EPISTOLARY FICTION
 
 
 
 
novels in the form of letters, notes, and other correspondence
 
When You Read This

by Mary Adkins

The "d-log" (drawing blog) created by Iris is discovered after her death, bringing her boss and her sister together by grief and loss.
Griffin & Sabine : an Extraordinary Correspondence

by Nick Bantock

A story in letters, but oh, what gorgeous letters!  Each one is a tiny work of art to be savored.  (there are six more novels in this series - all beautiful).
Dracula's Child

by Jonathan Barnes

Jonathan and Mina Harker just want a normal English life with their son Quincey, and to forget their  ... ordeal ... in Transylvania.  But something dark seems to be stirring in their marriage, and on the Continent.
The Lost Manuscript

by Cathy Bonidan

Vacationing at the Beau Rivage Hotel, Anne-Lise idly rummages in the drawers of the bedside table and finds an abandoned manuscript with an address inside.  She writes to the address and unearths a mystery.
Letters From Skye

by Jessica Brockmole

When her mother warns her about the perils of a wartime romance, Margaret doesn't listen.  But then a bomb uncovers a cache of letters, chronicling another wartime romance.
Queenie

by Candice Carty-Williams

A young Jamaican-British woman in London makes a series of questionable decisions in the aftermath of a messy breakup before challenging herself to figure out who she wants to be.
Love Big, Be Well : Letters to a Small-town Church

by Winn Collier


A small-town Presbyterian minister writes letters to his congregation.
Ella Minnow Pea : a Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable

by Mark Dunn

A monument erected to the inventor of the pangram "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is the linchpin to this delightful little book.
 
Wunderland

by Jennifer Cody Epstein

Ava never understood her mother and became estranged from her as an adult.  Then she receives her mother's ashes and a cache of letters and her mother's secret and painful past in brought to light.
The Historian

by Elizabeth Kostova

A young woman finds a cache of old letters, linking her family to Vlad the Impaler.
 
Life on the Refrigerator Door: a Novel in Notes: Notes between a Mother and Daughter

by Alice Kuipers

A busy mother and her teenage daughter communicate mostly through notes left for each other.
 
Dear Mr. Knightley

by Katherine Reay

Samantha is offered a scholarship of sorts.  An anonymous benefactor will pay for graduate school - all she has to do is send him? her? them? regular progress letters.
 
The Divorce Papers

by Susan Rieger

Sophie is not a people person.  When she gets a contentious divorce case, she prefers to communicate to all involved through emails and memos.
 
Blue Flowers

by Carola Saavedra

Divorced and exiled from his home, Marcos begins getting letters at his new apartment from an anonymous and obviously troubled woman who is trying to reach the former tenant.  
Dear Committee Members

by Julie Schumacher

A college professor is stalled in his own writing career, so he writes letters.  Lots of letters.  So.  Many.  Letters.
 
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer

A group of island residents uses the pretense of a book club for regular meetings during their WWII German occupation.
 
We Need to Talk About Kevin

by Lionel Shriver

Estranged parents correspond, trying to understand what factors contributed to the heinous crime committed by their son.
 
Holy Lands

by Amanda Sthers

A Jewish cardiologist goes "off the grid" to raise pigs in Israel, forcing his family to communicate with him through letters.
 
The Lawgiver

by Herman Wouk

The making of an epic Hollywood movie about the life of Moses, told through texts, emails, memos, and more.
 
Meet Me at the Museum
 
by Anne Youngson

A disenchanted farmer's wife and a widowed museum curator begin a correspondence over their mutual fascination with poet Seamus Heaney's "The Tollund Man" and gradually share details from their lives, forging an unexpected bond along the way.
Bonus eBook titles:

Download the Libby app from OverDrive and enjoy books on your Kindle, computer, tablet, or smartphone.  Two titles to consider:
 
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff - a charming classic love story detailing twenty years of correspondence between the New York City author and a London used-book dealer.

Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor is a slim, chilling little novel about two art dealers based in San Francisco.  One returns to his home in Germany at the start of WWII, and their partnership dissolves because of distance ... and political differences.