Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

What we're reading

Find your new favourite book or recommend one on our Book forum.

Good books in email/letter/text form?

34 replies

ThisMomentIsReal · 14/11/2021 00:27

When I was in my mid-teens, I enjoyed a series of books by Jaclyn Moriarty that were largely written in the form of letters and notes. I also read a series of books which were instant-message conversations, the Internet girls by Lauren Myracle. I enjoyed these formats, and that they are different to how most books are.
Does anyone have any recommendations of books in these formats that they enjoyed?
Thanks!

OP posts:
MilduraS · 15/11/2021 21:34

The Mitfords Letters between six sisters. I really enjoyed it.

Alltheprettyseahorses · 17/11/2021 08:03

Dracula

RomanMum · 17/11/2021 17:01

Another recommendation for Meet Me At The Museum.

ChristmasCalamity · 18/11/2021 14:10

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Really easy to get into and enjoyable.

StormyCornishSeas · 18/11/2021 14:13

@MumofSpud

Life On a refrigerator door Sad
This

Really sad but the way it's written is good and meets the objective of this thread

PenCreed · 20/11/2021 22:42

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn - not only is it in epistolary form but they progressively use fewer and fewer letters of the alphabet!

Attchments by Rainbow Rowell is emails and is quite fun as well.

Hazelnut5 · 22/11/2021 12:58

Notes to my Mother in Law, by Phyllida Law. It’s notes left by the actress Phyllida Law to her elderly deaf mother in law when she came to live with them. It’s a delightful book.

EBearhug · 22/11/2021 13:06

Meet Me At the Museum was serialised on Radio 4 a while back, with Tamsin Greig and Paul Ritter, which was great.

Hazelnut5 · 22/11/2021 14:09

I’d also recommend The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo about a 15 yo black girl in the US. The only place she can express herself is freely is in a private notebook where she writes poems. The story is her poems.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page