Books written as letters or diaries

[CA4Now]

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, a novel comprised of letters written during WWII in London.

[fromupthere]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, a novel comprised of letters written during WWII in London.

Love love love ^^^^!!!

ETA: Ella Minnow Pea is also written as letters (tee hee!).

[chilaili]

I haven't read this one yet but it's on my amazon wishlist: The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street: Letters Between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952-1973

"A brilliant personality, remarkable novelist and legendary letter writer, it is widely known that Nancy Mitford was also a bookseller. From 1942-6 she worked in Heywood Hill's famous shop in Curzon Street, and effectively ran it when the male staff were called up for war service. After the war she left to live in France but maintained an abiding interest in the shop, its stock, and its many and varied customers who themselves form a cavalcade of the literary stars of post war Britain. Her letters to Heywood advise on recent French titles that might appeal to him and his customers, gossip engagingly about life in Paris, and enquire anxiously about the reception of her own books while seeking advice about new titles to read. In return Heywood kept her up to date with customers and their foibles, and with aspects of literary and bookish life in London. Charming, witty and irresistible the correspondence gives brilliant insights into a world that has almost disappeared."

[Marlow]

Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith is one of my favorits novels and it's all letters.

This is an old thread, by the way, but still an interesting topic.

[Cida]

Here's an unusual one:

The Coquette
By Hannah W. Foster

Oxford University Press: The Coquette: Hannah W. Foster

Fascinating early novel by a woman(!) author published in the 1700s(!) about a flirtatious woman who foolishly allows herself to be seduced.

By the way, books written in the format of letters are called "epistolary novels," in case you want to use that term to search.

[karibear]

Joanna Stratton's Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier. I read a lot of women's fiction and non-fiction for a college class, and just came across this one today on Amazon. There are a lot of them out there. Those who took part in the Westward Expansion (especially those in wagon trains) seemed to be driven to write home about the things they experienced along the way and after they arrived at whatever point they chose.