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* Pretty much everything at the Wiki/SCPFoundation save for some transcripts and the "Tales" section: descriptions of paranormal items/entities/etc and [[TailorMadePrison how to keep them contained]], experiment logs, exploration logs, and so on.

* ''Literature/TheAsylumForWaywardVictorianGirls'', in the same way as Shoebox Project.(changing between illustrations, normal chapters and letters)

* ''Literature/SalmonFishingInTheYemen consists entirely of letters between characters, newspaper articles about the affair, transcripts from a later investigation and an extract from an autobiography.

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A story whose text is largely, if not solely, composed of multiple contemporary [[FictionalDocument in-story documents]] to form the narrative. All the {{narrator}} has done is put the supposedly pre-existing documents in order. This style of writing used to be commonplace, because of its inbuilt explanation of how the narrator knows so much, but had been largely superseded by the Victorian period. However, it is still sometimes used.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/29469612/ Texts From Home]]'', a ''VideoGame/Persona5'' fic told entirely in the the text messages between Akira and his parents (who, rather unusually for this fandom, are loving and supportive).]]

* Wilkie Collins' novel ''Literature/TheWomanInWhite'' consists of a collection of narratives.

* ''Where'd You Go, Bernadette'' by Maria Semple is mainly told through emails or letters to and from various characters, but also includes things like a transcript of a character's TED Talk, press releases, and a blog post from a local weatherman. The premise is that Bee, the teenage daughter of the title character, gained access to all these documents and is piecing them together into a book in order to shed some light on her mother's mysterious disappearance. Occasionally, Bee herself will step in to fill in gaps between the documents or give her own counterpoint on something a character said in their writings.

Compare LiteraryAgentHypothesis, {{Rockumentary}}, and ApocalypticLog. See {{Diary}}.

* ''Literature/DearMrHenshaw'' features [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin letters to the author]] followed by {{diary}} entries of the protagonist.

%%%* ''GoAskAlice''. [[Literature/AliceinWonderland Not that one]].

** The novel ''Literature/DoloresClaiborne'', there are two newspaper excerpts at the end.

* ''Riot: A Love Story]]'' by Shashi Tharoor is made of fictional documents such as newspaper articles, letters, diary entries, and transcripts of interviews all centered around an American woman who was killed in India during a riot, shown in AnachronicOrder.

* Creator/KurtVonnegut's ''Literature/HocusPocus'' is [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis presented as]] the collection of hundreds of varying scraps of paper written on by the protagonist, Vance Hartke, while he was in prison.

* The ''Franchise/DenshaOtoko'' book is basically a printout of the original 2ch forum posts, ASCII art and all.
* The Creator/DanielPinkwater story ''Literature/SlavesOfSpiegel'' is mostly made up of fictional diaries, reports, speeches and the like, but also includes a short chapter memorably titled "An Unnamed Third Person Who Knows Everything That Happens In This Story Speaks."

** A particularly literal example is the third part of ''Literature/TheFifthHeadOfCerberus'', which consists of an Officer reviewing the journals and interrogations of a prisoner, which have become jumbled up in transit.

* ''Literature/TheAstonishingLifeOfOctavianNothing, Traitor to the Nation'' is composed entirely of "testimonies," letters, and reports from various characters.
%%%* General Sir John Hackett's in ''Literature/TheThirdWorldWar'' and sequels.
%%%* ''WarDay'' by Whitley Streiber and James Kunetka.
%%%* ''Literature/TheSorrowsOfYoungWerther'' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

* ''Literature/LettersFromCamp'' and the ''Literature/RegardingThe'' series, all children's novels by Kate Klise, consist entirely of (fictional) newspaper clippings and letters. She also co-authored ''Literature/TrialByJournal'' in the same vein with her sister, Sarah.

* Wallace Markfield's ''Literature/YouCouldLiveIfTheyLetYou'' consists of a biographer's interviewers with a BorschtBelt comic and his circle, excerpts from the comic's performances (including one near the end of the book [[spoiler:during which he [[FatalMethodActing literally dies on stage]]]]), transcripts of the comic's autistic son, and other documents. Markfield's final book, ''Literature/RadicalSurgery'', has this structure also.

* ''[[Literature/RiotALoveStory Riot: A Love Story]]'' by Shashi Tharoor is made of fictional documents such as newspaper articles, letters, diary entries, and transcripts of interviews all centered around an American woman who was killed in India during a riot, shown in AnachronicOrder.

* ''Literature/TheSnow'' by Adam Roberts used this to frame the multiple stories told by various protagonists.

* The Gary Crew novel ''Literature/StrangeObjects,'' essentially a scrapbook of items relating to the discovery of a small cache of archaeological artifacts found near the coast of Western Australia. These include newspaper clippings, magazine articles, transcripts of radio broadcasts, the serialized translation of a [[ApocalypticLog journal found among the artifacts]], some assorted letters, and several diary entries from the scrapbook's compiler- a student by the name of Steven Messenger. A prologue and epilogue have also been added by a later author, who notes that Messenger disappeared shortly after posting the scrapbook to him.
* Steve Kluger specializes in this format; he has several books using the technique, including ''Literature/LastDaysOfSummer'', ''Literature/MyMostExcellentYear: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park'', and ''Literature/ChangingPitches''. ''Literature/AlmostLikeBeingInLove'' is made up of notes, letters, emails, memos, and journal entries of the whole cast.

** C. S. Lewis' ''Literature/LettersToMalcolm'', a book concerning the function of prayer, is written in the form of letters from Lewis to a friend.

* ''Literature/ImportantArtifactsAndPersonalPropertyFromTheCollectionOfLenoreDoolanAndHaroldMorris'' by Leanne Shapton is a novel in the form of an auction catalog.

* ''Literature/MiddleSchoolIsWorseThanMeatloaf: A Year Told through Stuff'' tells the story of a young girl in 7th grade through diary entries, notes, cards, school assignments, receipts, shopping & to-do lists, etc.

* ''Literature/ICantTellYou'' begins just after the protagonist decides that he should stop talking to people, because [[NoodleIncident blurting out words led to a very painful situation]]. We see both his diary entries, and the notes he writes to other people (and in an effort to make him feel comfortable, many of those people write notes back to him.) Interesting in that a): some of these notes are canonically destroyed, and b): we also see patterns of splotches and burn marks, some of them made on clothing rather than paper, with descriptions of how those marks were made.

* ''Literature/PostApocalypseDeadLetterOffice" by Nathan Poell is a collection of undeliverable letters sent AfterTheEnd.

* ''Literature/{{Agyar}}'' by Creator/StevenBrust takes the form of journal entries being written by a vampire living in the attic of an abandoned house.

* ''Literature/TheEnchantedFiles'' (by Creator/BruceCoville): Each of the books in the series consists mainly of diary entries from the main non-human character, but also mixes in assorted papers from other characters, including letters, memos and those characters' own diary entries.

* ''Literature/NothingButTheTruthADocumentaryNovel'' by Avi is composed of transcripts, letters, and news articles about the story, as if collected by someone investigating what happened.

* ''Literature/LettersFromCamp'' and ''Literature/RegardingTheFountain'', two children's novels by Kate Klise, consist entirely of (fictional) newspaper clippings and letters. She also co-authored ''Literature/TrialByJournal'' in the same vein with her sister, Sarah.

* Creator/MichaelCrichton's novel ''Literature/EatersOfTheDead'' (later filmed as ''The Thirteenth Warrior'') is presented as a historical manuscript with critical commentary. The first three chapters are taken from the actual accounts of the historical medieval Arab diplomat, traveller and historian Ahmad ibn Fadlan; afterward, the story veers into fiction. Crichton himself has admitted he can't remember where the fiction starts and the historical part ends.

* ''Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'':

** An excerpt from ''The Boston Globe'' about an anonymous donation [[spoiler:from Dolores Claiborne, out of Vera Donovan's will]] of $30 million to the The New England Home for Little Wanderers orphanage, and that the 'guardian angel' who sent it is completely serious about their [[ThinkNothingOfIt anonymity]].
** From ''The Weekly Tide'', a section called "Notes from Little Tall". It informs us that [[spoiler:Dolores is [[StatuteOfLimitations free]] and expecting a visit from her son Joe Jr and Selena (for the first time in twenty years).]]