Epistolary Fiction

Told in letters, and in what the letters avoid. Novels assembled from documents — correspondence, diaries, transcripts — where the gaps carry as much as the text.

On the The Literary Shelf shelf.

Books shelved as Epistolary Fiction

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower — Stephen Chbosky
• Carrie — Stephen King
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society — Mary Ann Shaffer
• Dracula — Bram Stoker
• The Color Purple — Alice Walker
• Illuminae — Jay Kristoff
• This Is How You Lose the Time War — Amal El-Mohtar

Related genres

• Literary Fiction
• Classics
• Psychological Fiction
• Contemporary Fiction
• Short Fiction
• Magical Realism
• Philosophical Fiction
• Experimental & Avant-Garde
• Cult Fiction
• Anthology
• Metafiction
• Surrealism
• Existential
• Postmodern
• Modernist
• Symbolist
• Hopeful Fiction

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