The Book Goddess

Books in Letter or Diary Form

In the beginning: 

Pamela, or virtue rewarded / Samuel Richardson

Shamela / Henry Fielding

Another World:

The Venetian’s wife : a strangely sensual tale of a Renaissance explorer, a computer, and a transformation / by Nick Bantock

Gilead / Marilynne Robinson

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society / Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

A woman of independent means / Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

The color purple / Alice Walker

Girls of Riyadh / Rajaa Alsanea

In Search of Self:

Flowers for Algernon / Daniel Keyes

Mark Z. Danielewski’s The whalestoe letters / [edited] by Pelafina H. Lièvre

S. / John Updike

The pull of the moon / Elizabeth Berg

The queen of the tambourine / Jane Gardam

Social Issues:

The white tiger : a novel / Aravind Adiga

We need to talk about Kevin : a novel / Lionel Shriver

Up the down staircase / by Bel Kaufman

A history of the African-American people (proposed) by Strom Thurmond : a novel / as told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid

On the Lighter Side:

Ella Minnow Pea : a novel in letters / Mark Dunn

The Adrian Mole diaries / Sue Townsend

Bridget Jones’s diary : a novel / Helen Fielding

Boy meets girl / Meg Cabot