A book club unlike any other
A book club where your read isn't dictated, and a letter in the mail that isn't a bill. In a world that moves too quickly and always online, we want to take a minute to return to the slower and simpler joys of life.
Pick a book that sparks joy for the month and write a letter to your new friend about that book. Post the book and the letter. In return, you too will receive a book and a letter.
When the online noise becomes too much, join us here our dear Book Correspondents, for some old fashioned joy.
Dear Ellie,
with love ✦
posted with care
Sign up and share a little about what you love to read. Our tool will place you into a pod of three people with wonderfully compatible taste.
No reading list is assigned. Pick something you love and we are sure your reading companion will love it too. We have a digital correspondent who can check their history and whisper suggestions if you'd like them, or double check that they haven't read it.
Write a letter. Tuck it in the book. Add a sticky tab on your favourite pages. Post it. Then wait for your own book and letter to arrive to share the written gift with another.
You're placed in a quiet trio. Each person reads a book for one other and receives a book from the third. Everyone gives. Everyone receives. Nobody is left waiting.
After two months the pod closes gently. You're free to join a new one and meet new correspondents, or simply rest and return when the time feels right.
You only ever know who you're sending to. The rest of the pod stays wonderfully unknown — part of the charm.
Import your reading history from wherever you keep it — Goodreads, StoryGraph, Margins, or a simple CSV export. Our digital correspondent quietly learns what you and your reading companion have already read.
Then simply ask. It knows both your histories, spots your shared tastes, and suggests books neither of you have touched. No more guessing. No spoiled surprises.
We're opening our doors to the first wave of correspondents.
Become a correspondentFree to join · No reading list dictated · Just books and letters