To Jane about 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

I really enjoyed this book as well. I found it witty and clever. The storyline is almost missing, the New-Yorker Helene Hanff wants more book from the Londoner bookseller Frank Noel. But the characters are very charming and one can easier see the affection developing between those two. Being an epistolary book, the tone is familiar, or rather it became familiar along with their friendship. I would recommend you the Persian Letters by Montesquieu. A Persian living in 17^th century Paris is sending letters back home. Those missives are full of culture clash and make us rethink certain westerner habits. It’s a fresh look on ourselves. In the same vein of epistolary literature, The dangerous liaisons by de Laclos is also set in 17^th century France. It narrates the love triangle between members of the aristocracy. Contrary to 84, Charing Cross Road, both novels are fiction, but like 84, Charing Cross Road, they are funny, witty and characters based.