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by Helene Hanff
In 1949 Helene Hanff, a New York writer with more taste than money, posts a list of out-of-print books to a shop at 84, Charing Cross Road in London. What comes back is twenty years of letters between her and a reserved bookseller named Frank Doel, trading rare editions, food parcels through the rationing years, and a friendship neither of them ever quite names. All true, and barely a hundred pages.
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Literary
Allen Levi
A mysterious traveler named Theo drifts into a small Georgia town and quietly changes the people who take him in. Allen Levi's debut is unhurried and gentle — a meditation on friendship, grief, and grace with no villain to speak of, just ordinary kindness given room to matter.
ContemporaryLiterary
Virginia Evans
Sybil Van Antwerp, a retired lawyer in her seventies, has written letters all her life: to her brother, her friends, the authors she admires and the people who have wronged her. Told entirely through that correspondence, her story slowly reveals the grief she has never spoken of. A quiet, deeply moving novel about the written word and making peace late in life.
ContemporaryLiterary
Megha Majumdar
In a near-future Kolkata strained by climate crisis, a mother about to leave for America with her small daughter has the family's papers stolen, and the young man who took them has a hungry family of his own. Over one tense week, two households fight to protect their children. An Oprah's Book Club pick.
