Books Written by Celebrity Authors

Celebrity Authors: Would You Read Their Books?

November 15, 2012

Books Written by Celebrity Authors

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Like a perfume or designer clothing line, celebrities use their personal brands to sell books, ostensibly written by themselves with the often not-so-secret help of a ghostwriter. Books authored by women originally famous for anything but writing range from tell-alls, to thinly-veiled autobiographical novels, to, in the case of Madonna and Kim Cattrall, sex manuals. I've read and enjoyed some myself, like the comedic memoirs of Chelsea Handler, while others intrigue me enough to add to my reading list — I might just download Pamela Anderson's novel Star next time I come down with a cold. To celebrate National Novel Writing Month, I chose some of the most high-profile celebrity-penned books out there, and I want you to vote on each one: read or shelve?

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10 Comments

Burkina 2 years 25 weeks

Letsnot be pretentious snobs here. Just because someone is famous doesn't mean they're an idiot who can't write a book. Portia's book was really good. You can't exactly judge a book about someones life. It is what it is.

Burkina 2 years 25 weeks

Letsnot be pretentious snobs here. Just because someone is famous doesn't mean they're an idiot who can't write a book. Portia's book was really good.You can't exactly judge a book about someones life. It is what it is.

rhodes 2 years 25 weeks

This is what I posted but it only showed up on the Chelsea page. lol I have read all three of Chelsea's books and although they were funny, she frequently made reference to not eating. For a woman who says she loves bigger people and all things fat, she often writes about not eating. Of course these books are a rehashing of her youth but it is a little disturbing when she says she couldn't wait to see how great she looked after starving herself. If you want to ignore that, then yes, the books are a good quick read.

rhodes 2 years 25 weeks

This is what I posted but it only showed up on the Chelsea page. lolI have read all three of Chelsea's books and although they were funny, she frequently made reference to not eating. For a woman who says she loves bigger people and all things fat, she often writes about not eating. Of course these books are a rehashing of her youth but it is a little disturbing when she says she couldn't wait to see how great she looked after starving herself. If you want to ignore that, then yes, the books are a good quick read.

ymama 2 years 25 weeks

Very sweet

ymama 2 years 25 weeks

Very sweet

2 years 25 weeks

chelsea handler books are hiliarious. the only person in this group whose books i'd read.

rossy 2 years 25 weeks

I certainly wouldn't spend any of my hard-earned cash buying any of them. That said - I might pick a few up at the library & read them... Boy! There a lot of celeb books out there & before any of them are dead. - Then again - What's better? A celeb writing it their way or someone doing it when the featured celeb can't complain, must less sue for defamation.

rossy 2 years 25 weeks

I certainly wouldn't spend any of my hard-earned cash buying any of them. That said - I might pick a few up at the library & read them... Boy! There a lot of celeb books out there & before any of them are dead.-Then again - What's better? A celeb writing it their way or someone doing it when the featured celeb can't complain, must less sue for defamation.

inlove23 2 years 25 weeks

Haha, a lot of these were such jokes. Example: Jessica Simpson (YOU are divorced!! lol. Just saying), and pshhh Heidi and Spencer. Her tip to fame: get huge boobs and 9 other plastic surgery operations! That'll do the trick. I thought it was funny how Miley got 0% read. lol. Oh, and I LOVE Chelsea Handler! I read My Horizontal Life, it's hilarious =)