Here are some books I have read in 2011/12 and strongly recommend:

Recommended Books in 2013
Because I have had so little time to write here about books I have read …

La Vie Rêvée d’Ernesto G
La Vie Rêvée d’Ernesto G, par Jean-Michel Guenassia. Published September 2012 by Albin Michel. Very …

Five Books on Evolution and Human Cooperation
My interview and selection of Five Books is online at The Browser

A Perfect Spy
A Perfect Spy, by John Le Carré. Published by Knopf in 1986, now available in …

Zero Degrees of Empathy
Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New theory of Human Cruelty, by Simon Baron-Cohen. Published April …

The White Tiger
The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga. Published in October 2008 by The Free Press. A …

Memory: Fragments of a Modern History
Memory: Fragments of a Modern History, by Alison Winter. Published 2012 by Chicago University Press. …

Why Red Doesn’t Sound Like a Bell: Understanding the Feel of Consciousness
Why Red Doesn’t Sound Like a Bell: Understanding the Feel of Consciousness. By Kevin O’Regan. …

Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About our Everyday Deceptions
Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About our Everyday Deceptions. By Stephen …

Haiti: The Aftershocks of History
Haiti: The Aftershocks of History. By Laurent Dubois. Published in January 2012 by Metropolitan Books. …

Thinking Fast and Slow
Thinking Fast and Slow. By Daniel Kahneman. Published October 2011 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. …

The Better Angels of our Nature
The Better Angels of Our Nature, by Steven Pinker. Published October 2011 by Viking Penguin. …

Leningrad
Leningrad, by Anna Reid. Published August 2011 by Walker and Co. An account from letters …

Le Club des Incorrigibles Optimistes
Le Club des Incorrigibles Optimistes, by Jean-Michel Guenassia. Published August 2009 by Albin Michel. Wonderful …

A Pleur-Joie
A Pleur-Joie By Elvire de Brissac. Published 1969 by Grasset. The other other woman writes …