YA Epistolary Fiction: Stories Told in Letters and TextsLike this list

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• Love in 280 Characters or Less

  Stringfield, Ravynn K.,

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  Black college student Sydney Ciara navigates academics, love, and the online space, in this coming-of-age told through her blog posts, messages, and more! Sydney Ciara Warren is excited as she starts her first year of college, but also nervous.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fragments That Remain

  Angeconeb, Mackenzie,

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  "Dearest Departed, I do not know when I decided I was going to write. I am not a writer. You are. You were." Honorary twins Ally and Andy, born at the start and end of the same year, have always shared everything ― until Ally dies, his passing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Be That Way

  Larson, Hope,

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  Seventeen-year-old Christine keeps a journal of an eventful year in her life in mid-90s, while juggling troubled friendships and looking for love. It’s January 1, 1996, and high school junior Christine wants more than anything to be that cool girl…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Yours From the Tower

  Nicholls, Sally, 1983-

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  This epistolary confection—told in letters among three school friends—is perfect for devotees of gossipy costume drama. Tirzah, Sophia, and Polly are best friends who’ve left boarding school and gone back to very different lives. The year is 1896,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Frankenstein

  Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851,

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  When ambitious young scientist Victor Frankenstein animates a humanoid figure he crafted from stolen corpses, he gets more than he bargained for. While his creation is brutish--large, strong, and horrifying to look at--it's also an intelligent,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Divine Rivals

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  Ross, Rebecca (Rebecca J.),

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  When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, they must face the depths of hell, in a war among gods, to seal their fate forever. After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again. But eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Things I'll Never Say

  Newbould, Cassandra,

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  Ten years ago, the Scar Squad promised each other nothing would tear them apart. Even when Casey Jones Caruso lost her twin brother Sammy to an overdose, and their foursome became a threesome, the squad picked each other up. But when Casey’s feeling…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Code Name Verity

  Wein, Elizabeth,

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  Oct. 11th, 1943—A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun. When “Verity” is arrested by the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Take Me With You When You Go

  Levithan, David,

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  Ezra Ahern wakes up one day to find his older sister, Bea, gone. No note, no sign, nothing but an email address hidden somewhere only he would find it. Ezra never expected to be left behind with their abusive stepfather and their neglectful…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Breath Too Late

  Callen, Rocky,

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  Seventeen-year-old Ellie had no hope left. Yet the day after she dies by suicide, she finds herself in the midst of an out-of-body experience. She is a spectator, swaying between past and present, retracing the events that unfolded prior to her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me

  Tamaki, Mariko,

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  Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl: charming, confident, and SO cute. There's just one problem: Laura Dean is maybe not the greatest girlfriend. Reeling from her latest break up, Freddy's best friend,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dear Haiti, Love Alaine

  Moulite, Maika,

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  Alaine Beauparlant has heard about Haiti all her life… But the stories were always passed down from her dad—and her mom, when she wasn’t too busy with her high-profile newscaster gig. But when Alaine’s life goes a bit sideways, it’s time to finally…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Contain Multitudes

  Henstra, Sarah,

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  Jonathan Hopkirk and Adam "Kurl" Kurlansky are partnered in English class, writing letters to one another in a weekly pen pal assignment. With each letter, the two begin to develop a friendship that eventually grows into love. But with homophobia,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dear Martin

  Stone, Nic,

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  Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.

• Illuminae

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  Kaufman, Amie,

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  Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the worst thing she’d ever been through. That was before her planet was invaded. Now, with enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra are forced to fight their way onto one of the evacuating craft, with an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Everything, Everything

  Yoon, Nicola,

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  My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I’m allergic to the world.I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla. But then one day, a moving truck arrives next…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love Letters to the Dead

  Dellaira, Ava,

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  When Laurel starts writing letters to dead people for a school assignment, she begins to spill about her sister's mysterious death, her mother's departure from the family, her new friends, and her first love.

• The Princess Diaries

  Cabot, Meg

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  Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.

• Dracula

  Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912

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  When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Color Purple

  Walker, Alice, 1944-

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  Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate, and while Nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in Africa, Celie is…Read moreRead more of this annotation