Epistolary novels

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature from different body parts in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18 and staying in Bath, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821.

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. The narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist and opens with English solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula. Revealing his true nature as a vampire, Dracula moves to England and plagues the seaside town of Whitby. Harker joins a group led by Abraham Van Helsing who hunt and kill the Count.

novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1991 novel by Jostein Gaarder

novel written as a series of letters

novel by Arthur Conan Doyle

1848 novel by Anne Brontë

1846 novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

short story by Daniel Keyes, later expanded into a novel

1974 novel by Stephen King

1782 epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

1721 literary work by Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu

novel by Wilkie Collins

2004 novel by David Mitchell

1999 coming-of-age epistolary novel

novel by Jane Austen

book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

American epistolary novel

novel by Marguerite Yourcenar

2006 novel by Max Brooks

1982 novel by Alice Walker

novel by John Fowles

novel by Wilkie Collins

satirical, epistolary Christian apologetic novel by C. S. Lewis

book by Aravind Adiga

1740 novel by Samuel Richardson

2012 novel by Gillian Flynn

2005 novel by Elizabeth Kostova

c. 1797 novel by Friedrich Hölderlin

1995 novel by Christopher Priest

novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery

2000 novel by Mark Z. Danielewski

2003 novel by Lionel Shriver

18th century epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson

1909 novel by André Gide

book published anonymously by Claude Barbin

2006 novel by Sara Gruen

1992 novel by Alasdair Gray

book by Honoré de Balzac

novel by Saul Bellow

12th-century Glagolitic manuscript

2004 novel by Marilynne Robinson

1793 novel by Marquis de Sade

2020 novel by Susanna Clarke

1444 novel by Enea Silvio Piccolomini

2010 novel by Justin Cronin

Microserfs is an epistolary novel by Douglas Coupland published by HarperCollins in 1995. It first appeared in short story form as the cover article for the January 1994 issue of Wired magazine and was subsequently expanded to full novel length. Set in the early 1990s, it captures the state of the technology industry before Windows 95, and anticipates the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s.

novel by Hjalmar Söderberg

1993 science fiction novel by Octavia E. Butler

book by William Hill Brown

'''''Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World''''' is a novel written by English author Frances Burney and first published in 1778. Although published anonymously, its authorship was revealed by the poet George Huddesford in what Burney called a "vile poem".

novel by Thornton Wilder

novel by Stephen King

book by Mary Ann Shaffer

2012 novel by Maria Semple

novel by Henry Fielding

Redgauntlet is an 1824 historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels, set primarily in Dumfriesshire, southwest Scotland, in 1765, and described by Magnus Magnusson (a point first made by Andrew Lang) as "in a sense, the most autobiographical of Scott's novels." It describes a plot to start a fictional third Jacobite Rebellion, and includes "Wandering Willie's Tale", a famous short story which frequently appears in anthologies.

1915 novel by Jean Webster

Doctor Who serial

1972 novel by John Edward Williams