Editing Epistolary novel (section)

=== Twenty-first century ===
{{main|List of contemporary epistolary novels}}
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* ''Between Friends'' by [[Debbie Macomber]] (2001) tells the story of a lifelong friendship between Jillian Lawton and Lesley Adamski from the 1950s to the early 2000s, using a combination of letters (later becoming emails) and daily paraphernalia like a gas station receipt. 
* [[Mark Dunn]]'s ''[[Ella Minnow Pea]]'' (2001) is a progressively [[lipogram]]matic epistolary novel – the letters become increasingly more difficult to read as the lipogrammatic constraints are brought in, and this requires the reader to attempt to interpret what is being written.
* ''La silla del águila'' ("The Eagle's Throne") by [[Carlos Fuentes]] (2003) is a political satire written as a series of letters between persons in high levels of the Mexican government in 2020. The epistolary format is treated by the author as a consequence of necessity: the United States impedes all telecommunications in Mexico as a retaliatory measure, leaving letters and smoke signals as the only possible methods of communication, particularly ironic given one character's observation that "Mexican politicians put nothing in writing."
* ''[[We Need to Talk About Kevin]]'' by [[Lionel Shriver]] (2003) is a monologic epistolary novel written as a series of letters from Eva, Kevin's mother, to her husband Franklin.<ref name=Ashworth-Hirst/>
* ''[[The Sluts]]'' (2004) by [[Dennis Cooper]] is composed of online posts, reviews and email correspondence. Each contributes to a central mystery, fuelled by competing narratives about an escort. 
* The 2004 novel ''[[Cloud Atlas (novel)|Cloud Atlas]]'' by [[David Mitchell (author)|David Mitchell]] tells a story in several time periods in a nested format, with some sections told in epistolary style, including an interview, journal entries and a series of letters.
*''[[March (novel)|March]]'' (2005), by [[Geraldine Brooks (writer)|Geraldine Brooks]], is a novel depicting the events of the protagonist's experiences during the American Civil War in 1862 through letters.
* ''[[World War Z|World War&nbsp;Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War]]'' (2006), by [[Max Brooks]], is a series of interviews from various survivors of a [[zombie apocalypse]].
*[[Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (novel)|''Salmon Fishing in the Yemen'']] (2007) by [[Paul Torday]], is a series of letters, e-mails, interview transcripts, newspaper articles and other non-narrative media.
* ''[[The White Tiger (Adiga novel)|The White Tiger]]'' (2008) by [[Aravind Adiga]], winner of the 40th [[Man Booker Prize]] in 2008, is a novel in the form of letters written by an Indian villager to the Chinese Premier [[Wen Jiabao]].
* ''[[The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society]]'' (2008), by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, is written as a series of letters and telegraphs sent and received by the protagonist.
* ''[[A Visit from the Goon Squad]]'' (2010) by [[Jennifer Egan]] has parts which are epistolary in nature. One chapter is written as a report of a celebrity interview, and another as a [[Microsoft PowerPoint|PowerPoint]] presentation.
* ''[[Where'd You Go, Bernadette]]'' (2012) by [[Maria Semple]] is told in a series of documents such as emails, memos and transcripts.
* ''[[Illuminae]]'', by [[Jay Kristoff]] and [[Amie Kaufman]]n, is told exclusively through a series of classified documents, censored emails, interviews, and others.