Epistolary Novels

[Doc Creed]

I am listing some of my favorite epistolary fiction which I'm including under the umbrella of novels that use letters, diaries, and other editorial devices. I'd love to hear your suggestions; perhaps I haven't heard of them.

Frances And Bernard - Carlene Bauer
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Fair And Tender Ladies - Lee Smith
Carrie - Stephen King
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Herzog - Saul Bellow
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

I want to read The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins and another book (difficult to classify) called Steppenwolf. Any suggestions? Thanks.

 

[muskrat]

Ah yes, a fun form indeed, herr Doktor. Try:

Some of Your Blood, Theodore Sturgeon

The U.S.A Trilogy, Dos Passos

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, James Hogg

 

[staropeace]

Jerusalem's Lot by Stephen King.

 

[Doc Creed]

Ah yes, a fun form indeed, herr Doktor. Try:

Some of Your Blood, Theodore Sturgeon

The U.S.A Trilogy, Dos Passos

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, James Hogg

Thanks; all three are new to me. I look forward to researching these tomorrow. Incidentally, is this a form of writing you've tinkered around with? I have tried it only once and the challenge is sustaining the narrative through such a limited construct. It can be done but has its constraints. One has to be very creative. Not as easy as it appears on paper.

 

[muskrat]

Thanks; all three are new to me. I look forward to researching these tomorrow. Incidentally, is this a form of writing you've tinkered around with? I have tried it only once and the challenge is sustaining the narrative through such a limited construct. It can be done but has its constraints. One has to be very creative. Not as easy as it appears on paper.

I've messed around with it, mainly in the form of letters passed back and forth between two characters, along with diary excerpts. It's a interesting way to roll, aye.

 

[champ1966]

Check out S by J J Abrams. Also, the first chapter of Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell is in diary form, my favourite non SK book

 

[Doc Creed]

Check out S by J J Abrams. Also, the first chapter of Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell is in diary form, my favourite non SK book

Thanks, I will.

 

[GNTLGNT]

...hey!...can he say "pist" on an open forum?.......

 

[doowopgirl]

Diary of Ellen Rimbauer. Really, really good.

 

[carrie's younger brother]

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

 

[carrie's younger brother]

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gillman
The Martian by Andy Weir
Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

 

[danie]

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0061458031/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475869710&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=these+is+my+words&dpPl=1&dpID=61jfFlV81yL&ref=plSrch
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 by Nancy Turner. (Recommended to me by skimom2 , so you know it HAS to be good.)