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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This Time Tomorrow
Emma Straub
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
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Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter
John Hendrickson
Happy book day to @JohnGHendy! Read a beautiful, compelling excerpt from Life on Delay here: https://t.co/xrHl9CCoMO
Paperback, 2024
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The Custom of the Country: Based on Edith Wharton's 1913 Novel
Jane Stanton Hitchcock
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
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Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World
Danielle Friedman
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
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Trust Exercise
Susan Choi
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
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Circe
Madeline Miller
@AdrienneLaF Circe by Madeline Miller
Paperback, 2020
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Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
Margo Jefferson
@vauhinivara Not an essay, a book, but Margo Jefferson’s Constructing a Nervous System is extraordinary
Paperback, 2023
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The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton
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
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Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier
Marisa Meltzer
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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Hotel Du Lac: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner)
Anita Brookner
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
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