List of 47 Books Based on Letters
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Searching for books whose story is inspired by a certain type of source? Take a look at this handy list of books based on letters. You'll be sure to find the reading material you need here.
| Title | Author | Publishing Year | Genre |
| 84, Charing Cross Road | Helene Hanff | 1970 | Epistolary novel, Biography |
| Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | 2015 | Biography, Autobiography |
| Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne | John Keats | 2009 | Poetry, Classics, Nonfiction, Romance |
| Daddy-Long-Legs | Jean Webster | 1912 | Novel, Epistolary novel, Young adult fiction |
| Dear Committee Members | Julie Schumacher | 2014 | Novel, Epistolary novel, Satire, Humorous Fiction |
| Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom | Leonard S. Marcus | 1998 | Biography |
| Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions | Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche | 2017 | Nonfiction, Feminism, Womens, Parenting, Adult |
| Dear Mr. You | Mary-Louise Parker | 2015 | Biography, Autobiography |
| Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh | Vincent van Gogh | 1914 | Biography |
| Letters: Emily Dickinson | Emily Dickinson | 1894 | Poetry, Nonfiction, Classics, History, Biography |
| Feeling Sorry for Celia | Jaclyn Moriarty | 2000 | Novel, Fiction, Epistolary novel, Bildungsroman |
| Gilead | Marilynne Robinson | 2004 | Historical Fiction, Religion, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics |
| Griffin & Sabine | Nick Bantock | 1991 | Novel, Epistolary novel, Romance novel, Fantasy Fiction, Adventure fiction, Toy book |
| I Love Dick | Chris Kraus | 1997 | Psychological Fiction |
| In the Country of Last Things | Paul Auster | 1987 | Dystopian Fiction |
| Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters | Jack Kerouac | 2010 | Biography, Autobiography |
| Jane Austen's Letters | Jane Austen | 1932 | Nonfiction, Classics, Biography, History, Literature |
| Last Christmas in Paris | Hazel Gaynor, Heather Webb | 2017 | Novel, Romance novel, Historical Fiction, Epistolary novel, Coming-of-age story, Christmas Story |
| Kurt Vonnegut: Letters | Kurt Vonnegut | 2012 | Nonfiction, Biography |
| Letters from a Stoic | Seneca | 2004 | Philosophy, Nonfiction, Classics, History, Self Help |
| Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings | Mark Twain | 1962 | Fiction |
| Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience | Shaun Usher | 2018 | Biography, Reference work |
| Letters to a Young Artist | Anna Deavere Smith | 2006 | Self-help book |
| Letters to a Young Contrarian | Christopher Hitchens | 2001 | Nonfiction, Philosophy, Politics |
| Letters to a Young Poet | Ranier Maria Rilke | 1929 | |
| Love Letters to the Dead | Ava Dellaira | 2014 | Novel, Fiction |
| P.S. I Hate It Here!: Kids' Letters from Camp | Diane Falanga | 2010 | Humour |
| Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times | Carolina De Robertis | 2017 | Biography |
| Regarding the Fountain: A Tale, in Letters, of Liars and Leaks | Kate Klise | 1998 | Children's literature, Fiction |
| So Long a Letter | Mariama Bâ | 1979 | Novel, Fiction, Epistolary novel |
| Steinbeck: A Life in Letters | John Steinbeck | 1975 | Biography |
| Swimming Lessons | Claire Fuller | 2017 | Novel, Mystery, Epistolary novel, Domestic Fiction |
| The Color Purple | Alice Walker | 1982 | Novel, Epistolary novel, Domestic Fiction |
| The Fan | Bob Randall | 1977 | Thriller, Epistolary novel, Psychological Fiction |
| Letters from Father Christmas | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1976 | Children's literature, Fantasy Fiction |
| The Girl in the Box | Ouida Sebestyen | 1988 | Fiction |
| The Groucho Letters | Groucho Marx | 1967 | Biography |
| The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows | 2008 | Novel, Epistolary novel, Historical Fiction |
| The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor | Flannery O'Connor | 1979 | Biography |
| The John Lennon Letters | John Lennon | 2012 | Music, Nonfiction, Biography, History, Biography Memoir |
| The Jolly Postman | Allan and Janet Ahlberg | 1986 | Children's literature, Picture book, Fiction |
| The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1981 | Biography |
| The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Vol. One, 1888-1912 | Virginia Woolf | 1975 | Nonfiction, Biography, Classics, Womens |
| The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Stephen Chbosky | 1999 | Novel, Young adult fiction, Epistolary novel, Bildungsroman |
| The Screwtape Letters | C.S. Lewis | 1942 | Novel, Fantasy Fiction, Satire, Epistolary novel, Religious Fiction |
| War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars | Andrew Carroll | 2001 | Biography |
| We Need to Talk About Kevin | Lionel Shriver | 2003 | Novel, Fiction, Thriller, Epistolary novel |
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