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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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Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady

Samuel Richardson’s *Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady* is an 18th-century English novel presented entirely as l...

18TH Century Classic Tragedy English

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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Nausea

Nausea is a 1938 novel by French author Jean-Paul Sartre presented as a series of letters and journal entries. It explor...

Classic French Existential 1930S

8.9 Great

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Sherman Alexie's 2007 novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian uses journal entries and drawings to depict...

American 21ST Century Native American Diary

8.7 Great

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Persian Letters

Montesquieu’s *Persian Letters* presents a satirical critique of 18th-century France through a series of fabricated lett...

18TH Century Classic French Satire

8.7 Great

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Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence

Created by English artist Nick Bantock in 1991, Griffin and Sabine is a notable epistolary novel distinguished by its ph...

Fantasy 1990S Art Letters

7.9 Good

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Letters from Father Christmas

Published in 1976, this collection gathers the richly illustrated letters J.R.R. Tolkien wrote to his children as Santa...

Fantasy Children Holiday Tolkien

7.7 Good

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Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot

Sorcery and Cecelia is a 1988 fantasy epistolary novel co-written by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer, notable f...

Fantasy 20TH Century Regency Ya

7.6 Good

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Rose Under Fire

Rose Under Fire is a 2013 young adult epistolary novel by Elizabeth Wein that follows a female pilot's harrowing surviva...

War 2010S Diary Ya

7.6 Good

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Sorcery and Cecelia

Co-authored by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer, this 1988 fantasy novel is structured as letters between two co...

Fantasy 20TH Century Young Adult Regency

7.4 Good

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The Fox Woman

The Fox Woman is a 2000 fantasy epistolary novel by American author Kij Johnson, notable for adapting a classic Japanese...

Fantasy Japanese Historical 1990S

7.3 Good

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Freedom and Necessity

Co-authored by Emma Bull and Steven Brust, Freedom and Necessity is a 1997 historical fantasy novel notable for using le...

Fantasy Historical 1990S Diary

7.3 Good

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The Mislaid Magician or Ten Years After

The Mislaid Magician or Ten Years After is a 2006 epistolary fantasy novel co-authored by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline...

Fantasy 2000S Regency Letters

7.3 Good

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The Correspondent

The Correspondent is a contemporary epistolary novel that builds its narrative through written correspondence, exploring...

Contemporary Literary 2020S Letters

7.3 Good

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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is an epistolary historical novel that uses diary entries and written records to chronicle the...

Horror Vampire 2020S Diary

7.2 Good

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The Mislaid Magician

Co-authored by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer in 2006, The Mislaid Magician uses letters between two magicians...

Fantasy 21ST Century Sequel Regency

7.0 Good

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Dear Everybody

Dear Everybody is a 2007 epistolary novel by American author Michael Kimball that pieces together a man's life and suici...

American 2000S Newspaper Diary

6.7 Fair

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The Gryphon

Published in 1993, The Gryphon is an epistolary novel by Nick Bantock that serves as the notable sequel to Griffin and S...

Fantasy 2000S Art Letters

6.6 Fair

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Ursula of Ulm

Ursula of Ulm is an epistolary novel that constructs its narrative through a series of letters, focusing intimately on t...

Fantasy 2020S Occult Diary

5.9 Mediocre