Looking for books with the "found manuscript" trope

By Precheck-Bookish10

This is a trope I thought was really interesting, but I’m kind of at a loss for how to name it. I don’t mean epistolary stuff, and not really books in journal format either (although maybe it overlaps?). The ones I liked most were: - *No Longer Human* (Osamu Dazai) - *Steppenwolf* (Hermann Hesse) From what I can tell, the author sets up a “here’s how I got this thing” kind of foreword, and then after that you just get the manuscript itself—no real extra explanation, no trying to break it down, and no judging the person who wrote it in the first place. If anyone has recommendations for stuff like that, I’d love to hear them. Any genre is fine.