--- description: Hillary Clinton gave her first at-home exclusive interview since leaving her government post in 2013 to People title: Hillary Clinton: Her Favorite Alternate Book Title image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1742b282ff45c4a2/698690eb169ab07b952797a2/486282907.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [2016 Election](/tag/2016-election/) ## 2016 Election Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # These Were Hillary Clinton's Options For a Different Book Title by [Laura Stampler](/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 27, 2014 2:15 PM CUT  Hillary Clinton delivers the Keynote Address at the 35th Annual Simmons Leadership Conference Hillary Clinton delivers the Keynote Address at the 35th Annual Simmons Leadership ConferencePaul Marotta—Getty Images by [Laura Stampler](/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 27, 2014 2:15 PM CUT PEOPLE magazine [scored Hillary Clinton’s first at-home interview](http://www.people.com/article/hillary-clinton-sneak-peek-new-book-hard-choices "undefined") since she left government last year, and the potential presidential candidate offered a preview of her new book _Hard Choices_ on Tuesday. “I considered a number of titles,” the former secretary of state writes in a newly-released excerpt. “Helpfully, _The Washington Post_ asked its readers to send in suggestions. One proposed _It Takes a World_, a fitting sequel to \[my previous book,\] _It Takes a Village_. My favorite was _The Scrunchie Chronicles: 112 Countries and It’s Still All about My Hair_.” PEOPLE’s interview with Clinton hits newsstands June 6. [Read more at PEOPLE](http://www.people.com/article/hillary-clinton-sneak-peek-new-book-hard-choices "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/118680/hillary-clinton-book-people/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/118680/hillary-clinton-book-people/"},"headline":"These Were Hillary Clinton's Options For a Different Book Title","datePublished":"2014-05-27T14:15:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T08:03:20.764Z","description":"Hillary Clinton gave her first at-home interview since leaving her government post in 2013 to PEOPLE","url":"https://time.com/118680/hillary-clinton-book-people/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic","book","People"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1742b282ff45c4a2/698690eb169ab07b952797a2/486282907.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1742b282ff45c4a2/698690eb169ab07b952797a2/486282907.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hillary Clinton","caption":"35th Annual Simmons Leadership Conference","creditText":"Paul Marotta—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/118680/hillary-clinton-book-people/","name":"These Were Hillary Clinton's Options For a Different Book Title"}}]}] ```