Chloe Schama Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Chloe Schama is Senior Editor on Vogue. senior editor @voguemagazine, formerly @ELLEmagazine, @tnr, author of Wild Romance

Joy of Cooking: Fully Revised and Updated
Irma S. Rombauer
We may be living in the era of the search engine, but if you want to get streamlined instructions on the basics, without scrolling past 500 ads and a narrative designed to keep you beholden to those ads, add this to your kitchen library.
Hardcover, 2019
$45.00Member price:$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Roman Stories
Jhumpa Lahiri
A delectable, sun-washed treat... the stories have the beating heart of the city itself, a place of magnificent decay and vibrant, varied life.
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Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking: 30th Anniversary Edition: A Cookbook
Marcella Hazan
Reissued with a sunny, jacket-less cover, it should be a staple of every kitchen.
Hardcover, 2022
$42.00Member price:$21.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sam: A Read with Jenna Pick
Allegra Goodman
There are books that assail you with their importance, and then there are those, like Allegra Goodman’s Sam (The Dial Press), whose modest-seeming ambitions blossom into sweeping works of emotional resonance.
Paperback, 2023
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Long Island Compromise
Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Another tale of modern neuroses, told with bombastic appeal... Brodesser-Akner's sweep and verve is masterful; there are echoes of Philip Roth here in her examination of American Jewish identity, the promise of America, the thrill of reinvention, the prison of privilege.
Hardcover, 2024
$30.00Member price:$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Asymmetry
Lisa Halliday
Lisa Halliday’s Asymmetry is so so good. https://t.co/bqHu2JsE7p
Paperback, 2018
$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Vladimir
Julia May Jonas
I haven’t read a funnier book this year, nor one that galloped along at such a perfect clip. Jonas is also a playwright, and her sense of pace and timing are refined. If you haven’t picked up the novel yet, do so now. You will not regret it.
Paperback, 2023
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Women and Children First
Alina Grabowski
In less capable hands, such rapid shifts might have a disorienting effect, but the book spins an entrancing web, the stories channeling the spirit of Mary Gaitskill and subtly building to reveal more and more about the town’s inhabitants.
Hardcover, 2024
$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Blue Sisters: A Read with Jenna Pick
Coco Mellors
This intricate portrait of a family of sisters is deeply nuanced and compelling, a family drama with intimate psychological portraits within it.
Hardcover, 2024
$30.00Member price:$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Flight
Lynn Steger Strong
Flight is its own portrait of struggle and strife, and yet a smooth and utterly compelling read. Steger Strong has a raw and unflinching originality.
Paperback, 2023
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book