Since I'm watching it at the moment, it's not a book but the graphic novel Watchmen does pretty good with non-linear narrative. Faulkner, too, to some extent and depending on how much you can stand of him. Also the Wild Cards series do some good as a braided novel, although most of them are linear.
Right now I'm sort of sketching an outline for a non-linear Nanonovel, and what I'm doing is grouping them by themes and bookending them with parts of one day in the present. The rest deals with the past, and I'm grouping them by [learning language to speak the first time; learning a foreign language; learning how to behave socially], a short transition piece, [fighting a war; fighting a war; almost dying in a war], short transition piece, etc. I don't know how well it's going to turn out but that was the first thing I thought of?
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Date: 2009-10-17 06:57 pm (UTC)Right now I'm sort of sketching an outline for a non-linear Nanonovel, and what I'm doing is grouping them by themes and bookending them with parts of one day in the present. The rest deals with the past, and I'm grouping them by [learning language to speak the first time; learning a foreign language; learning how to behave socially], a short transition piece, [fighting a war; fighting a war; almost dying in a war], short transition piece, etc. I don't know how well it's going to turn out but that was the first thing I thought of?
Hope this helps!