rachel syme Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
rachel syme on XRachel Syme is a staff writer at the New Yorker. woman about town. staff writer @newyorker. also: writing a book for @aaknopf + a coffee table book for @penguinrandom. away from here, mostly.

Happy All the Time
Laurie Colwinif you are looking for the perfect book to read over one languid holiday summer sunday, i MUST suggest laurie colwin's "happy all the time"
Paperback, 2010
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives from Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer
Kennedy FraserThere are certain writers whose sentences snap you back to life... and Fraser, with her beautiful adjectives and popping syntax, always pushes me to want to do better... I keep rereading the book to try to divine her formula, but it still feels like magic to me.
Paperback, 1998
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round
Jami AttenbergSo thrilled to be a part of @jamiattenberg’s new 1000 words book, offering up a few little things I learned about channeling your inner jacqueline susann 💕🍸❤️
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Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
Rachel Avivfile under: absolutely devoured
Paperback, 2023
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Vladimir
Julia May JonasReading Vladimir right now she @Julia_May_Jonas does this so well https://t.co/8BR6MT0kEz
Paperback, 2023
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Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantelthe wolf hall trilogy made and remade my mind, but my very favorite hilary mantel was her 2003 memoir "giving up the ghost" in which she wrote the lines: "Trust your reader, stop patronizing your reader, give your reader credit for being smart as you at least.”
Paperback, 2021
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Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooneythey released the first photos from conversations with friends and in terms of casting extremely hot people, sally rooney has done it again https://t.co/v19BTtqVBR
Paperback, 2018
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The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with Recipes)
Kate Leboif you are interested in debating produce, might i suggest a great book i read recently? it's called "the book of difficult fruit" by kate lebo and it is 20+ little essays on the history of lesser-known berries and stone fruits etc. with recipes! https://t.co/EiVWXe90zX
Paperback, 2022
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Great Circle: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Finalist)
Maggie Shipsteadstill thinking about maggie shipstead's the great circle tbh
Paperback, 2022
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
You Can Teach An Old Dog New Tricks: The Psychology of Adult Learning
Bert Nemcik@ijk64 Our guy is a puppy but according to the train or you can teach an old dog new tricks! he had a very wild older Rhodesian Ridgeback board with him for a while and totally turned that guy around
Paperback, 2015
$6.49Member price:$3.24 + Free shipping50% off your first book