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Annual Theme #2: BOOKS IN UNIQUE WRITTEN FORMATS / Epistolary
(letters, emails, diaries, journals, poems, documents, podcasts, etc)
We will have a group read on this theme in the months of: April, October

Please nominate books that have unique written formats / epistolary.

Book with the most seconds wins, if its close, we'll set up a poll
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Summary of Nominations/Seconds:
Letters of Two Brides - 2
Persuasion - 2
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters - 2
Dracula - 2
Life As We Knew It - 1
Illuminae - 1
The Wild Irish Girl: A National Tale - 1
The Sorrows of Young Werther - 1
Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded - 1
Up the Down Staircase - 1

Nominating Life As We Knew It

Science Fiction/Dystopian novel - a meteor knocks the moon closer to earth... Told in journal entries, this is the heart-pounding story of Miranda’s struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all--hope--in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world.

Two nominations
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Illuminae is a 2015 young adult space opera epistolary novel written by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. This is the first novel of the series The Illuminae Files. The story is told through a series of classified documents, censored emails, interviews, and others.

Since some of the above are not available or are very high priced, I would like to propose some excellent books that are FREE on Project Gutenberg:

Letters of Two Brides - Honoré de Balzac
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1941

The Wild Irish Girl: A National Tale - Sydney Owenson Morgan
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54683

The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2527

Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded - Samuel Richardson
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6124

Persuasion - Jane Austen

I second Persuasion and Letters of Two Brides.

Mion wrote: "I second Persuasion and Letters of Two Brides."

I think you might get Persuasion free too as part of a complete collection. :)

Up the Down Staircase - Bel Kaufman

I love this book, and read my first copy til it was battered and worn. A story of a young teacher's first year by the marvellous Bel Kaufman, granddaughter of Sholom Rabinowitz, otherwise known as the irrepressible Sholom Aleichem

Jazzy wrote: "Mion wrote: "I second Persuasion and Letters of Two Brides."

I think you might get Persuasion free too as part of a complete collection. :)"

I have this giant book with Austen's novels anyway and this book has also been translated and in short, very easily accessible 😊

ah so we're both sorted!

I also would like to nominate Dracula by Bram Stoker!

I vant to read zee book!

I second Ella, Minnow, Pea and also Dracula.

We don't have a clear winner, so I'll set up a poll with the four books that have 2 nominations.

Poll is here:
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...