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100 Must-Read Epistolary Novels From the Past and Present

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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Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
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Pamela
Pamela
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Letters of a Peruvian Woman (Francoise De Graffigny)
Letters of a Peruvian Woman (Francoise De Graffigny)
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Julie, or the New Heloise
Julie, or the New Heloise
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Tobias Smollett)
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Tobias Smollett)
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Evelina
Evelina
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Choderlos De Laclos)
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Choderlos De Laclos)
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Aline and Valcour (Marquis De Sade)
Aline and Valcour (Marquis De Sade)
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Hyperion
Hyperion
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Sorrows of Young Werther
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The Wild Irish Girl (Sydney Owenson)
The Wild Irish Girl (Sydney Owenson)
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Persuasion (Jane Austen)
Persuasion (Jane Austen)
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Letters of Two Brides (Aka Memoirs of Two Young Married Women) (Balzac)
Letters of Two Brides (Aka Memoirs of Two Young Married Women) (Balzac)
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Poor Folk and Other Stories (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Poor Folk and Other Stories (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë)
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The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
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Lady Susan (Jane Austen)
Lady Susan (Jane Austen)
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Dracula
Dracula
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The American Diary of a Japanese Girl (Yone Noguchi)
The American Diary of a Japanese Girl (Yone Noguchi)
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The Kempton-Wace Letters (Jack London)
The Kempton-Wace Letters (Jack London)
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Daddy Long Legs
Daddy Long Legs
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You Know Me Al (RING LARDNER)
You Know Me Al (RING LARDNER)
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Givi Shaduri (Mikheil Javakhishvili)
Givi Shaduri (Mikheil Javakhishvili)
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Farthing Hall (Hugh Walpole and J.B. Priestley)
Farthing Hall (Hugh Walpole and J.B. Priestley)
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The Documents in the Case (Dorothy L. Sayers)
The Documents in the Case (Dorothy L. Sayers)
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Anne of Windy Poplars
Anne of Windy Poplars
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Screwtape Letters
Screwtape Letters
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I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith)
I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith)
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Houseboy (Ferdinand Oyono)
Houseboy (Ferdinand Oyono)
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The Key (Junchero Tanizaki)
The Key (Junchero Tanizaki)
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Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon
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Up the Down Staircase (Bel Kaufman)
Up the Down Staircase (Bel Kaufman)
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Harriet the Spy (Louise Fitzhugh)
Harriet the Spy (Louise Fitzhugh)
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Herzog
Herzog
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Silence
Silence
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84, Charing Cross Road
84, Charing Cross Road
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Go Ask Alice
Go Ask Alice
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Carrie
Carrie
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A Woman of Independant Means (Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey)
A Woman of Independant Means (Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey)
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So Long a Letter (Mariama Bâ, Trans. Modupé Bodé-Thomas)
So Long a Letter (Mariama Bâ, Trans. Modupé Bodé-Thomas)
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