Best Books of Letters (Non-Fiction)

1.
Letters to a Young Poet
Letters to a Young Poet 4.28 avg rating — 113,863 ratings
2.
Letters from a Stoic
Letters from a Stoic
by: Seneca
4.33 avg rating — 52,581 ratings
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The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien 4.22 avg rating — 7,060 ratings
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Letters to Milena
Letters to Milena 3.92 avg rating — 22,665 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
84, Charing Cross Road 4.16 avg rating — 93,103 ratings
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Dear Mr. Potter: Letters of Love, Loss, and Magic
Dear Mr. Potter: Letters of Love, Loss, and Magic 4.47 avg rating — 2,003 ratings
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The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh 4.09 avg rating — 107,628 ratings
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Letters to Children
Letters to Children 4.24 avg rating — 2,363 ratings
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Letters to Sartre
Letters to Sartre 4.04 avg rating — 729 ratings
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The Letters
The Letters 4.14 avg rating — 284 ratings
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Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson 4.60 avg rating — 1,567 ratings
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Letters to Children
Letters to Children 4.21 avg rating — 242 ratings
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The Selected Letters
The Selected Letters 4.19 avg rating — 182 ratings
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The Yage Letters
The Yage Letters 3.65 avg rating — 4,079 ratings
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Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children
Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children 3.85 avg rating — 349 ratings
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A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story
A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story 4.21 avg rating — 1,312 ratings
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Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate
Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate 4.04 avg rating — 1,036 ratings
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Travels Through France and Italy
Travels Through France and Italy 3.64 avg rating — 110 ratings
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How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays
How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays 3.69 avg rating — 3,182 ratings
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Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975
Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975 4.12 avg rating — 203 ratings
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Letters from the Editors of National Lampoon
Letters from the Editors of National Lampoon 3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Letters of Ted Hughes
Letters of Ted Hughes 4.11 avg rating — 425 ratings
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A Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War
A Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War 3.91 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Questioning Minds: Volumes I and II: The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner
Questioning Minds: Volumes I and II: The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner 4.76 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Your Vigor for Life Appalls Me: The R. Crumb Letters 1958-1977
Your Vigor for Life Appalls Me: The R. Crumb Letters 1958-1977 3.32 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Corresponding with Carlos: A Biography of Carlos Kleiber
Corresponding with Carlos: A Biography of Carlos Kleiber 4.67 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters
The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters 4.11 avg rating — 3,188 ratings
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Dear Mrs. Kennedy: The World Shares Its Grief, Letters November 1963
Dear Mrs. Kennedy: The World Shares Its Grief, Letters November 1963 3.74 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Ingeborg Bachmann - Paul Celan. Correspondence
Ingeborg Bachmann - Paul Celan. Correspondence 4.32 avg rating — 727 ratings
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Willie Nelson's Letters to America
Willie Nelson's Letters to America 4.18 avg rating — 1,172 ratings
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My Dear Mr. Hopper
My Dear Mr. Hopper 3.43 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Love Letters of the Great War
Love Letters of the Great War 4.24 avg rating — 416 ratings
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There's a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis
There's a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis 4.33 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Letters from St Petersburg: A Siamese Prince at the Court of the Last Tsar
Letters from St Petersburg: A Siamese Prince at the Court of the Last Tsar it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Letters of Fyodor Dostoevsky to his family and friends
Letters of Fyodor Dostoevsky to his family and friends 4.31 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison
The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison 4.35 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Letters to a Young Contrarian
Letters to a Young Contrarian 4.13 avg rating — 12,648 ratings
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A Letter To Pakistan
A Letter To Pakistan 3.66 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Grand Tour: Letters and Photographs from the British Empire Expedition 1922
The Grand Tour: Letters and Photographs from the British Empire Expedition 1922 3.79 avg rating — 849 ratings
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Letter to a Christian Nation
Letter to a Christian Nation really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 41,927 ratings
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Letters from Tove
Letters from Tove 4.25 avg rating — 473 ratings
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Letters to Lily: On How the World Works
Letters to Lily: On How the World Works 3.49 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Faithfully Yours: The Letters of Byron Herbert Reece
Faithfully Yours: The Letters of Byron Herbert Reece liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Letters
Letters 4.08 avg rating — 1,724 ratings
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Letters to Camondo
Letters to Camondo 4.15 avg rating — 2,001 ratings
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The Letters of Shirley Jackson
The Letters of Shirley Jackson 4.54 avg rating — 406 ratings
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Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford
Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford 4.10 avg rating — 486 ratings
48.
The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde
The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde 4.30 avg rating — 538 ratings
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Funny Letters from Famous People
Funny Letters from Famous People 2.97 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Seen/Unseen: Hidden Lives in a Community of Enslaved Georgians
Seen/Unseen: Hidden Lives in a Community of Enslaved Georgians 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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O Fortunate Floridian: H.P. Lovecraft's Letters to R.H. Barlow
O Fortunate Floridian: H.P. Lovecraft's Letters to R.H. Barlow 4.73 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Letters from Attica: 50th Anniversary Annotated Edition
Letters from Attica: 50th Anniversary Annotated Edition 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Lovecraft Letters Volume 2: Letters from New York
The Lovecraft Letters Volume 2: Letters from New York 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Regards, Ditko
Regards, Ditko 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Letters to Lovecraft
Letters to Lovecraft 3.64 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Letters of Note: Love
Letters of Note: Love 3.92 avg rating — 828 ratings
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Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters
Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters 4.27 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Consumer Joe: Harassing Corporate America, One Letter at a Time
Consumer Joe: Harassing Corporate America, One Letter at a Time 3.29 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Selected Letters V: 1934-1937
Selected Letters V: 1934-1937 4.41 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy in Black America
Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy in Black America 4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Selected Letters III: 1929-1931
Selected Letters III: 1929-1931 4.44 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Dear Sophie, Love Sophie: A Graphic Memoir in Diaries, Letters, and Lists―A Unique and Witty Reflection on Relationships, Identity, and Belonging
Dear Sophie, Love Sophie: A Graphic Memoir in Diaries, Letters, and Lists―A Unique and Witty Reflection on Relationships, Identity, and Belonging 4.15 avg rating — 612 ratings
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Selected Letters IV: 1932-1934
Selected Letters IV: 1932-1934 4.39 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Letters to a Young Activist
Letters to a Young Activist 3.58 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Selected Letters II: 1925-1929
Selected Letters II: 1925-1929 4.40 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Echoes of Violence: Letters from a War Reporter (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity, 1)
Echoes of Violence: Letters from a War Reporter (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity, 1) 4.56 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Selected Letters 1: 1911-1924.
Selected Letters 1: 1911-1924. 4.31 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Letters of Note: Art
Letters of Note: Art 4.05 avg rating — 183 ratings
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The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Vol. One, 1888-1912
The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Vol. One, 1888-1912 4.31 avg rating — 629 ratings
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The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor 4.47 avg rating — 2,091 ratings
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The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book: Charles Lamar, the Wanderer, and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade
The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book: Charles Lamar, the Wanderer, and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade 3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Selected Letters
Selected Letters 3.99 avg rating — 645 ratings
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Letters to a Young Teacher
Letters to a Young Teacher 3.79 avg rating — 2,114 ratings
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To Obama: With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope
To Obama: With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope 4.45 avg rating — 2,290 ratings
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Jane Austen's Letters
Jane Austen's Letters 4.14 avg rating — 2,744 ratings
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The Faulkner-Cowley File: Letters and Memories, 1944-1962
The Faulkner-Cowley File: Letters and Memories, 1944-1962 4.10 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald 4.15 avg rating — 1,999 ratings
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My Dearest Julia: The Wartime Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Wife
My Dearest Julia: The Wartime Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Wife 4.12 avg rating — 242 ratings
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A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953 4.20 avg rating — 2,329 ratings
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Just & Holy Cause
Just & Holy Cause 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Prison Letters
Prison Letters 4.06 avg rating — 453 ratings
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Ashen Sky: The Letters of Pliny The Younger on the Eruption of Vesuvius
Ashen Sky: The Letters of Pliny The Younger on the Eruption of Vesuvius 4.04 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land
Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land
by: Amos Oz
4.05 avg rating — 926 ratings
84.
Letters on England
Letters on England
by: Voltaire
3.67 avg rating — 2,788 ratings
84.
George Carlin Letters: The Permanent Courtship of Sally Wade, The
George Carlin Letters: The Permanent Courtship of Sally Wade, The 3.81 avg rating — 268 ratings
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Looking-Glass Letters
Looking-Glass Letters 3.80 avg rating — 40 ratings
86.
Letters to a Young Muslim
Letters to a Young Muslim 4.05 avg rating — 2,788 ratings
88.
Mozart: A Life in Letters
Mozart: A Life in Letters 4.32 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949
Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949 4.11 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Selected Letters
Selected Letters 3.81 avg rating — 231 ratings
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Good Things Out of Nazareth: The Uncollected Letters of Flannery O'Connor and Friends
Good Things Out of Nazareth: The Uncollected Letters of Flannery O'Connor and Friends 4.12 avg rating — 146 ratings
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You're Sending Me Where?: Dispatches from Summer Camp
You're Sending Me Where?: Dispatches from Summer Camp 3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings
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My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams
My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams 4.19 avg rating — 2,388 ratings
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Posted in Wartime: Letters Home from Abroad
Posted in Wartime: Letters Home from Abroad 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Letters of John Keats
Letters of John Keats 4.37 avg rating — 532 ratings
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Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times
Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times 4.01 avg rating — 1,269 ratings
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Alice in France: The World War I Letters of Alice M. O'Brien
Alice in France: The World War I Letters of Alice M. O'Brien 3.94 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Letters to a Spiritual Seeker
Letters to a Spiritual Seeker 3.93 avg rating — 394 ratings
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Two Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark
Two Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark 4.36 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Letters Home
Letters Home 4.23 avg rating — 3,149 ratings
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