The Correspondent Read-Alikes

Updated February 20, 2026
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Must I go : a novel
Li, Yiyun
Paper Book
"One of our major novelists" (Salman Rushdie) tells the story of a woman reflecting on her uncompromising life, and the life of a former lover, in this provocative novel. "Yiyun Li is one of my favorite writers, and Must I Go is an extraordinary book."--Meg...
Olive Kitteridge
Strout, Elizabeth.
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE * The beloved first novel featuring Olive Kitteridge, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of My Name is Lucy Barton and the Oprah's Book Club pick Olive, Again "Fiction lovers, remember this name: Olive Kitteridge<...
Some bright nowhere : a novel
Packer, Ann
AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK "Extraordinary. Books like this are why I love reading. This novel about marriage and friendship and life and dying is a marvel." --Elin Hilderbrand "Profound and moving and real."--Andrew Sean Greer "...
The heart of winter : a novel
Evison, Jonathan
Paper Book
Abe Winter and Ruth Warneke were never meant to be together - at least if you ask Ruth. Yet their catastrophic blind date in college evolved into a seventy-year marriage and a life on a farm on Bainbridge Island with their hens and beloved Labrador Megs. Through the years, the Winters have fallen in...
How does that make you feel, Magda Eklund? : a novel
Montague, Anna
Paper Book
A funny and moving novel about love, loss, and new beginnings found on an unlikely road trip Most days, Magda is fine. She has her routines. She has her anxious therapy patients, who depend on her to cure their bad habits. She has her longtime colleagues, whose playful bickering she...
The collected regrets of Clover
Brammer, Mikki
Paper Book
USA Today Bestseller * Best Book of 2023 by NPR "This weird, lovely and sweetly satisfying novel [is] engaging and accessible...Clover's emergence from a shuttered life is moving enough to elicit tears, and Brammer's take on death and grieving is profound...
We all want impossible things : a novel
Newman, Catherine
Paper Book
Look for Wreck, the new novel by Catherine Newman--a deeply moving story of laughter and heart, about marriage, family, and what happens when life doesn't go as planned--Coming October 2025.  "Catherine Newman sees the heartbreak and comedy of life with wisdom and...
Swimming lessons
Fuller, Claire
Paper Book
From Desmond Elliot Prize winner Claire Fuller comes a family mystery about a woman's disappearance and her daughter's search for answers. In this spine-tingling tale Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but she never sends them. Instead she...
On earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel
Vuong, Ocean
Paper Book
A New York Times bestseller * Nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction * Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century ...
Violeta : a novel
Allende, Isabel
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * This sweeping novel from the author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century. "An immersive saga...
Meet me at the museum
Youngson, Anne
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award "The charmer of the summer." --NPR "Warm-hearted, clear-minded, and unexpectedly spellbinding, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to savor." --Annie Barrows, co-author of The Guernsey...
Dear Mrs. Bird : a novel
Pearce, A. J.
Paper Book
This charming, irresistible debut novel set in London during World War II about a young woman who longs to be a war correspondent and inadvertantly becomes a secret advice columnist is "a jaunty, heartbreaking winner" (People)--for fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie...
The letter carrier : a novel
Giannone, Francesca
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * What would happen if you finally met your soul mate--but they were married to someone else? In a novel that has become a bestselling phenomenon in Italy, The Letter Carrier shows how a little town in southern Italy might be just like every town-...
Cape Fever
Davids, Nadia
"It's a stunner." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) From award-winning South African author Nadia Davids comes a gothic psychological thriller set in the 1920s, where a young maid finds herself entangled with the spirits of a decaying manor and the secrets of its enigmatic...
The prayer box
Wingate, Lisa.
Ebook
ECPA Christian Book Award Finalist, Christy Award Finalist, Christianity Today Book Award Finalist! "THE PRAYER BOX is a masterpieceof story and skill."-- Debbie Macomber, NYT #1 Bestselling Author "A good option for fans of Nicholas Sparksand...
Snow Road Station : a novel
Hay, Elizabeth
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the Giller Prize-winning author comes a novel, witty and wise, about thwarted ambition, unrealized dreams, the enduring bonds of female friendship, and love's capacity to surprise us at any age. "Joyous and lyrical." --Mary Lawson "[In Snow Road...
A keeper : a novel
Norton, Graham
Paper Book
From Graham Norton--the BAFTA Award-winning Irish television host and author of the "charming debut novel" (New York Journal of Books) Holding--a masterly and haunting tale of secrets and ill-fated love follows a young woman as she returns to Ireland after her mother's death and...
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