Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die discussion

I love reading books that are journals or letters and I was hoping I could read some books written this way in between monthly reads for this summer. Anyone know of any books on the list that were written as a journal or letters?

My understanding is that Les Liaisons Dangereuses is an epistolary novel.

Julie, or the New Heloise is written as a series of letters. Parts of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall are written as a journal, but not the whole book. Love in Excess is partly written as letters.

Clarissa is written as letters.

The Sorrows of Young Werther is an epistolary novel, maybe the most famous one ever written.

We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver is written as letters. However, fair warning it is heavy.

Dracula

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins is epistolary.

Check out the LibraryThing tagmash of "epistolary" and "1001," which will give you books on the 1001 lists that are written entirely or partially in epistolary/letters/journal style. There are a bunch! (I don't know if they are all accurate, but the LT folks are generally pretty precise about their tagging/shelving, so it's a good place to start.)

Edit: I forgot to add the link!

Candiss wrote: "The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins is epistolary.

Check out the LibraryThing tagmash of "epistolary" and "1001," which will give you books on the 1001 lists that are written entirely or partiall..."

Wow thanks! That's pretty useful.

I believe Dracula, The Color Purple, and The White Tiger are all epistolary.

The group just read Everything is Illuminated not too long ago and there were portions of that book that were humorous (at least I thought so) from a Ukrainian in broken English to the author/protagonist.

Dangling Man is written as a diary.

Possession is partly, Memoirs of Hadrian is entirely.

Frankenstein (diary + letters)

Evelina by Fanny Burney is exclusively told through letters.

Pamela by Richardson was very popular at the time, and initially believed to be a real collection of letters, so when Richardson wrote Clarissa, he wrote in an explanation on how the letters from both Clarissa/Anna and Lovelace/Belford were obtained and collected to be read in whole.