Readalikes: If you enjoyed September's selection . . .

If you enjoyed Dear Mr. You by Mary-Louise Parker, then you might also like these books and films suggested by discussion group members, some for their use of the epistolary format or focus on letters as historical documents and some for their use of verse form or extremely short form:

• Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel
• Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore
• 84, Charing Cross Road book by Helene Hanff and movie with Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins
• Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
• The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
• Art and the Intellect by Harold Taylor
• The Lake House movie with Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves
• Brown Girl, Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
• The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis
• Ninety-Nine Stories of God by Joy Williams