Curated Lists 2021

Juliet begins a remarkable correspondence with the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society members, learning about their island, their taste in books, and the impact the recent German occupation has had on their lives. Originally published 2007.
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Lady Susan is a short, epistolary novel that portrays a woman bent on the exercise of her own powerful mind and personality to the point of social self-destruction. Originally published 1871.
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A letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born.
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Gabi Hernandez chronicles her last year in high school in her diary: college applications, Cindy's pregnancy, Sebastian's coming out, the cute boys, her father's meth habit, and the food she craves. And best of all, the poetry that helps forge her identity.
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The situation is getting dire for Jews in Poland on the eve of World War II. Esther's father has fled to Cuba, and she is the first one to join him. It's heartbreaking to be separated from her beloved sister, so Esther promises to write down everything that happens until they're reunited.
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This charming classic love story, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, at the time, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London at 84, Charing Cross Road.
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When “Bernadette vanishes (…) Bee compiles email messages, official documents, and secret correspondence—creating a compulsively readable and surprisingly touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.”
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