Volume 3 Simon and Schuster 1969 This third and last volume of Bertrand Russell’s autobiography covers the last two decades of Russell's...

Simon & Schuster, 2018 Former US President Jimmy Carter talks about his religious faith and his work as Sunday school teacher,...

Faber & Faber 2018 Before my friend Sue joined the London public library to reduce her massive book budget, she let me take a look in her...

Ishiguro gave this Lecture in Stockholm on 7 December 2017, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017 for his «novels of...

Harvard University Press 2017 Talks by Toni Morrison delivered at Harvard University on "the literature of belonging". Forward by...

Volume 2 Atlantic - Little, Brown & Company, 1967 In Volume 2 of his autobiography, which is almost as fascinating as Vol 1, Russell...

Volume 1 Atlantic - Little Brown & Company, 1967 This is another of my random book choices found at a book giveaway. I picked it up...

Alfred A. Knopf, 2006 Riveting, well-written behind the scenes account of the War and Post-war reconstruction period in Iraq (2004)....

First published 1919 This work was written during World War I to help American soldiers understand French culture in comparison with...

Little, Brown Book Group, 2008 Couples guide to building loving relationships through Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT). Explores...

HarperCollins Publishers, 2016 Describes the “new sexual landscape” (hook-up culture, rape culture, drinking, consent, etc.) based on...

Random House, 2005 Autobiography. Might be worth a skim. I'm glad I read it. Some interesting thoughts on families (Fonda's mother killed...

Doubleday & Company Inc., 1959 Anthropological study of culture and how it affects our every move. Very interesting.

Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016 When Jenny Diski was a teenager with nowhere to go, she was taken in by Doris Lessing. Years later and...

Scribe Publications, 2015 Great book about what goes on in your stomach!  Easy to read science subject.  (Beware the first chapter or two...

First Published Hogarth Press, 1929 Asked to give a lecture on Women and Fiction at Cambridge University in 1928, Woolf set out to...

Jonathan Cape (UK), Knopf (US), 2011 Engrossing story and characters. My bookclub read this and none of us could figure out why the...

Jonathan Cape, 2005 Intriguing historical fiction centered around a court case involving Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and a lawyer named George...

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015 Hilarious satire on current racial conditions in the USA. The main character is on trial in front of the...

Random House 1952 "In a letter to (Richard) Wright August 18, 1945, Ellison poured out his anger toward (Communist) party leaders for...