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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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4.46 avg rating — 90 ratings
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3.91 avg rating — 10,453 ratings
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4.28 avg rating — 777,337 ratings
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4.15 avg rating — 2,811 ratings
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4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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3.64 avg rating — 132 ratings
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4.12 avg rating — 79,103 ratings
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4.01 avg rating — 11,864 ratings
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3.93 avg rating — 2,036,776 ratings
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4.13 avg rating — 901 ratings
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4.21 avg rating — 1,320 ratings
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3.78 avg rating — 94,190 ratings
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4.27 avg rating — 557,946 ratings
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4.29 avg rating — 45 ratings
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3.16 avg rating — 4,009 ratings
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4.37 avg rating — 519 ratings
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4.40 avg rating — 251 ratings
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4.47 avg rating — 2,152 ratings
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4.18 avg rating — 445 ratings
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4.29 avg rating — 3,303 ratings
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2.75 avg rating — 14,124 ratings
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4.34 avg rating — 256 ratings
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3.94 avg rating — 14,430 ratings
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4.14 avg rating — 1,547 ratings
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4.13 avg rating — 2,015 ratings
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4.31 avg rating — 62,589 ratings
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4.10 avg rating — 31 ratings
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3.98 avg rating — 42 ratings
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4.54 avg rating — 457 ratings
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4.14 avg rating — 272 ratings
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3.70 avg rating — 23 ratings
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4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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4.33 avg rating — 36 ratings
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4.36 avg rating — 22 ratings
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3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
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3.90 avg rating — 13,923 ratings
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3.25 avg rating — 993 ratings
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4.15 avg rating — 173 ratings
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3.87 avg rating — 136 ratings
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3.96 avg rating — 913 ratings
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3.85 avg rating — 132,183 ratings
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4.12 avg rating — 221 ratings
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4.14 avg rating — 810,978 ratings
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3.70 avg rating — 30 ratings
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4.20 avg rating — 319 ratings
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4.34 avg rating — 6,719 ratings
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3.89 avg rating — 52,197 ratings
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4.34 avg rating — 235 ratings
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3.94 avg rating — 50 ratings
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3.80 avg rating — 626 ratings
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4.36 avg rating — 89 ratings
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4.04 avg rating — 334,165 ratings
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4.35 avg rating — 815 ratings
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4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings
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4.08 avg rating — 72 ratings
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4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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3.81 avg rating — 10,816 ratings
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4.31 avg rating — 641 ratings
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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3.96 avg rating — 381 ratings
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3.95 avg rating — 150 ratings
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3.27 avg rating — 6,202 ratings
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4.31 avg rating — 6,330 ratings
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3.89 avg rating — 195 ratings
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4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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3.73 avg rating — 102 ratings
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4.39 avg rating — 669 ratings
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4.11 avg rating — 38 ratings
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4.06 avg rating — 69 ratings
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4.08 avg rating — 119,289 ratings
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4.24 avg rating — 403 ratings
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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3.97 avg rating — 329 ratings
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3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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3.31 avg rating — 131 ratings
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4.31 avg rating — 384 ratings
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4.29 avg rating — 75 ratings
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4.34 avg rating — 102 ratings
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3.84 avg rating — 7,824 ratings
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3.07 avg rating — 1,008 ratings
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4.09 avg rating — 1,768 ratings
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4.04 avg rating — 759 ratings
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3.92 avg rating — 18,714 ratings
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4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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202 books · 80 voters · list created March 23rd, 2012 by Effy (votes) .
Tags: letters, lists
26 likes · 
Lists are re-scored approximately every 5 minutes.


Effy 1047 books
270 friends
P.J. 695 books
54 friends
Susanna - Censored by GoodReads 3388 books
848 friends
Sami Jo 463 books
643 friends
Julie 213 books
471 friends
Marissa 455 books
170 friends
Christy 417 books
162 friends
Janet 0 books
15 friends

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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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