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Recommended Books

Some books suggested by our guests & some of our personal favorites:

  • Auken, S, I Love This Game (recommended by Brigitta Fischer)
  • Berkowitz, D & Manley, B, Precision Today (guest)
  • Bird, D, the 'Abbot' series (recommended by Jessica Larsson)
  • Bird, D & Anthias, T Winning Suit Contact Leads (recommended by Signe Buus Thomsen)
  • Bird, D & Anthias, T Winning NoTrump Leads (recommended by Signe Buus Thomsen)
  • Brock, S & Horton, M (editors), The Complete Book of Bols Bridge Tips (mentioned by Andrew Mill) (guest)
  • Brock, S, Leading Questions in Bridge (guest)
  • Brogeland, B, Bridge at the Edge, (recommended by Nicolai Heiberg-Evenstad)
  • Burn, D, How to Survive Your First Bridge Tournament (guest)
  • Caprera, D, Sleeping on the Couch (guest)
  • Christie, Agatha, Cards on the Table popular fiction
  • Cohen, L, My Favorite 52  paperback or Kindle (recommended by Adam Grossack)
  • Cohen, L, To Bid or Not to Bid: The LAW of Total Tricks (ghost written by Kate McCallum, mentioned by Kerri Sanborn) 
  • Cohen, L, Tricks of the Trade, (recommended by Sock Ngin Tan)
  • Colchamiro, M, How You Can Play Like an Expert (guest)
  • Darvis, R & de Villiers Hart, N, Right Through the Pack (recommended by Sally Brock, Anam Tebha, Patty Tucker) ... Right Through the Pack Again/Klinger
  • DeWitt, H, The English Understand Wool, hardcover, Kindle
  • Dormer, A, Dormer on Deduction (recommended by Susan Humphries)
  • Erichsen, H, Murder by Natural Causes (guest)
  • Forquet, P, Bridge with the Blue Team (recommended by Sarah Bell)
  • Glauert, M & Kelsey, H.W, Bridge Odds for Practical Players (recommended by David Caprera)
  • Goren, C, Goren's Bridge Complete (mentioned by Zia Mahmood)
  • Granovetter, M, I Shot My Bridge Partner (guest)
  • Granovetter, M & Granovetter, P, A Switch in Time (guest)
  • Hamman, B, At the Table: The Autobiography of the World's #1 Rated Bridge Player (recommended by Tijana Brkljajic) (guest)
  • Hans, S, Battling the Best (guest)
  • Hasney, C, Bridge Simplicity (friend of the show)
  • Hayden Truscott, D, Winning Declarer Play (recommended by Larry Cohen)
  • Helgemo,G, & Bird, D, Bridge With Imagination
  • Helgemo,G, & Tislevol,G, Helgemo's World of Bridge
  • Izdebski, W, Klinger, R & Krzemien, R, Deadly Defence (recommended by Richard Plackett)
  • Jones, L, The Gist of Bid Whist
  • Juhl, J & Fredin, P, Master of Bridge Psychology: Inside the Remarkable Mind of Peter Fredin (recommended by Nabil Edgtton, Susan, Humphries, Liam Milne)
  • Kantar, E, Bridge for Dummies (recommended by David Caprera)
  • Kantar, E. Kantar for the Defense (recommended by Joel Wooldridge)
  • Kantar, E, Take All Your Chances (recommended in general by Janice Seamon-Molson, Patty Tucker)
  • Kantar, E, Test Your Bridge Play Vol. 1 (recommended by Patricia Herrera)
  • Kantar, E, Test Your Bridge Play Vol. 2 (recommended by Patricia Herrera)
  • Karpin, F Bridge Strategy at Trick One (recommended by Pamela Nisbett)
  • Kelsey, H, Killing Defense at Bridge (recommended by Mihaela Balint, Peter Hollands, Ella Jacob, Bronia Jenkins, Jeff Meckstroth, Janice Seamon-Molson, Barnet Shenkin, Jaggy Shivdasani, Luc Tijssen, Gavin Wolpert)
  • Kelsey, H, Logical Bridge Play (recommended by Gavin Wolpert)
  • Kelsey, H, Simple Squeezes (recommended by Alon Apteker)
  • Kelsey, H, Test Your Communications (recommended by Susan Humphries)
  • Kelsey, H, Test Your Defensive Play (recommended by Susan Humphries)
  • Kelsey, H, Test Your Trump Control (recommended by Susan Humphries)
  • Kelsey, H, Winning Card Play (recommended by Signe Buus Thomsen)
  • Kelsey, H, & Ottlik, G, Adventures in Card Play (recommended by Christian Bakke, Sarah Bell, David Caprera, Simon de Wijs, Marie Eggeling, Ella Jacob, Antonio Palma, Jerome Rombaut, Gavin Wolpert)
  • Klinger, R, Bridge Basics (recommended by Alon Apteker)
  • Lawrence, M, How to Read Your Opponents' Cards (recommended by Patricia Herrera, Christina Lund Madsen, Marie Eggeling, Antonio Palma)
  • Lawrence, M, Judgment at Bridge (recommended by Carol Stanton)
  • Lebel, M, La Majeure Cinquième (recommended by Bernard Pascal)
  • Le Dentu, J, Bridge: Triumphs and Disasters (mentioned by Ciaran Coyne)
  • Leve, G, Encyclopedia of Card Play Techniques (recommended by Justin Mill)
  • Love, C.E, Bridge Squeezes Complete (recommended by Kismet Fung)
  • Mahmood, Z, (with David Burn), Around the World in 80 Hands (guest)
  • Mahmood, Z, Bridge My Way (guest) (recommended by Brigitta Fischer, Dessy Malakova, Jaggy Shivdasani)
  • Mahmood, Z, Bridge: A Love Story (guest) (recommended by Nikica Sver)
  • Martens, Krzysztof ... Bidding Like Music (hand evaluation), Owl, Fox & Spider (deceptive plays), Practical Aspects of Declarer Play (recommended in general by Katarzyna Dufrat, Jacek Kalita, Michal Klukowski)
  • McCallum, K & Woolsey, K, KK Relay (guest)
  • McPherson, E, The Backwash Squeeze and Other Impossible Feats
  • Miles, M, Defensive Signals (recommended by Liam Milne) 
  • Mollo, V, Bridge in the Menagerie (recommended by Andrew Black, Simon de Wijs, James Holzhauer, Jessica Larsson, Agustin Madala, Nevena Senior, Jerome Rombaut, Michael Rosenberg, Patty Tucker)
  • Mollo/Gardener, Card Play Technique (recommended by Helen Erichsen, Audrey Grant, Susanna Gross and Barnet Shenkin)
  • Punch, S, The Art of Becoming a Top Player (guest)
  • Punch, S, Bridge at the Top: Behind the Screens (guest)
  • Reese, T, Begin Bridge with Reese (recommended by Andrew Robson)
  • Reese, T, Play These Hands With Me (recommended by David Gold, Jaggy Shivdasani)
  • Reese, T, Reese on Play (recommended by David Burn)
  • Rigal, B, Breaking the Bridge Rules (guest)
  • Robson, A & Segal, O, Partnership Bidding at Bridge (guest)
  • Rodwell, E, The Rodwell Files (recommended by Nicola Bateman, James Coutts, Brigitta Fischer, Peter Hollands, Richard Plackett)
  • Rosenberg, M, Bridge, Zia ... and Me (guest)
  • Roth, D, Don't Be Fooled! Countering Deception at Bridge (recommended by Cathy Baldysz)
  • Rubens, J, Expert Bridge Simplified: Arithmetic Shortcuts for Declarer (recommended by David Caprera)
  • Seagram, B, 25 Bridge Conventions You Should know (guest)
  • Seagram, B, Planning the Defense (guest)
  • Seagram, B, Planning the Defense: The Next Level (guest)
  • Sheinwold, A, 5 Weeks to Winning Bridge (mentioned by Kismet Fung)
  • Shenkin, B, Heroes, Icons and Scandals (guest)
  • Sjodal, S & Hansen Kjensli, A, Learn Bridge (published in Norwegian), (guest)
  • Smith, M, World Class: Conversations with Bridge Masters (recommended by Helen Erichsen)
  • Sontag, A, The Bridge Bum (recommended by Dennis Bilde, Jan Kamras)
  • Stewart, F, Bridge: The Complete Guide to Defensive Play (mentioned by Ciaran Coyne)
  • Watson, L.H, Watson's Classic Book on the Play of the Hand at Bridge (recommended by Lisa Berkowitz, Audrey Grant, James Holzhauer, Bronia Jenkins, Janice Seamon-Molson)


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