Could you pick the 5 books that have shaped you most? Every week actress and avid reader Sonya Walger invites a guest to explore their five most formative books and how they affected their lives.
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Could you pick the 5 books that have shaped you most? Every week actress and avid reader Sonya Walger invites a guest to explore their five most formative books and how they affected their lives.
This week my guest is historian Dr. Amanda Foreman. Amanda is author of award-winning best sellers, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and A World on Fire as well as the BBC/Netflix series The Ascent of Woman. She writes a column for the Wall Street Journal and her next book, The World Made By Women is scheduled to be published later this year.
Amanda's Books
• A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1905
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, 1813
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1954-1955
• Britons: Forging the Nation 1707–1837 by Linda Colley, 1992
• In A Different Voice: Psychological Theory In Women's Development by Carol Gilligan, 1982
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Bookish with Sonya Walger
Could you pick the 5 books that have shaped you most? Every week actress and avid reader Sonya Walger invites a guest to explore their five most formative books and how they affected their lives.