 | My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands by Chelsea Handler
Buy new: $8.97 / Used from: $6.28 The originatrix of the term "hot mess" gets the party started...
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 | Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $9.49 ...and then just cannot be stopped! (For you, Chelsea, always!--Love, Vodka)
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 | Marilyn Monroe Confidential: An Intimate Personal Account by Lena Pepitone
Buy used from: $0.13 Ur-hot mess Marilyn was leaking all over her clothes in public half a century before Britney took hot mess mainstream in 2007:The Year Hot Mess Broke. Entertainment, Trash, and Hot Mess Quotients=all 10; Truth Quotient=about a 3, but you can't have everything...
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 | Edie: American Girl by Jean Stein
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $4.66 I pored over this book ardently as a young lass yearning to grow up to be a hot mess, and it still stands up to annual re-readings.
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 | No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel by Janice Dickinson
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.00 Janice is living proof that you can keep on being a hot mess for decades on end if you know how to pace yourself.
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 | Thing of Beauty by Stephen Fried
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.89 Gia took hot mess to a whole new level, but then she had a head start, as her heyday was the late 70s/early 80s, the Golden Age of Hot Mess.
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 | Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 Having thoroughly proven her own hot mess credentials in her autobios, Elizabeth is more than qualified to dilate on the nature of the abstract concept of hot mess as well as provide drive-by capsule bios of such hot mess manquees as Margaux Hemingway.
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 | Great Big Beautiful Doll: The Anna Nicole Smith Story by Eric Redding
Buy used from: $0.01 Supersize that hot mess!
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 | Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love by Courtney Love
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $2.02 No, she's *not* just the Anna Nicole Smith of grunge--Courtney is meta-hot mess, deconstructing it by embodying it. Hot mess as performance art.
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