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Illuminae. It's an epistolary novel, so it's narrated in the standard sense. They are often told via letters from protaganists to another chatlogs, or other documents. From wikipedia about Illuminae:
(I did not quote it in full because I'm trying to keep it as spoiler free as possible. I remember having a lot of fun when I read it without knowing anything, I just picked it up from the library and started reading.)
This book definitely wins for uniqueness of form, although I now understand what type of book it is and how to find more like that. But I've only ever read one book like that.
Although House of Leaves also counts a little bit as epistolary fiction but we've all heard of House of Leaves so that one doesn't count.
Though, 17776 - wikipedia, is even more unique and also epistolary speculative fiction, but that's not a book, but is instead online articles (which means it can include videos!).
You can start reading that one, right now, here: https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football