swap_horiz The Twyford Code Alternatives

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Riddley Walker

*Riddley Walker* is a 1980 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Russell Hoban, written as a first-person chronicle...

20TH Century Experimental Dystopian British

8.6 Great

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The Screwtape Letters

C. S. Lewis's 1942 satirical epistolary novel consists of a senior demon instructing his nephew on how to corrupt a huma...

20TH Century British Satirical Christian

8.5 Great

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The Book of Ebenezer Le Page

The Book of Ebenezer Le Page is an unusual British novel presented as a series of letters and documents detailing the li...

British 1980S Literary Island

8.5 Great

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The Moonstone

Wilkie Collins's 1868 novel is a pioneering work of detective fiction that utilizes a series of letters and journal entr...

19TH Century Detective Mystery English

8.4 Great

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I Capture the Castle

Dodie Smith's 1948 coming-of-age novel is written as a series of journal entries by a teenage girl living in a crumbling...

20TH Century Romance Coming Of Age British

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 blends a missing-person mystery with chap...

American Mystery 20TH Century Vietnam

8.4 Great

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Any Human Heart

Any Human Heart is a British novel presented entirely through letters and journal entries. It chronicles the intertwined...

British 2000S Literary Journals

8.4 Great

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When You Reach Me

When You Reach Me is an epistolary novel told through a series of letters and notes exchanged between seventeen-year-old...

Time Travel Mystery Notes Ya

8.4 Great

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

This 2003 British novel by Mark Haddon is written as the first-person diary of a teenage boy with autism investigating t...

Mystery 21ST Century British Diary

8.3 Great

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The Diary of a Provincial Lady

The Diary of a Provincial Lady is an epistolary novel by E.M. Delafield offering a sharp satirical look at British socie...

Comedy British 1930S Diary

8.2 Great

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Diary of a Nobody

Written by George and Weedon Grossmith, this 1892 Victorian comic novel details the mundane daily life of a middle-class...

19TH Century Satire Comedy British

8.1 Great

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An Instance of the Fingerpost

Iain Pears’ An Instance of the Fingerpost is a British historical mystery told through a complex series of letters excha...

Mystery Historical British 1990S

8.1 Great

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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾

Sue Townsend's 1982 comedic diary novel chronicles the everyday struggles and intellectual pretensions of a British teen...

20TH Century Comedy Teenage British

7.9 Good

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Armadale

Wilkie Collins's 1866 novel Armadale is notable for its complex plot and mixed format, utilizing diary entries and lette...

19TH Century Mystery Victorian English

7.9 Good

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The Queen of the Tambourine

The Queen of the Tambourine is a 1991 novel by English author Jane Gardam, notable for its fragmented epistolary format...

Comic 20TH Century British Literary

7.7 Good

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The Debt to Pleasure

The Debt to Pleasure is a 1996 epistolary novel by John Lanchester, structured as a menu-based memoir by an erudite, unr...

Journal Food Crime British

7.7 Good

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The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

Published in 1984 by British author Sue Townsend, The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole continues the comedic diary entries o...

20TH Century Comedy Teenage British

7.5 Good

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Elizabeth and Her German Garden

Elizabeth von Arnim's 1898 novel Elizabeth and Her German Garden uses a semi-autobiographical diary format to detail a w...

Nature 19TH Century British Domestic

7.5 Good

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The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels

The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels is a 2023 epistolary crime novel by British author Janice Hallett, told entir...

Mystery British 2020S Documents

7.3 Good

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The Examiner

The Examiner is a 2024 epistolary thriller by Janice Hallett, notable for its multi-media narrative format that construc...

Mystery British 2020S Messages

7.0 Good