Book Recommendations

July 2022 Book Recommendations

A curated list of books and literary classics for your reading pleasure by David Bruce Smith Publications.

Book of the Week for June 23, 2022

My Memoir by Edith Bolling Wilson

The life of President Woodrow Wilson’s second wife –with some “convenient” omissions.

Beach Reads

Summer 2022 Reading Recommendations

Book of the Week for June 10, 2022

Dean & Me (a Love Story) by Jerry Lewis and James Kaplan

Sharing fame, fortune, fraternity, and failure with Dean Martin.

Book of the Week for June 06, 2022

Off Stage by Betty Comden

Early success with Singin' in the Rain and On the Town birthed a sixty-year collaboration--the longest in musical history.

June 2022 Book Recommendations

A curated list of books and literary classics for your reading pleasure by David Bruce Smith Publications.

Book of the Week for May 29, 2022

All Of A Kind Family by Sydney Taylor

A quintet of books about the adventures of a Jewish family in New York; before and after World War I.

Book of the Week for May 23, 2022

Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion

An unlucky actress challenged by bleak circumstances, pivots to alcohol and drugs for comfort.

Book of the Week for May 16, 2022

Live Alone And Like It by Marjorie Hillis

Tips about interior design, diet, dress, entertaining, selecting hobbies and saving; living meaningfully without a husband. Written in 1936, the...

Book of the Week for May 09, 2022

How I Got To Be Perfect by Jean Kerr

More domestic humor from the author of Please Don’t Eat The Daisies, and The Snake Has All The Lines.

May 2022 Book Recommendations

A curated list of books and literary classics for your reading pleasure by David Bruce Smith Publications.

Book of the Week for April 29, 2022

Little Birds: Erotica by Anaïs Nin

The moods and manifestations of passion, by the French novelist and diarist.