I have another of Irene and Alan Taylor's work, The War Diaries, which focuses on the eponymous subject. Not quite as enjoyable as The Assassin's Cloak, but since that is one of my favorite books, I am happy to read 'almost as good.'

OOh, Siobhan. Good one. Will add it to my list of "books I absolutely have to buy right now as I am addicted to reading people's diaries so long as no one reads my own".

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84 Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff
The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis

Had to jog my memory - that's what reading logs are for!

I think Stephen King's Carrie is written using newspaper and articles, letters, etc.

Diary of a Nobody - George and Weedon Grossmith

Sorcery and Cecilia, or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot - Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer

There is a sequel to Daddy Long-Legs titled Dear Enemy. Sally, from DDL is convinced to become the matron of John Greer orphanage, and immediately clashes with the town doctor about the care and feeding of the orphans. The story is told through letters and telegrams.
Some of the psychological and genetic theory is toe-curlingly awful in modern light, but was cutting-edge at the time.

that no one has mentioned The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

It's towards the bottom of lemonhead's list - one of my favorites!

This thread reminds me I really love this type of book.

The 3000 Mile Garden by Leslie Land and Roger Phillips.

I don' think anyone has mentioned Lady Susan by Jane Austen. Also, if diary format counts then another favorite is I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith.

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn - not only an epistolary novel but a technical tour de force - as letters fall off a statue in an island, they can no longer be used...

Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground. I just re-read it; man it is strange! And not particularly in a good way.

Yesterday I re-read Ford's The Good Soldier. The last time I read it was in graduate school, many years ago. What an absolutely fascinating case of an unreliable narrator! And a good study of the stolid English upper class that so intrigues the American. I had forgotten the mad Nancy's single and utterly appropriate word toward the end: "shuttlecocks"!

Was reminded of another couple of titles:

* Private Papers - Margaret Forster
* A Woman of Independent Means - Eliz. Forsythe Hailey

On the non-fiction side I absolutely love Flannery O'Connor's The Habit of Being, a collection of her correspondence. The letters of Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford are also loads of fun. Oddly enough, a collection I read of Oscar Wilde's letters was not terribly interesting, but that could have just been me.

Haven't even read this yet, saw it in Bookmarks magazine, Code Name Verity. It is in diary form, of a young female spy captured by the Nazis and facing execution. I've requested it from the library.

And came across another epistolary novel, highly rec by a blogger I can trust, called The Sandalwood Tree by Elle Newmark. Two characters whose lives touch through an epis fashion at the time of the Raj...

Oh, and this one: "Last Days of Summer" by Steve Kluger... That was a good read...

Lemonhead, I just this morning downloaded Collin's Lady in White. Thanks.

Another one:

* The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields

That's a good one...

Chris - how is Collins coming along? Well, really how are you coming along with Collins? :-)

I'll post this here, instead of the monthly thread - tried to read Code Name: Verity but it was just too brutal for me. I'm not a shrinking violet but the relentless torture descriptions were too much. But it is well written and well plotted. Can't believe it is a YA novel!

I recently downloaded the complete works of Jane Austen on my Kindle and in addition to Lady Susan she wrote quite a few epistolary novelettes early in her writing career, non of which are named or, presumably, reached publication. One is a bitingly funny parody of the then popular Gothic novel. All well worth reading.