Tristrum Shandy: A Novel From the Middle of the 18th Century

Tristrum Shandy is considered to be a kind of ahead of its time book in terms of weird experimental forms and literary conventions. It's sort of I think thought of as a proto modernist novel. But I also like how this looks ahead to the way characters are realized in many video games of today where you can like build your own characters. They don't come pre-written for you you draw them for yourself.