"This is new and it’s already getting a lot of talk. I just started it and I love it: An insider’s view of the luxury hotel business. You’ll never order room service the same again!" –Susan Swimmer, Contributing Fashion Features Editor

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"Reaching back even farther in time, I am also reading John Adams, by David McCullough, who breathes life and urgency into historical figures like nobody’s business." –Nanette Varian, Features Editor

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"I fall in love easily -- and often. Right now I love the one I’m with, wild blogger chef Eddie Huang, whose memoir Fresh Off The Boat is crazy delicious. Makes me feel cooler (and hotter) than I’ll ever be.  However, this book won’t be out till January." –Cathy Medwick, Literary Editor

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"She called herself a 'short, fat piano player from Keokuk, Iowa.' A less charitable commentator said Elsa Maxwell was 'shaped like a cottage loaf with currant eyes.' But her wit, vivacity and utter lack of shame propelled Maxwell to become the world's most famous hostess in the first half of the 20th century. Author Sam Staggs invites you along to the party." –Nancy Stedman, Deputy Editor, Health

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"Stop us if you've heard this before: A 16th century English king, eager to have a male heir, tries to divorce his queen consort and marry a socialite who refuses to have sex before she gets that ring on her finger. Drawing compelling characters, writer Hilary Mantel has managed to turn the familiar story of Henry VIII into a page-turner of a novel. This first volume of a proposed trilogy, told from the point of view of ruffian-turned-royal adviser Thomas Cromwell, won the Man Booker award in 2009. Its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies, garnered the same prize this year."  –Nancy Stedman, Deputy Editor, Health

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"This novel is a seductive mix of 1960s Italy and Hollywood today, of sensitive fictional characters and a riotous cameo of Richard Burton, of poignancy and wit, or delicacy and vulgarity. It took me on a pleasurably dizzying trip between past and present and I hated that the journey had to end." –Ila Stanger, Managing Editor

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"This summer I devoured Gone Girl: A Novel by Gillian Flynn. I’m a sucker for murder mysteries in any form, so I finished this book in less than 48 hours. It was like reading an episode of Law & Order or Criminal Minds. You will, quite literally, be on the edge of your seat reading this and the ending, I might add, is a real killer. Now I’m on to Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff." –Daniela Jelaska, Assistant Editor

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"Books have about five pages and 15 minutes to hook me before I move on. I recently finished The Mistress’s Daughter, by A.M. Homes. I pulled it off a library shelf and was intrigued by the little girl’s probing eyes on the cover. I recognized Homes from fact-checking her book reviews for More (years ago). Her memoir recounts how her world was upended when her birth mother contacted her 32 years after giving her up for adoption. She later meets her biological father, who at first embraces her before breaking off contact. It’s an insightful journey of a woman trying to reconcile the adoptive and biological strands of her identity." –Beatrice Hogan, Research Editor

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