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Epistolary Books

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1

by Wilkie Collins

10,826 members

251 reviews

4

11 Members: thorold, roby72, cbl_tn, souloftherose, thecoroner, alex68, electrice, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, Sissalou

2

by Mary Shelley

42,798 members

714 reviews

3.8

9 Members: roby72, cbl_tn, souloftherose, thecoroner, alex68, Tess_W, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

3

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

23,310 members

323 reviews

½ 3.6

9 Members: roby72, cbl_tn, thecoroner, alex68, Tess_W, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, Sissalou

4

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

12,867 members

338 reviews

4.1

9 Members: roby72, cbl_tn, souloftherose, thecoroner, alex68, Tess_W, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Sissalou

5

1,968 members

100 reviews

½ 3.6

9 Members: AnnaClaire, aulsmith, cbl_tn, souloftherose, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Rusty37, ManWithAnAgenda, Sissalou

6

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

6,500 members

87 reviews

4.1

7 Members: thorold, roby72, thecoroner, Dilara86, alex68, Tess_W, kara.shamy

7

35,570 members

629 reviews

4

6 Members: cbl_tn, souloftherose, Tess_W, raperper, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

8

12,980 members

289 reviews

4

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

9

84, Charing Cross Road

by Helene Hanff

5,871 members

349 reviews

4.2

6 Members: roby72, cbl_tn, souloftherose, thecoroner, Tess_W, ahef1963

10

Daddy-Long-Legs

by Jean Webster

3,357 members

110 reviews

4.1

6 Members: inge87, roby72, cbl_tn, souloftherose, ahef1963, Rusty37

11

Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded

by Samuel Richardson

2,565 members

43 reviews

2.9

6 Members: inge87, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

19,790 members

339 reviews

4.1

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer

19,456 members

1,248 reviews

4.2

5 Members: cbl_tn, souloftherose, Tess_W, ahef1963, Rusty37

14

The White Tiger

by Aravind Adiga

9,622 members

423 reviews

3.8

5 Members: thorold, roby72, electrice, ahef1963, kara.shamy

15

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

7,541 members

169 reviews

3.9

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, Tess_W, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

16

Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady

by Samuel Richardson

1,513 members

29 reviews

½ 3.5

5 Members: roby72, souloftherose, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

17

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories of the Supernatural

by Robert Louis Stevenson

607 members

3 reviews

3.8

5 Members: thecoroner, alex68, Tess_W, ahef1963, kara.shamy

18

The Diary of a Young Girl

28,430 members

515 reviews

4.1

4 Members: dara85, thecoroner, alex68, Tess_W

19

The Screwtape Letters

7,907 members

89 reviews

4.1

4 Members: cbl_tn, souloftherose, Tess_W, ahef1963

20

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

by Stephen Chbosky

20,803 members

752 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

21

The Sorrows of Young Werther

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

8,081 members

127 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

22

5,209 members

61 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

23

Ella Minnow Pea

3,965 members

259 reviews

3.9

3 Members: cbl_tn, souloftherose, Sissalou
Explanations: Sissalou: This is an incredibly clever and entertaining book.

24

Letters From Father Christmas

by J. R. R. Tolkien

2,987 members

64 reviews

4.2

3 Members: aulsmith, souloftherose, ahef1963

25

by Frances Burney

2,494 members

39 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thorold, souloftherose, ManWithAnAgenda

26

The Documents in the Case

by Dorothy L. Sayers

1,568 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aulsmith, souloftherose, ahef1963

27

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

1,178 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

28

Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis

556 members

5 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

29

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

36,792 members

456 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Tess_W, kara.shamy

30

by Elizabeth Kostova

21,503 members

759 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Tess_W, ahef1963

31

by Douglas Coupland

4,933 members

64 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

32

Sorcery and Cecelia, or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot

by Patricia C. Wrede

3,259 members

135 reviews

4.1

2 Members: inge87, souloftherose

33

1,648 members

24 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

34

Up the Down Staircase

1,362 members

40 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

35

Thus Was Adonis Murdered

by Sarah Caudwell

1,094 members

38 reviews

4

2 Members: cbl_tn, souloftherose

36

by Jean Webster

654 members

30 reviews

3.8

2 Members: inge87, souloftherose

37

Heroides [in translation]

by Publius Ovidius Naso

565 members

5 reviews

3.9

2 Members: inge87, thecoroner

38

by Sandra Dallas

494 members

18 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cbl_tn, kara.shamy

39

Julie, or, The New Héloise

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

456 members

7 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

40

A Meeting by the River

by Christopher Isherwood

310 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: thorold, aulsmith

41

Letters of Two Brides

by Honoré de Balzac

233 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

42

Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister

196 members

1 review

3.1

2 Members: roby72, souloftherose

43

by Jostein Gaarder

18,759 members

289 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

44

Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

15,848 members

381 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

45

by Stephen King

14,669 members

290 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

46

Anne of Windy Poplars

by L. M. Montgomery

8,509 members

78 reviews

3.9

Member: souloftherose

47

Dear Mr. Henshaw

by Beverly Cleary

8,044 members

147 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

48

We Need to Talk About Kevin

by Lionel Shriver

7,811 members

396 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

49

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾

by Sue Townsend

3,585 members

65 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

50

3,314 members

87 reviews

3.8

Member: electrice

51

Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo

by Zlata Filipović

2,374 members

25 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

52

Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man

by Fannie Flagg

2,076 members

48 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

53

These Is My Words

by Nancy E. Turner

1,809 members

84 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: dara85

54

by Douglas Coupland

1,559 members

42 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

55

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

by Tobias Smollett

1,538 members

25 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

56

So Long a Letter

1,323 members

44 reviews

3.8

Member: Dilara86

57

Freedom and Necessity

by Steven Brust

1,081 members

19 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

58

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves

by M. T. Anderson

850 members

33 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

59

Letters from Skye

by Jessica Brockmole

814 members

78 reviews

3.8

Member: cbl_tn

60

The Glass of Time

763 members

49 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

61

The Griffin & Sabine Trilogy Boxed Set: Griffin & Sabine/Sabine's Notebook/The Golden Mean

by Nick Bantock

697 members

11 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

62

The Late George Apley

by John P. Marquand

669 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

63

by Friedrich Hölderlin

655 members

5 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: roby72

64

The Adrian Mole Diaries: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ & The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

by Sue Townsend

645 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

65

A Woman of Independent Means

by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

645 members

12 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

66

Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen

583 members

15 reviews

3.9

Member: cbl_tn

67

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [Norton Critical Edition]

by Robert Louis Stevenson

510 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

68

by Nancy E. Turner

452 members

26 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85

69

Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter

by J. Nozipo Maraire

339 members

22 reviews

4.1

Member: cbl_tn

70

Renfield: Slave of Dracula

by Barbara Hambly

328 members

12 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: aulsmith

71

The Anderson Tapes

by Lawrence Sanders

292 members

4 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: roby72

72

The Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun

by Mariana Alcoforado

281 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: roby72

73

Letters to Father : Sister Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633

by Maria Celeste Galilei

267 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: AnnaClaire

74

When You Read This: A Novel

186 members

12 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

75

by Isaac Asimov

131 members

1 review

4.2

Member: aulsmith

76

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society [abridged audiobook]

by Mary Ann Shaffer

123 members

26 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

77

My Dear Charlotte

96 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: souloftherose

78

The Box Children

74 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

79

by Bridget Boland

69 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: inge87

80

A Visit to Highbury: Another View of Emma

by Joan Austen-Leigh

65 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: cbl_tn

81

Journal of Callie Wade

60 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

82

Yours for Eternity: A Love Story on Death Row

by Damien Echols

56 members

6 reviews

3.1

Member: dara85

83

by Samuel Richardson

52 members

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

84

If I were a boy

by Lucy Elliot Keeler

1 member

Member: roby72

85

8,668 members

217 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dara85,ManWithAnAgenda

86

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

by Maria Semple

7,538 members

543 reviews

3.9

87

by Jeanette Winterson

1,271 members

15 reviews

½ 3.6

88

Dear Committee Members

by Julie Schumacher

1,169 members

93 reviews

3.8

89

Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

1,129 members

58 reviews

3.9

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