Next I'll offer
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff. This is a short memoir and sounds like it'd be a fun read. For some reason this doesn't seem to be available as an English-language ebook in the US or UK despite that being its original language and despite there being Spanish and French ebook versions available. I'm still going to nominate it though because it is so short so reading a pbook wouldn't be so major, and it's available as an audiobook as well (in English, heh).
Goodreads .
Preview . 112 Pages . 1970 . U.S.
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This charming classic, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share a winsome, sentimental friendship based on their common love for books. Their relationship, captured so acutely in these letters, is one that will grab your heart and not let go.
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