Best Diary Letters
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Rose Under Fire is a 2013 young adult epistolary novel by Elizabeth Wein that follows a female pilot's harrowing survival in a World War II concentration camp.
Co-authored by Emma Bull and Steven Brust, Freedom and Necessity is a 1997 historical fantasy novel notable for using letters to explore 19th-century English society.
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is an epistolary historical novel that uses diary entries and written records to chronicle the violent conflicts of the American frontier.
Beverly Cleary's 1983 children's novel explores a young boy's emotional growth following his parents' divorce through his letters to his favorite author and personal diary.
Barbara Kingsolver's 2009 historical novel The Lacuna uses diaries, letters, and clippings to trace a writer's life through 1930s Mexico and postwar America.
Dear Everybody is a 2007 epistolary novel by American author Michael Kimball that pieces together a man's life and suicide through a collection of letters.
Ursula of Ulm is an epistolary novel that constructs its narrative through a series of letters, focusing intimately on the experiences of its titular protagonist.
