Postal Books

This list is meant as more of a personal reading list and archive for books that I have read than as an exhaustive list (which would be impossible). By Epistolary Novels I mean novels that are composed entirely of letters. Postally Themed Novels are books where letters figure prominently but are not the only text. I hope it might be useful if you are looking for a book to read!
 
Postally Themed Novels:
Herzog by Saul Bellow
The Postman by David Brin
The Aspern Papers by Henry James
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
The Crying of lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley 
Post Office by Bukowski 
The Stamp Collector by Jennifer Lanthier, illustrated by François Thisdale
Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressman Taylor

Epistolary Novels:
Lady Susan by Jane Austen
Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence by Nick Bantock
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis 


Non-fiction: 
To The Letter by Simon Garfield

Mail-art:
Good Mail Day by Jennie Hinchcliff and Carolee Gilligan Wheeler

Collections of Letters:
Madame de Sévingné's letters
The Delicacy and Strength of Lace - Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright

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