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Task #1: An epistolary novel or collection of letters
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I have been intending to read this for nearly 20 years. Maybe your review will get me moving on that :)

Sabine's Notebook (I read Griffin & Sabine this year)
Attachments
Les Liaisons dangereuses
Daddy-Long-Legs

Also, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is a great read and the audio book is really well done.

Agree with Julie that The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is a great choice for this task and the audio book is very good.


I’ll be reading Love Letters collected by Antonia Fraser for this. Got it at a second hand shop and it also will fill the not-many-reviews task too

I have been i..."
I'll have to remember to report back when I'm finished!

I know Dracula is. It's been a long time since I've read Frankenstein, but I don't think it's epistolary (someone please correct me if I'm remembering wrong).

I know Dracula is. It's been..."
Thank you.

I was going to suggest 84, Charing Cross Road. It is so delightful and who can resist a book about books? :)


Frankenstein is also epistolary. Victor Frankenstein tells his story to the captain of a ship, who writes about it in letters to his sister. As far as I remember, the book consists of these letters alone.


I’m using 84 Charing Cross as well.



Frankenstein is also epistol..."
Thank you! That's great news, I can use it for the Reading Women challenge also.

For me, this is a must-read, AND a re-read.

This looks pretty good!
Margaret, The Screwtape Letters is a fantastic book. You've chosen well.


I have the same plan lol.
I also thought about 84, Charing Cross Road or I could do a re-read of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, since I don't remember reading it.

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The Color Purple is excellent!!!!

I enjoyed it, and I’ve met the author. If you like quilting there’s some of that as well

Also I think I heard World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War and The Handmaid's Tale works for this one.



I have Vladimir Nabokov's Letters to Vera on my shelf, so I might take this opportunity to dive into it.



Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
Only Human
Gemina

For anyone wanting nonfiction and/or something with a wide variety of voices, Letters of the Century: America 1900-1999 and Women's Letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the Present are both nice collections.

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Letters to My Younger Self: An Anthology of Writings by Incarcerated Men at S.C.I. Graterford (other topics)The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (other topics)
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Conviction (other topics)
De Profundis (other topics)
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Oscar Wilde (other topics)J.Y. Yang (other topics)
Patricia C. Wrede (other topics)
Hillary Frank (other topics)
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