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The Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper is an American novel presented as diary entries detailing the deteriorating mental state of a young...

American 19TH Century Gothic Feminist

9.3 Excellent

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Augustus

"Augustus" is a 1972 historical novel by American author John Williams that won the National Book Award for Fiction. The...

American Historical Ancient Rome Letters

9.2 Excellent

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Herzog

Herzog, a 20th-century American novel by Saul Bellow, presents a profound exploration of identity and disillusionment. T...

Classic American 20TH Century Literary

8.9 Great

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Lincoln in the Bardo

Lincoln in the Bardo is a 21st-century novel employing an epistolary format. It presents a unique interpretation of Abra...

American 21ST Century Historical Literary

8.8 Great

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a 2007 semi-autobiographical novel by Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur...

American 21ST Century Native American Diary

8.7 Great

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A Visit from the Goon Squad

A Visit from the Goon Squad is a 2010 novel by Jennifer Egan that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2011. Structured...

Music American 21ST Century Literary

8.7 Great

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So Long a Letter

So Long a Letter is a 20th-century novel told entirely through letters. Senegalese author Mariama Bâ crafts a poignant s...

Classic 20TH Century Feminist Senegalese

8.5 Great

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March

March presents a poignant account of the American Civil War through a series of letters. The novel details the experienc...

American Historical 2000S Civil War

8.5 Great

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is an epistolary novel written by English author Anne Brontë and published in 1848 under the...

19TH Century Gothic English Feminist

8.4 Great

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In the Lake of the Woods

In the Lake of the Woods is a 1994 novel by American author Tim O'Brien that combines elements of mystery, psychological...

American Mystery 20TH Century Vietnam

8.4 Great

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The Book of Daniel

The Book of Daniel is a 1971 historical novel by the American author E. L. Doctorow. The narrative is presented through...

American Historical Political Documents

8.4 Great

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Wieland

Wieland is an 1798 American Gothic novel by Charles Brockden Brown, written in an epistolary format from the perspective...

18TH Century American Gothic Letters

8.3 Great

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Fair and Tender Ladies

Lee Smith’s *Fair and Tender Ladies* presents a poignant story through a collection of letters. The novel explores the e...

American Appalachian 20TH Century Literary

8.2 Great

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Wieland; or, The Transformation

'Wieland; or, The Transformation' is an epistolary Gothic novel written by American author Charles Brockden Brown, first...

American Gothic Letters Eighteenth Century

8.2 Great

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The Final Revival of Opal & Nev

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev is the debut novel by American author Dawnie Walton, published in 2021 by 37 INK/Simon &...

Music American Literary Oral History

8.1 Great

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The Penelopiad

The Penelopiad is a 2005 novella by Canadian author Margaret Atwood that offers a feminist retelling of Homer's Odyssey....

Mythology Literary Feminist Retelling

8.1 Great

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The Tenant of Moonbloom

"The Tenant of Moonbloom" is a 1963 novel written by the American author Edward Lewis Wallant. The narrative centers on...

American Urban Literary Letters

8.1 Great

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The Lost Scrapbook

The Lost Scrapbook is Evan Dara's 1995 American debut, a polyphonic experimental novel about a Missouri community poison...

American Experimental Postmodern Documents

8.1 Great

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The Confessions of Max Tivoli

The Confessions of Max Tivoli is Andrew Sean Greer's 2004 novel about a San Francisco man born old and aging backward, f...

Fantasy American Manuscript Historical

7.6 Good

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Caesar's Column

*Caesar's Column* is a 1890 dystopian epistolary novel by American author Ignatius Donnelly, notable for its vivid portr...

American Manuscript 19TH Century SF

6.2 Fair