Helene Hanff'84 Charing Cross Road' is a charming record of bibliophilia, cultural difference, and imaginative sympathy. For 20 years, an outspoken New York writer and a rather more restrained London...

Marie BrennerA TOP TEN FAVORITE BOOK OF THE YEAR--MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMESA ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH BEST MEMOIR OF THE YEARINCLUDES AN AUTHOR INTERVIEW WITH LESLEY STAHLMarie Brenner's extraordinary...

Tim ParksTim Parks' first bestseller, "Italian Neighbors," chronicled his initiation into Italian society and cultural life. Reviewers everywhere hailed it as a bravissimo performance. Now he turns to his children...

Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic RevolutionSattareh Farman FarmaianAn intimate and honest chronicle of the everyday life of Iranian women over the past...

Aharon Appelfeld   When Aharon Appelfeld was seven years old the Nazis occupied Czernowitz, his hometown. They penned the Jews into a ghetto and eventually sent whoever had not been...

David Sedaris   David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding....

Natan Sharansky   Temperamentally and intellectually, Natan Sharansky is a man very much like many of us—which makes this account of his arrest on political grounds, his trial, and ten...

Frances MayesFrances Mayes - widely published poet, gourmet cook and travel writer - opens the door on a wondrous new world when she buys and restores an abandoned villa in...

Joseph R OwenColder Than Hell: A Marine Rifle Company at Chosin Reservoir"A MUST READ . . . This book [is] one of the best on that war in Korea. ....

AA GillEvery weekend A.A. Gill entertains readers of the Sunday Times with his biting observations on television and his unsparing, deeply knowledgeable restaurant reviews. He is one of a tiny...

Karl Ove KnausgardHaving left his first wife, Karl Ove Knausgaard is struck by an overwhelming urge to get away, and he settles in Stockholm. Lonely and depressed, he strikes up...

Danniella WestbrookEven when she was at the top of her fame as a star of East Enders, behind the scenes Danniella was tearing her life apart. For a while she...