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February 2001
Compiled by Mary Rindfleisch of Ridgefield (CT) Library, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.

(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)

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Anniversay   Michael Adams
Marienbad; Adventures of Menahem-Mendel   Sholom Aleichem
Speak   Laurie Halse Anderson
Love and Friendship; Lady Susan   Jane Austen
A Visit to Highbury   Joan Austen-Leigh
Nothing But the Turth   Avi
Griffin and Sabine   Nick Bantock (and the sequels)
Vox   Nicholson Baker
The Voyage of the Narwhal   Andrea Barrett
Letters   John Barth
Dear Stranger, Dearest Friend   Laney Becker
A Winding Path   Carrie Bender
The Pull of the Moon   Elizabeth Berg
A World of Love   Elizabeth Bowen
Freedom and Necessity   Emma Bull
Evelina   Fanny Burney
Possession   A.S. Byatt
Princess Diaries   Meg Cabot
Dialogues with the Devil   Taylor Caldwell
Ecotopia   Ernest Callenbach
The Count of Eleven   Ramsey Campbell
Love Letters   Eli Cantor
The Fruit Cocktail Diaries   Brian Carmody
Thus Was Adonis Murdered   Sarah Caudwell
Loves Children   Judith Chernaik
The Perks of Being a Wallflower   Stephen Chbosky
The Archivist   Martha Cooley
Johanna   Claire Cooperstein
Ironman   Chris Crutcher
The Diary of Mattie Spenser; Alice's Tulips   Sandra Dallas
Free City   Eric Darton
The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks   Robertson Davies
Les Liaisons Dangereuses   Choderlos De Lados
Night Letters   Robert Dessaix
The Death of A King   P.C. Doherty
To My Ex-Husband   Susan Dondon
Poor Folk   Fyodor Dostoevsky
My Dear Alex: Letters from the KGB   Dinesh D'Souza
Secret Lives   Max Egremont
The Sevigne Letters   William Eisner
Inconceivable   Ben Elton
The Mycroft Holmes mystery series   Quinn Fawcett
One Thousand White Women   Jim Fergus
Bridget Jones's Diary   Helen Fielding
Shamela   Henry Fielding
E-Mail   Stephanie Fletcher
The Trick of It   Michael Frayn
The Diary of Emily Dickinson   Jamie Fuller
Sophie's World   Jostein Gaarder
To Love and to Cherish   Patricia Gaffney
The Queen of the Tamborine   Jane Gardam
The Journal of Mrs. Pepys   Sara George
The City and the House   Natalia Ginzburg
Beauty Queen   Linda Glovach
The Sorrows of Young Werther   Johann Goethe
Dog Years   Gunter Grass
Where the Road Goes   Joann Greenberg
Love from Elizabeth   Meredith Gregg
The Fleetwood Correspondence   William Griffin
Joanna's Husband and David's Wife   Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
A Woman of Independent Means   Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
The Diary of William Harvey   Jean Hamburger
Disobedience   Jane Hamilton
The Chess Garden   Brooks Hansen
Lying in Bed   Mark Harris
Living Proof   John Harvey
Cells of Knowledge   Sian Hayton
White Lies   Jonellen Heckler
The Conspiracy   John Hersey
The Perfect Murder   Jack Hitt
The Tattooed Map   Barbara Hodgson
Primrose Past   Caroline Rose Hunt
The Last Voyage   Hammond Innes
Molly   Nancy Johnson
Love Enter   Paul Kafka
Covenant With the Vampire   Jeanne Kalogridis
A Light in the Window   Jan Karon
Sinatraland   Sam Kashner
Up the Down Staircase   Bel Kaufman
The Lost Diaries of Frans Hals   Michael Kernan
Jerusalem's Lot (in Night Shift)   Stephen King
My Sweet Folly   Laura Kinsale
Last Days of Summer   Steve Kluger
Ring Around the Bases & You Know Me Al   Ring Lardner
Guiding Elliott   Robert Lee
The Love Letters   Madeleine L'Engle
Guide for the Perplexed   Jonathan Levi
Shadow-Box   Antonia Logue
The Unloved   Arnoest Lustig
Nightlines   John Lutz
Burden of Desire   Robert MacNeil
Zenzele   J. Nozipo Nkosana Maraire
Letters from the Inside; Checkers   John Marsden
Long Distances   Fabienne Marsh
The Journalist   Harry Mathews
The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn   Robin Maxwell
Lovely in her Bones   Sharyn McCrumb
Buffalo Girls   Larry McMurtry
Acts of Love   Judith Michael
The Journal of Callie Wade   Dawn Miller
Time Like an Ever-Rolling Stream   Judith Moffett
Emily of New Moon; Emily CLimbs; Emily's Quest   L.M. Montgomery
Feeling Sorry for Celia   Jaclyn Moriarty
Carried Away (in the collection Open Secrets)   Alice Munro
Fan Mail   Ronald Munson
An Accidental Man   Iris Murdoch
Dear Digby   Carol Muske-Dukes
Virtual Love   Avodah Offit
The Goddess Letters   Carol Orlock
Between Earth and Sky   Karen Osborn
Black Box   Amos Oz
Home Thoughts   Tim Parks
Youth in Revolt; Revolting Youth   C.D. Payne
Dear Diego   Elena Poniatowska
The Fan   Bob Randall
@ Expectations   Kit Reed
Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging   Louise Rennison
Clarissa   Samuel Richardson
Pamela   Samuel Richardson
The Turnabout Shop   Colby Rodowsky
Diary of a Cat   Leigh Rutledge
Dear Sarah Bernhardt   Francoise Sagan
Letters from Vinnie   Maureen Sappey
The Documents in the Case (in Busman's Honeymoon)   Dorothy L. Sayers
The Love Letter   Cathleen Schine
Raising My Titanic   Mary Sheldon
H   Elizabeth Shepard
The Weight of Water   Anita Shreve
Letters from Yellowstone   Diane Smith
New Orleans Beat   Julie Smith
The Christmas Letters   Lee Smith
Fair and Tender Ladies   Lee Smith
Expedition of Humphrey Clinker   Tobia Smollett
Annie's Baby   Beatrice Sparks
Message in a Bottle   Nicholas Sparks
Angle of Repose   Wallace Stegner
Mrs. Tim of the Regiment   D.E. Stevenson
Dracula   Bram Stoker
Follow your Heart   Susanna Tamaro
Address Unknown   Kressman Taylor
Dark Deeds, Sweet Songs   Margot Tenney
The Father Christmas Letters   JRR Tolkien
The Adrian Mole Diaries   Sue Townsend
Thursdays 'Til 9   Jane Trahey
These Is My Words   Nancy Turner
S   John Updike
The Memory Book of Starr Faithful   GLoria Vanderbilt
The Book of Secrets   M.G. Vassanji
Travers Corners   Scott Waldie
The Color Purple   Alice Walker
Letter to Lord Liszt   Martin Walser
Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear   Katharine Weber
Daddy Long-Legs   Jean Webster
Over What Hill?   Effie Leland Wilder
Ides of March   Thornton Wilder
The Train to Estelline   Jane Roberts Woods
Sorcery and Cecelia   Patricia Wrede & Caroline Stevermer
The Ginger Tree   Oswald Wynd

Other People's Mail: An Anthology of Letter Stories -- edited by Gail Pool

 
 
      
   
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