epistolary novel (161)
Mary Shelley

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Mary Shelley · 1818
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774
Daniel Keyes

Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes · 1959
David Mitchell

Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell · 2004
מונטסקייה

Persian Letters
מונטסקייה · 1721
Wilkie Collins

The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins · 1868
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Julie, or the New Heloise
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1761
Jean Webster

Daddy-Long-Legs
Jean Webster · 1912
Marguerite Yourcenar

Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar · 1951
Alice Walker

The Color Purple
Alice Walker · 1982
William Luther Pierce

The Turner Diaries
William Luther Pierce · 1978
Helen Fielding

Bridget Jones's Diary
Helen Fielding · 1996
C. S. Lewis

The Screwtape Letters
C. S. Lewis · 1942
Samuel Richardson

Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded
Samuel Richardson · 1740
Elizabeth Kostova

The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova · 2005
Friedrich Hölderlin

Hyperion
Friedrich Hölderlin · 1797
Abraham of Worms
The Book of Abramelin
Abraham of Worms
Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne of Windy Poplars
Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1936
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt · 2002
Lionel Shriver

We Need to Talk About Kevin
Lionel Shriver · 2003
Gabriel de Guilleragues

Letters of a Portuguese Nun
Gabriel de Guilleragues · 1669
Anita Loos

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Anita Loos · 1925
Sara Gruen

Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen · 2006
Marquis de Sade

Aline and Valcour
Marquis de Sade · 1793
Sue Townsend

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾
Sue Townsend · 1982
Frances Burney

Evelina
Frances Burney · 1778
Théophile Gautier

Mademoiselle de Maupin
Théophile Gautier · 1835
George Grossmith

The Diary of a Nobody
George Grossmith · 1892
היאלמר סדרברג

Doctor Glas
היאלמר סדרברג · 1905
Mark Twain

Eve's Diary
Mark Twain · 1906
Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler · 1993
Douglas Coupland

Microserfs
Douglas Coupland · 1995
Marilynne Robinson

Gilead
Marilynne Robinson · 2004
Pius II
The Tale of Two Lovers
Pius II · 1444
José Cadalso

Cartas marruecas
José Cadalso · 1789
Ugo Foscolo
The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis
Ugo Foscolo · 1802
Daniel Handler

The Beatrice Letters
Daniel Handler · 2006
Maria Semple

Where'd You Go Bernadette
Maria Semple · 2012
Germaine de Staël

Delphine
Germaine de Staël · 1802
Jean Webster

Dear Enemy
Jean Webster · 1915
Gary Jennings

Aztec
Gary Jennings · 1980
Helen Fielding

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Helen Fielding · 1999
Mary Ann Shaffer

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer · 2008
Tobias Smollett

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Tobias Smollett · 1771
Sally Rooney

Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney · 2021
Françoise de Graffigny
Letters from a Peruvian Woman
Françoise de Graffigny · 1747
Daniel Handler

The Basic Eight
Daniel Handler · 1998
Douglas Coupland

JPod
Douglas Coupland · 2006