i looooove books with letter writing as a big feature of the book or maybe even encompasses the entire book, format-wise. I'm fine with any genre besides historical or sci-fi (to anyone who wants to break that rule, yes i have read This is How You Lose the Time War and i loved it) and the letters don't have to be romantic in nature, but i would prefer that because that seems the most common form of stories like this. however if you know any other epistolaries that aren't romance-focused but still very good feel free to rec those as well!
by seekerxr
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Probably gets recommended a lot but Piranesi. I also really liked S, though it is a puzzle book as well as an epistolary.
**84 Charing Cross Road** Not a novel, it is a collection of twenty years of correspondence between a New York writer and a London book seller. Written in the 1970s it was also turned into a movie.
Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher is fun – it’s written as a series of recommendation letters, penned by a jaded college professor, lampooning academic bureaucracy and hierarchy.
Possession by AS Byatt is epistolatory in nature and features two love stories in two different generations. I found it a little hard to get into but once I did I fell in love with it.
Dracula is epistolatory in large parts and a classic for a reason!
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova is a retelling of Dracula and consequently features much letter writing, not all of it romantic. One of my favourite books.
So Long A Letter by Mariama Ba.
Should you by any chance read French, Madame Ba by Eric Orsenna
Not as famous in English as it is in German:
– Daniel Glattauer: Love Virtually