she came to stay

I share my birthday with some rather dapper gentlemen, but for a long time I was equally proud to have been born on the same day as one special bad ass complex chick - Simone de Beauvoir. Years went by before I was disabused of this notion and came to accept the fact that while we may have been born in the same general calendaric vicinity, I'm 8, she's 9.

Via Campaign for the American Reader comes a list from Lisa Appignanesi of the top 10 books by and about my almost birthday-mate.