Sarah Jessica Parker is an American actress, producer, and businesswoman best known for her starring role as Carrie Bradshaw in the HBO series Sex and the City. Beyond her prolific acting career spanning decades, she has established herself as a serious reader with eclectic literary tastes, recommending everything from Victorian realist fiction to contemporary literary fiction.
29 Books Recommended by Sarah Jessica Parker
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Things to do to pass the time before Friday nightβs event at Ulta in New Jersey? Re-read [this book].
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Ev Williams, Tim Draper, Gretchen Rubin, Jennifer Lawrence, Kathie Lee Gifford, Larry King
The Underground Railroad
5 people recommendedMagnificent.
Also recommended by: Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Andy Cohen, John Legend
A Gentleman in Moscow
5 people recommendedMagnificent.
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Melinda Gates, Brian Koppelman
Things Fall Apart
4 people recommendedSarah Jessica Parker shared this book on Instagram.
Also recommended by: Barack Obama, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jacqueline Novogratz
Exit West
3 people recommendedGives a deeply real, beautiful, intricate and electrifying look at what it means to be an immigrant right now.
Also recommended by: Barack Obama, Michelle Obama
Heartland
3 people recommendedAbout the entrenched deprivation of overlooked Americans born into poverty across the country.
Also recommended by: Barack Obama, Melinda Gates
The Goldfinch
2 people recommendedIβm indescribably jealous of any reader picking up this masterpiece for the first time.
Also recommended by: Hillary Clinton
The Way We Live Now
2 people recommendedI was completely absorbed and loved every single moment, big and small.
Also recommended by: Tim Oreilly
Conversations with Friends
2 people recommendedThis book. This book. I read it in one day. I hear I'm not alone.
Also recommended by: Taylor Swift
A Thousand Ships
2 people recommendedSarah Jessica Parker shared this book on Instagram.
Also recommended by: Jodi Picoult
Love Rules
2 people recommendedWhile Iβm not sure what Carrie Bradshaw would have made of todayβs new world of dating, I do know this: armed with [this book], she would have figured it all out in one season.
Also recommended by: Esther Perel
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
recommended 2xMagnificent and heartrending tale.
Magnificent and heartrending tale.
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
I was really surprised at how much I loved this book about a depressive man longing for connection.
Five Days at Memorial
recommended 3xThis brilliant, non-fiction book is brutal and minutely-researched.
This brilliant, non-fiction book is brutal and minutely-researched.
This brilliant, non-fiction book is brutal and minutely-researched.
Stay with Me
recommended 3xA fast-paced, wonderfully powerful and heartbreaking tale of love, loyalty and betrayal.
A fast-paced, wonderfully powerful and heartbreaking tale of love, loyalty and betrayal.
A fast-paced, wonderfully powerful and heartbreaking tale of love, loyalty and betrayal.
Sweetbitter
recommended 3xI can't stop. No one talk to me.
I can't stop. No one talk to me.
I can't stop. No one talk to me.
Dunbar
recommended 3xSarah Jessica Parker shared this book on Instagram.
Sarah Jessica Parker shared this book on Instagram.
Sarah Jessica Parker shared this book on Instagram.
The Rules Do Not Apply
recommended 3xSarah Jessica Parker shared this book on Instagram.
Sarah Jessica Parker shared this book on Instagram.
Sarah Jessica Parker shared this book on Instagram.
The Antiques
recommended 3xSarah Jessica Parker shared this book on Instagram.
Sarah Jessica Parker shared this book on Instagram.
Sarah Jessica Parker shared this book on Instagram.
Zero K
recommended 3xOh man am I digging this book.
Oh man am I digging this book.
Oh man am I digging this book.
The Glorious Heresies
recommended 3xA book and tale to be reckoned with.
A book and tale to be reckoned with.
A book and tale to be reckoned with.
Dear Mr. M
recommended 3xSarah Jessica Parker shared this book on Instagram.
Sarah Jessica Parker shared this book on Instagram.
Sarah Jessica Parker shared this book on Instagram.
A Place for Us
recommended 3xI am so excited for all readers to experience this timely, beautiful, unforgettable story that will capture minds and hearts.
I am so excited for all readers to experience this timely, beautiful, unforgettable story that will capture minds and hearts.
I am so excited for all readers to experience this timely, beautiful, unforgettable story that will capture minds and hearts.
Anatomy of a Miracle
recommended 3xThe story in these pages is astoundingly joyous and deeply humane.
The story in these pages is astoundingly joyous and deeply humane.
The story in these pages is astoundingly joyous and deeply humane.
No One Is Coming to Save Us
recommended 3xAn arresting and powerful novel about an extended African American family and their colliding visions of the American Dream.
An arresting and powerful novel about an extended African American family and their colliding visions of the American Dream.
An arresting and powerful novel about an extended African American family and their colliding visions of the American Dream.
The Woman from Uruguay
recommended 2xSarah Jessica Parker shared this book on Instagram.
Sarah Jessica Parker shared this book on Instagram.