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Well-Read Episode #49 - Epistolary Novels

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We’re diving into epistolary novels, one of our favorite book formats (and, it turns out, are more than just a book of letters!). As always, we’ll end with what we’re reading this week.

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

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Ann’s picks:

  • Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable by Mark Dunn
  • Sorcery & Cecelia, or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot: Being the Correspondence of Two Young Ladies of Quality Regarding Various Magical Scandals in London and the Country by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
    • – Patricia C. Wrede books
    – Caroline Stevermer books
    – Jane Austen books
    – Cecelia and Kate series by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
    – Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
  • Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence by Nick Bantock
    • – Griffin & Sabine series by Nick Bantock
    – Morning Star series by Nick Bantock
    – The Pharos Gate: Griffin & Sabine’s Lost Correspondence by Nick Bantock
    – Nick Bantock books

    Halle’s picks:

    • Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
    – Rainbow Rowell books
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
    • – We Need to Talk About Kevin (film)
  • Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
    • – Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel
    – Arrival (film)
    – 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

    What We’re Reading This Week:

    • Ann: The Quick by Lauren Owen
    – The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  • Halle: The Garden of Small Beginnings by Abbi Waxman
    • ...more
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