How to Work a Room: The Ultimate Guide to Making Lasting Connections In Person and Online is a self-help book by Susan RoAne.

[1][2][3][4][5] It was first published in 1988 as How to Work a Room: A Guide to Successfully Managing the Mingling.

[6] It is a guidebook on how to socialize at parties and other events, oriented towards the business community.

[13] The book starts by outlining the benefits of socializing, and the problems typically encountered when doing so.

[19] David Brooks in The Wall Street Journal (1988) wrote a tongue-in-cheek review of the book as a guide for shallow and manipulative people who are otherwise not very interesting but wish to appear so.