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Sophie Gilbert 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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Sophie Gilbert is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Staff writer @TheAtlantic covering TV, books, culture. Twin parent. Tabasco superfan. Brit-ish.

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Book Cover for: This Time Tomorrow, Emma Straub

This Time Tomorrow

Emma Straub
Sophie GilbertSophie Gilbert

I loved This Time Tomorrow infinitely and it was so wonderful to talk with Emma Straub about all the things we love and lose https://t.co/JIhOXj4gt1

Paperback, 2023

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter, John Hendrickson

Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter

John Hendrickson
Sophie GilbertSophie Gilbert

Happy book day to @JohnGHendy! Read a beautiful, compelling excerpt from Life on Delay here: https://t.co/xrHl9CCoMO

Paperback, 2024

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Custom of the Country: Based on Edith Wharton's 1913 Novel, Jane Stanton Hitchcock

The Custom of the Country: Based on Edith Wharton's 1913 Novel

Jane Stanton Hitchcock
Sophie GilbertSophie Gilbert

Just adapt Edith Wharton already! The Custom of the Country is right there! The Buccaneers hasn't been done since 1995! The House of Mirth was great but it was 22 years ago!

Paperback, 2000

$6.95$3.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World, Danielle Friedman

Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World

Danielle Friedman
Sophie GilbertSophie Gilbert

Let’s Get Physical is clear-eyed about assessing the flaws in the fitness movement—its mixed messaging, its propagation of toxic ideals, its longtime exclusion of differently abled women, plus-size women, and particularly women of color.

Paperback, 2023

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Trust Exercise, Susan Choi

Trust Exercise

Susan Choi
Sophie GilbertSophie Gilbert

I really loved Susan Choi's Trust Exercise, which encapsulates how constructing your identity around art can blur the boundaries between reality and fiction. https://t.co/juxBERJM7z

Paperback, 2020

$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Circe, Madeline Miller

Circe

Madeline Miller
Sophie GilbertSophie Gilbert

@AdrienneLaF Circe by Madeline Miller

Paperback, 2020

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir, Margo Jefferson

Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

Margo Jefferson
Sophie GilbertSophie Gilbert

@vauhinivara Not an essay, a book, but Margo Jefferson’s Constructing a Nervous System is extraordinary

Paperback, 2023

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton
Sophie GilbertSophie Gilbert

Just adapt Edith Wharton already! The Custom of the Country is right there! The Buccaneers hasn't been done since 1995! The House of Mirth was great but it was 22 years ago!

Paperback, 1993

$12.00$6.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier, Marisa Meltzer

Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier

Marisa Meltzer
Sophie GilbertSophie Gilbert

Meltzer’s 2023 book, Glossy, is a rich, gossipy history of the company’s rise...Mostly, the book left me marveling at how selling a business in this environment was as much about selling yourself as any particular product.

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Book Cover for: Hotel Du Lac: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner), Anita Brookner

Hotel Du Lac: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner)

Anita Brookner
Sophie GilbertSophie Gilbert

The novel, Brookner’s fourth, drew uncharitable responses after it won the Booker Prize in 1984. But there’s fascinating, bracing tension amid the book’s women, each deemed unfit to be anywhere else...

Paperback, 1995

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book