Something unlike anything I would usually read. It's written by Archy, a cockroach who writes by jumping on a typewriter from key to key. There are no capital letters (presumably because a cockroach isn't big enough to press the shift key as well as the letter) and also no punctuation. This book is refreshing and charming.

Some extracts I particularly enjoyed:

there is always
something to be thankful
for you would not
think that a cockroach
had much ground
for optimism
but as the fishing season
opens up i grow
more and more
cheerful at the thought
that nobody ever got
the notion of using
cockroaches for bait


if you get gloomy just
take an hour off and sit
and think how
much better this world
is than hell
of course it won t cheer
you up much if
you expect to go there