Towards the end of "The Stone Diaries" by Carol Shields is a paragraph that is just a list of books. They reflect what the protagonist, Daisy, read during her life from when she was a little girl at the beginning of the 20th century to when she was an elderly lady at the end of it.
It's quite clever. Some of the non-fiction ones don't actually exist, so I chose close substitutes. But looking at them as a list challenge, you can see when she's a teenager, a college student, a mother, an empty-nester, and finally contemplating her own mortality.
"The Stone Diaries" went on to win a Pulitzer Prize.
