Real Simple
The Books List
Top Picks for Book Club & Beyond
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October 2025
Real Simple
Drew Barrymore invites you to prioritize yourself
Drew Barrymore doesn’t need much of an introduction. So instead of naming the approximately 87 things she’s starred in since becoming a famous actor at age 7, or talking about her eponymous daytime show that you already watch if the ratings are any indication, I’m just going to tell you how nice she is.
7 min |
October 2025
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APPLE PIE COOKIES
The classic fall treat gets a little bit healthier and a lot more dunkable.
1 min |
October 2025
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5 Easy Dinners
HEAT oil in a large pot over medium-high. Add sausage; cook, breaking it up using a wooden spoon, until browned, 5 to 8 minutes.
5 min |
October 2025
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REFRESH YOUR MAKEUP BRUSHES
You’re probably not giving them enough TLC.
1 min |
October 2025
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Genius Beauty
Our beauty director tries all the products. These are her current faves.
1 min |
October 2025
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ABOUT THOSE TEEFIES
Are doggy dental issues having a moment?
3 min |
October 2025
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THE BEST SOUVENIR I EVER BOUGHT
Traveling is all about the memories—and the unique treasures we pick up along the way. No shame in a kitschy magnet or T-shirt, but we asked frequent fliers to tell us about the meaningful objects they’ve scored on their adventures around the globe.
3 min |
October 2025
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CROWS
They’re friendly, intelligent, and basically the coolest birds ever.
2 min |
October 2025
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What It Feels Like to Be Diagnosed with Breast Cancer
Singer-songwriter Tracy Bonham got the call no one wants to receive on a Friday night. Here’s how she took the news—and everything that followed.
7 min |
October 2025
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Modern Manners
Advice for Your Social Dilemmas
4 min |
October 2025
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PISTACHIOHONEY TOFFEE
This is better than anything you’d get while trick-or-treating. Trust us.
1 min |
October 2025
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Is It OK to Crack Your Knuckles?
Everyone’s got thoughts! We collected yours, then called on the experts to settle the debate once and for all.
1 min |
October 2025
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THESE VACATIONS ARE TOTALLY LIT
Book a literature-inspired adventure and see where the story takes you!
3 min |
October 2025
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Chardonnay All the Way!
The most popular white in the U.S. is also its most maligned. Don’t listen to the haters! This vino deserves a second look (and taste).
3 min |
October 2025
Real Simple
Your Tangled Tech
Get that pile of gizmos, plugs, and cords in order with these smart lo-fi tips, and CTRL the chaos!
1 min |
October 2025
Elle Decor US
THE OTHER SIDE OF BORING
In her new column, Rita Konig tackles modern design dilemmas, both practical and philosophical. Up next: the fiery and ongoing debate between overstatement and restraint.
4 min |
September 2025
Elle Decor US
WHAT WOULD JUDD DO?
The ravages of tire, sandblasting, and time did not destroy the late artist's office, which has finally opened to the public after a painstaking restoration.
2 min |
September 2025
Elle Decor US
ZENNING OUT
For those looking to escape it all the clutter, the tasks, those pesky notification pings-this restored villa is worth the 90-minute drive from Tokyo.
1 min |
September 2025
Elle Decor US
FIT for a DUCHESS
When Miles Redd and David Kaihoi come calling in Rochester, New York, the results are anything but mild-mannered. Simon Doonan engages them on those Windsors—Edward and Wallis—the color red, and the answer to the question, Do you want to live in ugly? Well, no...
3 min |
September 2025
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TO SHOP... PERCHANCE TO DREAM?
A new Peter Marino-designed Dior flagship predicts the future in store.
3 min |
September 2025
Elle Decor US
If You Can Make It HERE
Ambition meets reality in New York for designer Jean-Louis Deniot and his clients, who entrusted him with a double-wide townhouse, completed as he unveils his Waldorf Astoria renovations.
5 min |
September 2025
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WHERE PIET MET CALDER
The legendary Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf lets his plantings speak for him. As the Calder Gardens opens in Philadelphia, he gives a rare interview.
6 min |
September 2025
Elle Decor US
THIS IS IRELAND
You might associate Dublin more with green rolling hills than emerald stone staircases, but that's only because you haven't met Róisín Lafferty yet. The designer and gallerist is reimagining her country's design scene one daring move at a time.
3 min |
September 2025
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THE HOUSE OF YES
A Tudor Revival in San Francisco gets a kaleidoscopic remake from maximalism's reigning queen, Summer Thornton—with nods to Gustav Klimt, English gardens, and Jerry Garcia.
3 min |
September 2025
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ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
We have a new column on our site called \"Elle Decor Checks In.\" (Have you read the one about the Villa d’Este? Brittany? Venice?) What inspired it: our long history of chronicling how the design of a hotel lobby or room or restaurant impacts your entire trip, and the fact that every time we've met with hoteliers lately, the first thing they bring up is who designed the place.
1 min |
September 2025
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BIOGRAPHY OF A ROOM
In the 1980s Catherine Deneuve bought an 18th-century château in Normandy complete with a working moat.
1 min |
September 2025
Elle Decor US
ARCHITECTURE OF TIME
Luxury watch sizes have been trending downward for a few years.
1 min |
September 2025
Elle Decor US
JEWELRY HOUSE
The numismatic museum in Athens is in archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann's old Ernst Ziller-designed house.
1 min |
September 2025
Elle Decor US
ETCETERA
The little things are the big things. This month: tissue boxes so chic a person might develop a cold.
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