Letters and Diaries Web Novels

This tag flags novels where letters and diary entries carry real narrative weight, whether the whole book is correspondence or key chapters arrive as found documents. Softer than the strict epistolary form: the documents share the page with conventional narration. Frequent pairings: epistolary, memory, historical-period.

Narrower than epistolary: this is specifically correspondence and private journals rather than any documentary form. The intimacy is the point, a diary has no audience, so the narrator has no reason to perform, which is exactly why they can still be lying to themselves. Pairs with diary-format for structure and first-person for voice.