If you’re going to write a novel, consider using formats other than the usual bog-standard prose, like, for example:
- Violence 101, Denis Wright (letters)
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky (letters – general fiction collection)
- Dracula, Bram Stoker (letters, also diaries and newspaper articles)
- The Color Purple, Alice Walker (letters and diary entries)
I Heart You, You Haunt Me, Lisa Schroeder (verse, as in poetry)
- Hugging the rock, Susan Taylor Brown (verse)
- The apprentice’s masterpiece: a story of medieval Spain, Melanie Little (verse)
Ttfn, Ttyl, L8r G8r (Internet Girls), Lauren Myracle (instant messaging)
- Something to Blog About, Shana Norris (blog)
- Dear everybody: a novel written in the form of letters, diary entries, encyclopedia entries, conversations with various people, notes sent home from
teachers, newspaper articles, psychological evaluations, weather reports, a missing person flyer, a eulogy, a last will and testament, and other fragments, which taken together tell the story of the short life of Jonathon Bender, weatherman, by Michael Kimball (see title! – general fiction collection)
Other famous epistolary novels include Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (1749), The Screwtape Letters by C S Lewis (1942) and Lemony Snicket: the Unauthorized Autobiography, by Lemony Snicket (2002).
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