Penguin published 11 of the list's titles, including Clarkson's trio and two top-5 novels, while HarperCollins scored 14 with a mixture of Ramsay, misery memoirs and R&J-friendly fiction.
As a young man in the 1960s Mr. Manguel was friendly with Jorge Luis Borges, and his slim memoir "With Borges" (2004) is a delight.
The two developed a friendly relationship, and Leahy wrote in his memoirs: "General Sir Hastings Ismay became my favorite, perhaps because his position closely paralleled my own".
"Roland Penrose: The Friendly Surrealist," is a curious and pleasing memoir by Roland's son Antony.
Part memoir and part criticism, this friendly book includes essays on poets canonical and contemporary, as well as lineated poem-games.
But this handsome ex-Marine and his friendly gas station have long been alluded to in Hollywood memoirs.
Yet he became respected by and friendly with many Tory politicians – he "helped" Heseltine write his memoirs – and a presenter, reporter and political pundit on BBC news and current affairs programmes.
In her memoirs, she reported that her meeting with Nightingale was friendly, with Nightingale asking "What do you want, Mrs. Seacole?
Appointed by Robert Stevens, Army secretary under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, to be a "permanent liaison" with the senator, Mr. Adams wrote in his memoirs that he understood his role was to seek a friendly, even "fawning" relationship with McCarthy.
Brooks, endowed with a speaking voice that veritably sings with comic invention, ought to do the world a favor and talk his memoirs out to someone who, like New York's interviewer, would serve as a friendly but noodging interlocutor.
In his memoirs, one of the guards at the Ipatiev House, Alexander Strekotin, remembered Anastasia as "very friendly and full of fun", while another guard said Anastasia was "a very charming devil!
