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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is an 1886 novella by the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson. Its nested testi...

19TH Century British Gothic Documents

9.4 Excellent

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Memoirs of Hadrian

Memoirs of Hadrian is a classic novel presented as a series of letters written by Roman Emperor Hadrian himself. Notewor...

Classic Historical 1950S Roman

9.1 Excellent

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Herzog

Herzog, a 20th-century American novel by Saul Bellow, presents a profound exploration of identity and disillusionment. T...

Classic American 20TH Century Literary

8.9 Great

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A Tale for the Time Being

A Tale for the Time Being is Ruth Ozeki's 2013 novel that connects a Japanese teenager's diary with a Japanese-American...

Japanese Literary Diary Letters

8.9 Great

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Lincoln in the Bardo

Lincoln in the Bardo is a 21st-century novel employing an epistolary format. It presents a unique interpretation of Abra...

American 21ST Century Historical Literary

8.8 Great

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A Visit from the Goon Squad

A Visit from the Goon Squad is a 2010 novel by Jennifer Egan that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2011. Structured...

Music American 21ST Century Literary

8.7 Great

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The Book of Ebenezer Le Page

The Book of Ebenezer Le Page is an unusual British novel presented as a series of letters and documents detailing the li...

British 1980S Literary Island

8.5 Great

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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong’s *On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous* is an epistolary novel presented as a lengthy letter from a young man to...

Family Literary Queer 2010S

8.4 Great

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Any Human Heart

Any Human Heart is a British novel presented entirely through letters and journal entries. It chronicles the intertwined...

British 2000S Literary Journals

8.4 Great

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The Unfortunates

The Unfortunates is an experimental novel by the British author B. S. Johnson, published in 1969. The book is physically...

Experimental British Literary Boxed

8.4 Great

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The Queen of the Tambourine

"The Queen of the Tambourine" is a 1991 novel by English author Jane Gardam that won the Whitbread Book of the Year awar...

Comic 20TH Century British Literary

7.7 Good

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Z213: Exit

"Z213: Exit" is a fictional narrative work by contemporary Greek author Dimitris Lyacos, originally published in Greek i...

Experimental 2000S Literary Greek

7.4 Good

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Letter to a Child Never Born

Letter to a Child Never Born is a 1975 epistolary novel by Italian author and journalist Oriana Fallaci. The narrative i...

Italian Literary Feminist Letter

7.4 Good

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Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years

Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years is a comic epistolary novel written by British author Sue Townsend, published in 2009....

Comic British 2000S Adult

7.3 Good

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The Trick of It

The Trick of It is a 1989 comic novel by English author Michael Frayn, structured as a series of letters from an academi...

Comic British 1980S Literary

7.2 Good

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Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen

Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen is a 1984 epistolary novel by British writer Fay Weldon. It presents ficti...

20TH Century British Literary Metafiction

7.0 Good

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Eleven

Eleven is a 2006 novel by Welsh author David Llewellyn, published by Seren Press. The book is written entirely as a sequ...

British 2000S Digital Workday

6.4 Fair

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Satan Wants Me

Satan Wants Me is a 1999 novel by British writer Robert Irwin. Written in diary form, it treats occultism and Satanism a...

British Literary Occult Diary

6.2 Fair

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Tarzan's Tonsillitis

Tarzan's Tonsillitis is an epistolary novel by Peruvian writer Alfredo Bryce Echenique. Its narrative is presented throu...

Romance 2000S Literary Peruvian

6.0 Fair

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Who Moved My Blackberry?

Who Moved My Blackberry? is a 2005 comedic epistolary novel by Martin Kihn. Told through emails and other workplace comm...

Satire Workplace British 2000S

5.8 Mediocre