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...

Secker and Warburg, 1959 A beautiful and heart breaking story of the friendship between two high school boys. Jealous of his best...

Flamingo, 1999 Didn’t finish. Science fiction, found boring. Will soon post some of Lessing's works I find brilliant.

‎Alfred A. Knopf, 1973 Not motivating, hard to finish.

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1985 Good.

Flamingo, 2000 Seems slapped together, parts poorly written. But it could be my brain which is slapped together! Ben in the World is the...

First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, 1990 Short stories. A revelation for me. Beautiful writing. True. Rhythmic. Pay attention, if you...

Chatto & Windus, 1971 Comparing Murdoch with Lessing... Scenes which made me think of Doris Lessing: -Mrs. Carberry vs retarded son in...

1881 Twain criticizes old England and humans in general through the eyes of a child. Very enjoyable. Recommended to me by my son's friend...