I think Larry BS meant he would recommend Plutarch's Lives of the Greeks & Romans, as well, echoing Larry Richette.
Piffka. thanks I overlooked one of the larry's.
In the library world, you can't go wrong with cookbooks and bios. Got a lot of both to do right now:
'De Niro: a biography' by John Baxter
'The pianist' by Wladyslaw Szpilman
'Forget you had a daughter' by Sandra Gregory (heroin smuggler jailed in Thailand)
'My life with Lew' by Jenny Hoad (he was an Australian tennis player)
'A boy's life' by Jack Davis (Indigenous Australian author and playwright)
'Mean streets, kind heart: the Father Chris Riley story'
'My story' by Dave Pelzer
'Samuel Pepys: the unequalled self' by Claire Tomalin
'Running with scissors' by Augusten Burroughs
'A song flung up to heaven' by Maya Angelou
'Sir Elton' by Philip Norman
'Cecil Beaton' by Hugo Vickers
'Beside myself' by Anthony Sher
'Long loop home: a memior' by Peter Wells
and a biographical dictionary of film!
The Diary of Anne Frank is a moving autobiography that is as poignant today as when it was written.
Haven't finished. Also doing the bios of:
Katherine Knight (Australian killer & cannibal)
Quentin Crisp (one of the stately old homos of Britain)
Kerryn & Jackie (hi-profile lesbians)
Rory & Ita (parents of Roddy Doyle)
Peter Sellers
Anna Wood (tragic young Ecstasy death)
Ten Australian Prime Ministers
Nipper Read (he busted the Krays)
Kay Danes (wrongly arrested in Thailand)
He's my daughter (mother on son's sex change)
Galileo's daughter
Robert Sabbag (smuggler)
Mark Bingham (Flight 93)
Emily Prager (of her adopted child Wuhu)
Spike Milligan
Zoya's story (Afghan woman)
and there's more on it's way!
