LESSING RULES! My very favorite author in the whole wide world (this one, at least) is Doris Lessing. If you haven't read her, please do. She has a remarkable mind and her ability to communicate her insights is unbelievable. Below are some of her gifts to us.

African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe
Synopsis: British author Lessing recounts visits to her homeland, Zimbabwe, 25 years after her exile from old Southern Rhodesia for opposing the minority white government. "(Lessing's) insight into and sympathy for human beings of both races and all conditions is persuasive and affecting."--The New Yorker.
Briefing for a Descent into Hell
Canopus in Argos: Archives
 A brilliant analysis of our civilisation These 5 novels are difficult reading but well worth the effort. Doris Lessing has taken her uncanny observation of the treachery of mankind and translated it into a narrative as presented by beings from Canopus. What they think of us, how they've influenced us. "Shikasta..." is the most harsh, and the most accurate and my favourite of the set. "The Marriages..." is a beautiful fairy tale. "The Sirian Experiments..." is an alternative view of "Shikasta" and a brilliant depiction of humankind. "The Representative..." is a beautifully written fantasy of a dying planet. "The Sentimental Agents" is a scathing, excellent commentary on the arrogance of rhetoric. Ours, of course... While these novels appear to be science fiction, they really are not. They are "Space Fiction" and are a thought-provoking, sometimes beautiful, but always brilliant view of our world and possible others... "

The Diaries of Jane Somers
Doris Lessing: Conversations
The Fifth Child
Synopsis: Harriet and David Lovatt face a frightening dilemma: how to love a monstrosity they have brought into the world--hideous in appearance, insatiably hungry, abnormally strong and brutal. A horror story comparable to Rosemary's Baby by the internationally acclaimed author.
Going Home
The Golden Notebook
Expert Editor's Recommended Book, 09/18/96: A feminist landmark, this big, ambitious novel tells the story of writer Anna Wulf and the crises she faces in her personal, political and professional life. Confounded by writer's block, the ferociously independent Wulf explores her situation in four notebooks, one for each of the strands in her life; the golden one is the one in which, struggling to retain her sanity, she brings these strands together.

The Good Terrorist
Synopsis: A powerful contemporary novel about a group of would-be terrorists in London that Susan Brownmiller in Newsday called "a bone-tingling narrative that should stand as the crowning achievement of Lessing's distinguished career."

The Grass Is Singing
In Pursuit of the English: A Documentry
Landlocked : A Novel (The Children of Violence, Book 4)
Love, Again: A Novel
The first novel from Doris Lessing in more than seven years, Love, Again is the story of a sixty-five-year-old woman who falls in love. Or rather, Sarah Durham falls into a state of love, which is another country altogether, and struggles to maintain her sanity while there. Closer to The Golden Notebook in its ironies and complexities than anything Doris Lessing has written since, this is a brilliant anatomy of love -- of longing, grief, an older woman's sexuality, of all the experiences of love available to a woman in her lifetime -- from a master of human psychology who is also one of the most daring writers of fiction at work today.

Synopsis: Lessing's first novel in seven years is nothing less than a publishing event. When 65-year-old Sarah Durham falls in love with a 28-year-old actor, and later with a more suitable 35-year-old director, she finds herself in a condition she thought the province of younger women. A brilliant anatomy of love, longing, desire, and sexuality in older women, Love, Again will raise the consciousness of readers today and leave its mark on future generations of women.

Synopsis: Widowed for many years, and with grown children, a 65-year-old woman falls in love again and struggles to maintain her sanity. Finding herself in a state of longing and desire that she had thought was the province of younger women, Sarah is compelled to explore and examine her own personal history of love, from her earliest childhood desires to her most recent obsessions. --This text refers to the paperback edition of this title.

The Memoirs of a Survivor
Synopsis: A reissue of a Doris Lessing novel set in the near future that combines both her visionary and her realistic writing.

Mercury
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
A Proper Marriage (The Children of Violence, Book 2
The Real Thing : Stories and Sketches
Synopsis: Lessing's collection of keenly observed stories and sketches affirms that she is one of the most penetrating and masterful storytellers of our time. Revealing complexities behind the most conventional relationships, Lessing once again "proves herself an adept and moving chronicler of contemporary life" (Miami Herald).

A Ripple from the Storm : A Novel (The Children of Violence, Book 3)
The Summer Before the Dark
Under My Skin : Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 (My Autobiography, To 1949, Vol 1 1949)
Synopsis: Lessing has always incorporated her life into her fiction, but not until the eagerly awaited publication of Under My Skin did her readers have direct access to the fascinating and tumultuous life story of this most celebrated literary talent.

Doris Lessing Reads the Old Chief Mshlanga from African Stories/Audio Cassette
The Fifth Child (Isis Series/4 Audio Cassettes)
Gatos Muy Distinguidos/Particularly Cats
No Witchcraft for Sale & the New Man
Stories by Doris May Lessing
No Witchcraft for Sale and the New Man from African Stories
Old Chief Mshlanga (Doris Lessing Reads)
The Old Chief Mshlanga from African Stories
Through the Tunnel (Creative Short Stories)
Vacationing at the seashore, a young boy's endurance is tested to the limit when he tries to swim through an underwater tunnel.
African Laughter : Four Visits to Zimbabwe/Limited Edition