Shopping Stars

Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

Fiction

  • The Sistahood of Shopaholics
    Author: Eisdaile, Leslie (edt)
    Publisher: Griffin $ 13.95 ISBN: 0312321880 Date: 2003
    Scintillating stories about four sister-friends with a serious jones for shopping and men. Stories include "Shameless," "It Takes Two," "Please, Baby, Please," and "Promises."
    Updated 9.20.05
  • The Mommy Fund
    Author: Jacob, Madeleine K.
    Publisher: Plume $ 13 ISBN: 0452285763 Date: 2005
    Following two friends on a spree after one of them receives a million dollars, this novel celebrates the ups and downs of motherhood, the sanity-sustaining bonds of female friendship, and the joys of escaping one's normal life, if only for a few days.
    Updated 9.20.05
  • Confessions of a Shopaholic
    Author: Kinsella, Sophie
    Publisher: Delta $ 11.95 ISBN: 0385335482 Date: 2001
    starLJ
    In this all-too-true debut novel, Kinsella chronicles one woman's hilarious efforts to overcome her expensive--if stylish--addiction to shopping. The author has brilliantly tapped into our collective consumer conscience to deliver a tale of our times and a heroine who grows stronger every time she weakens.
    Updated 9.20.05
  • Shopping
    Author: Kramer, Gavin
    Publisher: Soho $ 22 ISBN: 159471894 Date: 2000
    starBooklist
    An awkward English lawyer on business in Tokyo becomes obsessed with a teenage Japanese girl who lives to shop. Shopping won the David Higham Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and was short-listed for the Whitbread First Novel Award.
    Updated 4/3/00.
  • Dying in Style: Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper
    Author: Viets, Elaine
    Publisher: Signet $ 6.99 ISBN: 0451216792 Date: 2005
    Mystery shopper Josie Marcus's report about Danessa Celedine's exclusive store is less than stellar, and it may cost the fashion diva fifty million dollars. But Danessa's financial future becomes moot when she's found murdered, strangled with one of her own thousand-dollar snakeskin belts--and Josie is accused of the crime.
    Updated 9.23.05

Nonfiction

  • Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
    by Iyer, Pico
    Publisher: Knopf $ 25 ISBN: 0679454330 Date: 2000
    starBooklist
    Iyer explores the impersonal spaces that we all frequent as global inhabitants--shopping malls, airport terminals, custom renovated downtowns - spaces that are defined by their placelessness.
    Suggested Reading: Travel Tales
  • Not Buying It
    Author: Levine, Judith
    Publisher: Free $ 25 ISBN: 0743269357 Date: 2006
    starKirkus
    This cold-turkey confession by an award-winning journalist follows her progress--and inevitable relapses--over an entire year of not spending.
    Updated 12.7.05
  • The Call of the Mall: The Author of Why We Buy on the Geography of Shopping
    Author: Underhill, Paco
    Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 24.95 ISBN: 0743235916 Date: 2004
    starBooklist
    Nothing exemplifies shopping more than the mall, America's gift to personal consumption. This book is about the shopping mall as a dipstick reading on the commercial and social culture. It examines how people use it, what it means, why it works when it does, and why it fails when it fails.
    Updated 1.15.04