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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorMy Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams
Abigail Adams, John Adams · 528 pages
A collection of letters between Abigail and John Adams written from 1762 to 1801 covering topics of revolution, independence, and nation building, along with those that reflect their love for one another.
Letters of a Javanese Princess
Raden Adjeng Kartini · 250 pages
Gone with the Wind Letters
Margaret Mitchell · 480 pages
The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters
Charlotte Mosley · 848 pages
In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison
Jack Henry Abbott · 166 pages
This book collects Abbott's correspondence from prison with Norman Mailer, who provides an introduction. Abbott was a convict who had served the bulk of his life in various prisons across the country. The book is a lauded entry in the repertoire of prison literature.
Letters of E.B. White
E.B. White · 686 pages
Letters written between 1908 and 1976, which are at the same time a biography and the history of an era.
I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives
Caitlin Alifirenka, Martin Ganda · 392 pages
In this dual memoir, Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda recount how they became best friends and better people through letters. The coauthors are Martin Ganda and Liz Welch.
Autumn
Karl Ove Knausgard · 224 pages
The first entry in a planned four-part autobiographical series presents sensory letters written to the author's unborn daughter that describe his childhood and daily life with his wife and older children in rural Sweden.
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald · 416 pages
"Through his alcoholism and her mental illness, his career lows and her institutional confinement, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's devotion to each other endured for more than twenty-two years. Here now, for the first time, is the story of their love in the couple's own letters. Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda consists of more than 75 percent previously unpublished or out-of-print letters as well as ext
The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
Hunter S. Thompson · 720 pages
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien · 463 pages
Selected letters discuss his books, their meanings, his interests and also reveal his view of the world.
Grumbles from the Grave
Robert A. Heinlein · 310 pages
"A Del Rey book." A collection of letters to and from the author beginning in 1939 through his many years of fiction writing.
Letters
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 464 pages
A compilation of personal correspondence written over a sixty-year period offers insight into the iconic American author's literary personality, his experiences as a German POW, his struggles with fame, and the inspirations for his famous books.
Selected Letters, 1940-1956
Jack Kerouac · 656 pages
Dear Lupin...Letters to a Wayward Son
Roger Mortimer, Charles Mortimer
Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn
Henry VIII of England · 42 pages
The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss
Anderson Cooper, Gloria Vanderbilt · 320 pages
"A charming, intimate and fascinating collection of correspondence between broadcaster and #1 New York Times bestselling author Anderson Cooper and his mother, the celebrated Gloria Vanderbilt"--
A Life in Letters
John Steinbeck · 908 pages
"Surely his most interesting, plausibly his most memorable, and...arguably his best book" -The New York Times Book ReviewFor John Steinbeck, who hated the telephone, letter-writing was a preparation for work and a natural way for him to communicate his thoughts on people he liked and hated; on marriage, women, and children; on the condition of the world; and on his progress in learning his craft.
All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
Robert Hunt Rhodes, Elisha Hunt Rhodes
Letters & Papers from Prison
Dietrich Bonhoeffer · 437 pages
This new, greatly expanded version, while omitting nothing found in the earlier edition, shifts the emphasis of earlier editions on Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theological reflections to the private sphere of his life. His letters now appear in far greater detail, and show his daily concerns and the enormous warmth and humanity of the young German pastor who was executed by the Nazis in 1945 for his par
Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom
Ursula Nordstrom · 406 pages
Ursula Nordstrom was the director of Harper's Department of Books for Boys and Girls from 1940 to 1973 and "the single most creative force for innovation in children's book publishing in the United States during the twentieth century."--Jacket. This collection includes her correspondence with such authors as Laura Ingalls Wilder, E.B. White, Maurice Sendak, Janice May Udry, Russell Hoban, Clement