Gillian]

I made a list kind of about this: Past and Present

[Caroline]

Thanks everyone!!

[Anna]

Black Leopard, Red Wolf
The Thirteenth Tale

[Zara]

What about Gravity's Rainbow? It's quite possibly the only novel with a fractal structure.

[Llynnya]

Life After Life

[Kris]

- Seconding Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Pines by Blake Crouch
- Haven't read yet: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino