Best Friends Forever - Irene S. Levine [103]
• The survey tapped women from around the world and from many different walks of life.
APPENDIX B
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER READING
“To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.”
—CHINESE SAYING
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”—MARK TWAIN
Here are some of my favorite books on friendship.
NONFICTION
Apter, Terri and Ruthellen Josselson. Best Friends: The Pleasures and Perils of Girls’ and Women’s Friendships. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1998.
Barash, Susan Shapiro. Tripping the Prom Queen: The Truth About Women and Rivalry. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2006.
Carol, Joy. The Fabric of Friendship: Celebrating the Joy, Mending the Tears in Women’s Relationships. Notre Dame: Sorin Books, 2006.
DePaulo, Bella. Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2007.
Goodman, Ellen and Patricia O’Brien. I Know Just What You Mean: The Power of Friendship in Women’s Lives. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
Grief, Geoffrey L. The Buddy System: Understanding Male Friendships. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Hartley-Brewer, Elizabeth. Making Friends: A Guide to Understanding and Nurturing Your Child’s Friendships. Cambridge: DaCapo Press, 2009.
Horchow, Roger and Sally Horchow. The Art of Friendship: 70 Simple Rules for Making Meaningful Connections. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005.
Isaacs, Florence. Toxic Friends, True Friends: How Your Friends Can Make or Break Your Health, Happiness, Family, and Career. New York: William Morrow, 1999.
James, Sara and Ginger Mauney. The Best of Friends: Two Women, Two Continents, and One Enduring Friendship. New York: William Morrow, 2007.
Lavinthal, Andrea and Jessica Rozler. Friend or Frenemy? A Guide to the Friends You Need and the Ones You Don’t. New York: Harper Collins, 2008.
Mooney, Nan. I Can’t Believe She Said That! Why Women Betray Other Women at Work. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2005.
Paul, Marla. The Friendship Crisis: Finding, Making and Keeping Friends When You’re Not a Kid Anymore. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2004.
Offill, Jenny and Elissa Schappell (Eds.). The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women’s True-Life Tales of Friendships That Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away. New York: Doubleday, 2005.
Pryor, Liz. What Did I Do Wrong? When Women Don’t Tell Each Other the Friendship Is Over. New York: Free Press, 2006.
Rawlins, William. Friendship Matters: Communication, Dialectics, and the Life Course. New York: Aldine De Gruyter, 1992.
Rubin, Lillian B. Just Friends: The Role of Friendships in Our Lives. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.
Sheehy, Sandy. Connecting: The Enduring Power of Female Friendships. New York: William Morrow, 2000.
Spencer, Liz and Ray Pahl. Rethinking Friendship: Hidden Solidarities Today.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006.
Yager, Jan. When Friendship Hurts: How to Deal with Friends Who Betray, Abandon or Wound You. New York: Fireside, 2002.
Zaslow, Jeffrey. The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship. New York: Gotham Books, 2009.
CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Clayton, Meg Waite. The Wednesday Sisters: A Novel. New York: Ballantine Books, 2008.
Green, Jane. Second Chance. New York: Plume, 2008.
Jacobs, Kate. Friday Night Knitting Club. New York: Berkley Trade, 2008.
Packer, Ann. Songs Without Words. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
Rendell, Joanne. The Professors’ Wives’ Club. New York: Penguin Group, 2008.
Scotch, Allison Winn. Time of My Life: A Novel. New York: Shaye Areheart Books, 2008.
Trollope, Joanna. Friday Nights. New York: Bloomsbury, 2008.
Volk, Patricia. To My Dearest Friends. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
Weiner, Jennifer. Best Friends Forever: A Novel. New York: Atria Books, 2009.
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