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Before the computer, many people didn't have phones and if they did, long distance phone calls was very expensive, so people wrote letters to each other whether work related or social. Here is a list of books of letters.
P.S. Diary entries count as letters. They are letters to ones self.
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202 books · 79 voters · list created March 23rd, 2012 by Effy (votes) .
Tags: letters, lists
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Effy 1047 books
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Susanna - Censored by GoodReads 3388 books
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Sami Jo 412 books
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Julie 213 books
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Marissa 443 books
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Christy 372 books
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Janet 0 books
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message 1: by P.J. (new)

P.J. Sullivan "84, Charing Cross Road" is listed in two places: numbers 2 and 31. These should be combined.


Susanna - Censored by GoodReads That should be corrected now.


message 3: by Simant (new)

Simant Verma Letters from Skye should be added also


message 4: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Feb 20, 2017 01:11AM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) Simant wrote: "Letters from Skye should be added also"

It's easy to add a title: Click on 'Add Books To This List' at the top of the list and type (part of) the title in the 'search my books' window, if it is a book on one of your shelves. Then click 'Vote For This Book'. If it isn't a book on your own shelves, go to 'Search' first ('Add books from: My Books or a Search') before you type (part of) the title.


message 5: by rem (new)

rem so basically this is just a list of diaries not letters.

sure, diaries are letters to one's self, but with there already being lists collecting diaries, what is the point of having another collection of diaries under the name "letters", especially since there are almost no collections of letters on this list and it includes novels in letters, which is absolutely besides the point since it is not memoir or letters.


message 6: by Alex (new)

Alex I just added three books, then realized they're all fiction. Is this a strictly non-fiction list? City of Girls, Gilead, and The Screwtape Letters are all fiction, but letters nonetheless. LMK.


message 7: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Sep 06, 2020 12:11AM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) @Alex
I added both fiction and non-fiction... The description doesn't specificallly say 'non-fiction' (although I have to agree it implies it).


message 8: by Alex (new)

Alex Thank you!


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