Holiday Reading List.

Lots of you have asked me for  a holiday reading list and are in luck, because every year my bestie KJ and I sit on the beach and all we do is listen to music and read books all day. It’s a rough life, we know… Anyway, she just asked me for one so you can thank her for this list.

They’re all linked so you can either order a hard copy or download. You’re welcome.

I do love the act of reading a real book as well as using them for decoration so I actually buy about as many as I download. I literally have books everywhere in the bungalow. It’s casual.

Must Reads.

• Normal Gets You Nowhere (Kelly Cutrone)
• If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You (Kelly Cutrone)
• Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, And Betrayal
• Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion
• Chic-tionary: The Little Book of Fashion Faux-cabulary (read the feature)
• All’s Fair in Love & Wardrobe (read the review)
• The Woman I Wanted to Be (Diane von Furstenberg)
• Friendship (this is like, my actual life)

Suggested Reading.

• Reinventing Mona
• Lori Goldstein: Style is Instinct
• The Perfect Manhattan
• Spin: A Novel
• Lessons from Madame Chic: 20 Stylish Secrets I Learned While Living in Paris
• Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned”
• Yes Please
• Diary of a Mad Diva
• Power Vs. Force (courtesy of Miranda Kerr)
• Transcending the Levels of Consciousnes: The Stairway to Enlightenment (also courtesy of Miranda Kerr)
• Control The Crazy: My Plan to Stop Stressing, Avoid Drama, and Maintain Inner Cool (by Vinny from Jersey Shore!)

“New Year, New Me” Reads.

• A Rebel Chick Mystic’s Guide: Healing Your Spirit with Positive Rebellion
• The Champagne Diet
• Taming Your Alpha Bitch
• I’ll Have What She’s Having: My Adventures in Celebrity Dieting
• The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure
• The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body (Cameron Diaz)
• The Skinny Confidential: A Babe’s Sexy, Sassy Health and Lifestyle Guide (obsessed with her blog)
• At Home with Madame Chic: Becoming a Connoisseur of Daily Life

PS. If you’re reading in iBooks, a tip: set to scroll mode in your reader settings, it makes the reading experience SO much better… in my humble opinion.  I use iBooks when I know I’ll want to highlight and make notes because I have a Kindle Paperwhite and it’s hard to do anything but read on that. I’m psycho, I know. It’s fine.

I’ll be sure to report back on my reads as I get through them… Stone Cold Book Club, anyone?! If you’ve read any of these titles, I’d love for you to drop a comment with your thoughts.

xx