Here are some books I have read in 2011/12 and strongly recommend:
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Recommended Books in 2013
Because I have had so little time to write here about books I have read …
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La Vie Rêvée d’Ernesto G
La Vie Rêvée d’Ernesto G, par Jean-Michel Guenassia. Published September 2012 by Albin Michel. Very …
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Five Books on Evolution and Human Cooperation
My interview and selection of Five Books is online at The Browser
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A Perfect Spy
A Perfect Spy, by John Le Carré. Published by Knopf in 1986, now available in …
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Zero Degrees of Empathy
Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New theory of Human Cruelty, by Simon Baron-Cohen. Published April …
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The White Tiger
The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga. Published in October 2008 by The Free Press. A …
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Memory: Fragments of a Modern History
Memory: Fragments of a Modern History, by Alison Winter. Published 2012 by Chicago University Press. …
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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. …
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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 …
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Haiti: The Aftershocks of History
Haiti: The Aftershocks of History. By Laurent Dubois. Published in January 2012 by Metropolitan Books. …
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Thinking Fast and Slow
Thinking Fast and Slow. By Daniel Kahneman. Published October 2011 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. …
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The Better Angels of our Nature
The Better Angels of Our Nature, by Steven Pinker. Published October 2011 by Viking Penguin. …
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Leningrad
Leningrad, by Anna Reid. Published August 2011 by Walker and Co. An account from letters …
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Le Club des Incorrigibles Optimistes
Le Club des Incorrigibles Optimistes, by Jean-Michel Guenassia. Published August 2009 by Albin Michel. Wonderful …
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A Pleur-Joie
A Pleur-Joie By Elvire de Brissac. Published 1969 by Grasset. The other other woman writes …