Sarah Jessica Parker Reveals Which Book Carrie Bradshaw Would Love

• In an interview for Bustle‘s One Nighstand series, Sarah Jessica Parker spoke about how books are chosen for her TV series And Just Like That…, as well as one book that Carrie Bradshaw would love

• The actress also shared some influential novels in her own life, including The Bee Sting by Paul Murray and The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

• Parker is immersed in the literary world, through her publishing imprint SJP Lit, and through her new role as a judge for the prestigious Booker Prize

Just like Sarah Jessica Parker is no stranger to the screen, neither is her love of books.

The actress spoke with journalist Samantha Leach as part of Bustle’s One Nightstand series, where Parker gave insight into how books are picked to be featured on her show And Just Like That…. The Sex and the City spinoff, whose third season premieres in May, sees Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw reading many titles throughout the series.

“We’re very thoughtful about Carrie’s books versus anything that I might read, but there is overlap, of course,” Parker said. “Our property master is a woman named Jo, who’s really fantastic … she understands to reach out to all the indie publishers well in advance of a shooting, and is looking for books that, by the time the show’s on the air, will be published … so we get a really interesting collection of books, a lot of books that I wouldn’t typically reach for.”

“Cassette, our onset prop person, is incredible,” Parker added. “She and her team keep the books everywhere we go. So, we’ll be doing a street scene and I’ll be like, ‘You know what? I should have a book in my hands. What do you have?’”

The series has featured books like Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen and The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, though Parker says there’s one she feels Carrie would adore.

“It’s a book called The Best of Everything [by Rona Jaffe],” she said. “We are remiss in that that book did not play a part in our show. It doesn’t make any sense … it’s incredible.”

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In One Nightstand, celebrities also reveal some of their favorite books. Among Parker’s choices were Lucy Caldwell’s These Days, which Parker put out through her publishing imprint SJP Lit. She also called out Clear by Carys Davies, An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza and The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.

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“She’s young and potentially has three or four more books in her. She doesn’t have to be here on social media. She doesn’t have to do interviews,” Parker said of Tartt, who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. “She doesn’t have to show up at my dinner party, except in my fantasies.”

Parker also chose The Bee Sting by Paul Murray, a saga about an Irish family’s lives after the Great Recession.

“He really treats each character with such dignity and pathos,” Parker said. “I think the whole book is bravely devastating. It’s amazing to me that an author spent so much time creating such sadness for his reader.”

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The novel was also shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize, which honors English language books published in the UK and Ireland. Parker will judge the prestigious literary award this year, and said that she and her panel will likely read close to 200 books throughout the judging process.

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“I’m doing it similarly to the way I typically read, which is anytime, anywhere, anyplace,” Parker said, adding, “I’m carving out time because I’m not on a set. I’m devoting sometimes six, eight, 10 hours a day to reading. It’s incredible, but it’s so different.”

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