 | Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession by Julie Powell
Buy new: $14.61 / Used from: $13.06 I read a little about her marriage in her essay "Lost in Space" in Paula Derrow's anthology Behind the Bedroom Door, which I consider one of the best pieces about sex I've ever read. Cannot wait to read this one!
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 | The Generosity of Women by Courtney Eldridge
Buy new: $19.00 / Used from: $0.01 I am so awed by Courtney Eldridge's short stories from Unkempt; they just amazed me, and I can't wait to see what she does with a full-length novel. One of my newish fiction discoveries, and a favorite.
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 | One Big Happy Family: 18 Writers Talk About Polyamory, Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Househusbandry, Single Motherhood, and Other Realities of Truly Modern Love by Rebecca Walker
Buy new: $6.18 / Used from: $0.98 There are some truly amazing, complex, thrilling essays here about families of all kinds that go so far beyond the "nuclear family."
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 | Stuffed: An Insider's Look at Who's (Really) Making America Fat by Hank Cardello
Buy new: $21.57 / Used from: $4.45 I'm quoted in this so of course I want to read it! I have a copy just have to actually get to reading. This is one of those theme topics, like "I'm a doctor, I'll write a memoir" in bookstores now; I saw several similar books on a recent bookstore visit, but this one has whole chapter on cupcakes!
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 | Because I Love Her by Andrea N. Richesin
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $2.50 My friend Elise Miller (author of the beloved Star Craving Mad) has an essay in here that I'm especially looking forward to.
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 | Mommywood by Tori Spelling
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $5.00 Yes, I read SToriTelling, and loved it, so I'm ready for more.
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 | Bought: A Novel by Anna David
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $4.49 I loved her first novel, Party Girl.
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 | Cooking and Screaming: Finding My Own Recipe for Recovery by Adrienne Kane
Buy new: $20.40 / Used from: $5.71 Another food blogger book deal - must study and learn the secrets even though I don't want to write a memoir, but a joint cupcake book. I am a weirdo and discover blogs via their books, as I did with this one that I stumbled upon at Housing Works.
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 | The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women by Jessica Valenti
Buy new: $17.96 / Used from: $0.98 Very curious to see what Jessica has to say on this topic.
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 | It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown, and a Much Needed Margarita by Heather Armstrong
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $4.80 The mother of all mommy bloggers (perhaps all personal bloggers?) reveals how she came to be "Dooce."
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 | Rattled!: A Memoir by Christine Coppa
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.50 Another mommy blogger memoir? Sign me up!
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 | Love, Mom: Poignant, Goofy, Brilliant Messages from Home by Doree Shafrir
Buy new: $14.39 / Used from: $0.35 I just got an advance copy and it's totally hilarious!
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 | Mercury in Retrograde: A Novel by Paula Froelich
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $4.55 |
 | Taking Care of Business (Black Lace) by Megan Hart
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $5.40 Megan Hart and Lauren Dane? Knockout combination! Check out their blog Bring Me My Hookah (that should be in the blog name hall of fame, no?)
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 | Everyone Is Beautiful: A Novel by Katherine Center
Buy new: $15.64 / Used from: $6.96 I actually already read this, but it doesn't come out until 2009. So beautiful - first discovered it because of the cupcake on the cover, but it's a fabulous novel about marriage and motherhood. I also recommend Center's first novel, The Bright Side of Disaster.
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 | Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $9.00 |
 | What Was I Thinking?: 58 Bad Boyfriend Stories by Barbara Davilman
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $3.41 We've all been there, right?
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 | Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object by Kathleen Rooney
Buy new: $15.30 / Used from: $9.95 I blurbed this one - it's about Rooney's time as a nude art model, and is very smart.
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 | Thanks for Coming: One Young Woman's Quest for an Orgasm (P.S.) by Mara Altman
Buy new: $11.89 / Used from: $4.12 |
 | Jennifer Johnson Is Sick of Being Single: A Novel by Heather Mcelhatton
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $1.42 |
 | Not That Kind of Girl: A Memoir by Carlene Bauer
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $8.50 I don't only read about the slutty girls, see?
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 | In Her Own Sweet Time: Unexpected Adventures in Finding Love, Commitment, and Motherhood by Rachel Lehmann-Haupt
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $1.77 Um, yes, cause I am feeling like a very old lady with majorly ticking biological clock at 33.
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 | Obsession: An Erotic Tale by Gloria Vanderbilt
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $5.35 |
 | The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors by Hal Niedzviecki
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $7.46 My erotica anthology Peep Show, the 3rd one on voyeurism and exhibitionism (after Caught Looking and Hide & Seek) comes out later in 2009 so this caught my eye after reading his Lives column.
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 | Stories from Candyland by Candy Spelling
Buy new: $13.02 / Used from: $5.15 How could I *not* want to read this? And it comes out, I believe, the same day as Tori Spelling's Mommywood!
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 | In-N-Out Burger: A Behind-the-Counter Look at the Fast-Food Chain That Breaks All the Rules by Stacy Perman
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $11.00 Mmmm...In-N-Out! Trying to branch out so I know about more things than just cupcakes, plus I only get to eat In-N-Out on my rare ventures to the West Coast.
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 | Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman
Buy new: $16.50 Even though I think "is the new black" has been done quite a bit, kicked off by Jen Lancaster's Bitter is the New Black, this memoir title totally works.
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 | Geek Charming by Robin Palmer
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 I really liked Robin Palmer's fun Cinderella update Cindy Ella. I'm always on the lookout for fun YA novels.
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 | Why Is My Mother Getting a Tattoo?: And Other Questions I Wish I Never Had to Ask by Jancee Dunn
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $5.00 I love this title!
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 | Something Like Beautiful: One Single Mother's Story by Asha Bandele
Buy new: $16.31 / Used from: $4.59 I actually have this, gonna read her first memoir, which I've started, first. She has an essay in One Big Happy Family edited by Rebecca Walker.
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 | Martha Stewart's Cupcakes: 175 Inspired Ideas for Everyone's Favorite Treat by Martha Stewart Living Magazine
Buy new: $14.61 / Used from: $11.65 Cupcakes!
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 | Prospect Park West: A Novel by Amy Sohn
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $9.64 Amy Sohn's third novel, apparently set in Brooklyn.
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 | I Love a Man in Uniform: A Memoir of Love, War, and Other Battles by Lily Burana
Buy new: $16.29 / Used from: $4.79 Strip City is one of my favorite memoirs ever, and I think Lily Burana is brilliant. Can't wait to read this!
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 | The Terrible, Horrible, Temp-to-Perm Debacle: Book Two in the Just Make a Choice! Series by Bob Powers
Buy new: $11.89 / Used from: $4.69 Bob Powers is hilarious, and his first adult choose your own adventure book You Are a Miserable Excuse for a Hero! cracked me up (especially the Landmark Forum-esque scene).
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 | Lucky Chica: A Novel by Berta Platas
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $2.09 A novel about one of my favorite things - the lottery? I'm so there.
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 | DIRT: The Quirks, Habits, and Passions of Keeping House
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $0.49 Um, if you saw my apartment, you'd so know why I'm dying to read this. But you will never see my apartment, so you'll just have to trust me.
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 | The Double Life Is Twice as Good: Essays and Fiction by Jonathan Ames
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $8.66 |
 | The Penny Pinchers Club by Sarah Strohmeyer
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $2.00 I read her book Sweet Love this year, which I discovered because of the cupcake on the cover, and really enjoyed, so want to see what's next.
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 | The Cupcake Queen by Heather Hepler
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $9.79 YA + cupcakes? I'm so there!
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