Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

This thread is to mark your completion of the September challenge for the prompt: "a book of letters." You can join in with the group read of The Color Purple or pick a different book to satisfy this challenge.

Please include the following:

Title:
Author:
Were the letters in your chosen book fictional or real?
Does this style of storytelling work for you?
Would you recommend?

No other posts in this thread please!

Title: The Color Purple
Author: Alice Walker
Were the letters in your chosen book fictional or real? fictional
Does this style of storytelling work for you? yes
Would you recommend? Absolutely.

Title: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Author: Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
Were the letters in your chosen book fictional or real? Fictional
Does this style of storytelling work for you? Yes - I have discovered several epistolary novels or memoirs that are amongst my favorite reads ever.
Would you recommend? Yes yes yes!

Title: Letters from Skye
Author: Jessica Brockmole
Were the letters in your chosen book fictional or real? Fictional
Does this style of storytelling work for you? yes
Would you recommend? Yes

Title: The Color Purple and Paved With Good Intentions: A Demon's Road map to Your Soul
Author: Alice Walker and C.S. Lewis
Were the letters in your chosen book fictional or real? Fictional in both.
Does this style of storytelling work for you? Yep, I actually quite enjoy it.
Would you recommend? I would recommend both of these books!

Title: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Author: Stephen Chbosky
Were the letters in your chosen book fictional or real? Fictional
Does this style of storytelling work for you? Yes
Would you recommend? Yes

Title: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Author: Stephen Chbosky
Were the letters in your chosen book fictional or real? real
Does this style of storytelling work for you? Yes
Would you recommend? No

Title: Ella Minnow Pea: a Novel in Letters
Author: Mark Dunn
Were the letters in your chosen book fictional or real? Fictional
Does this style of storytelling work for you? Normally not so much, I like the creativity involved in creating a full narrative with enough detail in a limited format but I often find it strained or lacking. However this book was awesome, I thought it was such an interesting concept and i really appreciated how much thought and planning went into contracting it!
Would you recommend? Yeah, it was a cool concept both in terms of the story and the execution. It's also a relatively short and easy read.

Title: Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
Author: Mark Dunn
Were the letters in your chosen book fictional or real? Fictional
Does this style of storytelling work for you? Yes, I've read a few other epistolary novels this year and liked all of them, including The Color Purple
Would you recommend? Yes!

I finished last night, just barely in time! The only reason it took so long was because the book I intended to use didn't make it from the library in time. Luckily, my last book of the month ended up consisting at least partially of letters so I decided to count it.

Title: The Forgotten Daughter
Author: Renita D'Silva
Were the letters in your chosen book fictional or real?: One third of the story was written in diary entries, one third as letters that were written then read out loud to another character, and the third was just prose. The entire thing was fictional.
Does this style of storytelling work for you?: Generally, yes although it depends exactly how it is handled. If a book is going to be formatted as letters, then they should actually feel like real letters and not just normal prose with a "Dear X" attached to the front.
Would you recommend?: Yes, it was a good book. I wouldn't necessarily consider it a favourite, but I liked it.

Title: The Color Purple
Author: Alice Walker
Were the letters in your chosen book fictional or real? Fictional
Does this style of storytelling work for you? Probably, depending on the story.
Would you recommend? Maybe. I wasn't a fan until the letters from Nettie in Africa started being read.

Title: Letters from Skye
Author: Jessica Brockmole
Were the letters in your chosen book fictional or real?: Fictional
Does this style of storytelling work for you?: Yes, it did for this book. Though at times, I found myself wanting to know more than just what was represented in the letters.
Would you recommend?: Yes, it was a quick read, though based on the reviews, it seems like several people hate it because it does include some adultery.