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100 Must-Read Epistolary Novels From the Past and Present - Page 2

There is something pleasantly, innocently voyeuristic about reading an epistolary novel. They give you the feeling of stumbling on a box of letters left in an attic, but there are no consequences or hurt feelings if you read them. Actually, the author prefers that you read them. Epistolary novels, books told through diaries or letters, have a way of making you feel even closer to story's characters than the average first-person point-of-view story. You're not in the character's head, but you're reading words that they are writing for the eyes of only one or two other people. You're seeing a version of the story that has been edited by the fictional people living it.
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The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
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The Adrian Mole Diaries (Sue Townsend)
The Adrian Mole Diaries (Sue Townsend)
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Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen (Fay Weldon)
Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen (Fay Weldon)
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The Jolly Postman (Allan Ahlberg)
The Jolly Postman (Allan Ahlberg)
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Juletane (Myriam Warner-Vieyra)
Juletane (Myriam Warner-Vieyra)
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The Facts (Philip Roth)
The Facts (Philip Roth)
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Absolutely Normal Chaos (Sharon Creech)
Absolutely Normal Chaos (Sharon Creech)
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Letters From the Inside (John Marsden)
Letters From the Inside (John Marsden)
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Possession
Possession
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Griffin and Sabine
Griffin and Sabine
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Letters From Rifka (Karen Hesse)
Letters From Rifka (Karen Hesse)
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Microserfs
Microserfs
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Zenzele: A Letter to My Daughter (J. Nozipo Maraire)
Zenzele: A Letter to My Daughter (J. Nozipo Maraire)
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The Pull of the Moon (Elizabeth Berg)
The Pull of the Moon (Elizabeth Berg)
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Going Solo (Hope Keshubi)
Going Solo (Hope Keshubi)
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Jazmin's Notebook (Nikki Grimes)
Jazmin's Notebook (Nikki Grimes)
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Speak
Speak
58
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
59
Feeling Sorry for Celia (Jaclyn Moriarty)
Feeling Sorry for Celia (Jaclyn Moriarty)
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House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
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The Princess Diaries (Meg Cabot)
The Princess Diaries (Meg Cabot)
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Tarzan's Tonsillitis (Alfredo Bryce Echenique)
Tarzan's Tonsillitis (Alfredo Bryce Echenique)
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Ella Minnow Pea (Mark Dunn)
Ella Minnow Pea (Mark Dunn)
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The Year of Secret Assignments (Jaclyn Moriarty)
The Year of Secret Assignments (Jaclyn Moriarty)
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
We Need to Talk About Kevin
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The Egyptologist (Arthur Phillips)
The Egyptologist (Arthur Phillips)
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Love, Rosie (Cecelia Ahern)
Love, Rosie (Cecelia Ahern)
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Ttyl (Lauren Myracle)
Ttyl (Lauren Myracle)
69
Gilead (Marilynne Robinson)
Gilead (Marilynne Robinson)
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The Historian (Elizabeth Kostova)
The Historian (Elizabeth Kostova)
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Upstate (Kalisha Buckhanon)
Upstate (Kalisha Buckhanon)
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World War Z (Max Brooks)
World War Z (Max Brooks)
73
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Sherman Alexie)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Sherman Alexie)
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Book of a Thousand Days
Book of a Thousand Days
75
The White Tiger
The White Tiger
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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Overqualified (Joey Comeau)
Overqualified (Joey Comeau)
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Richard Yates
Richard Yates
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Attachments
Attachments
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Frances & Bernard (Carlene Bauer)
Frances & Bernard (Carlene Bauer)
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