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If I Had Your Face

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E.K. Sathue

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Hair: A Human History

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Inventing Beauty: A History of the Innovations that Have Made Us Beautiful

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Beyond The Looking Glass: America's Beauty Culture

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All Made Up: The Power and Pitfalls of Beauty Culture, from Cleopatra to Kim Kardashian

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Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism

Daphné B.

Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry

Geoffrey Jones

The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls

Joan Jacobs Brumberg

So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo

The Glow

Jessie Gaynor

The Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law

Deborah L. Rhode

Pretty Iconic: A Personal Look at the Beauty Products that Changed the World

Sali Hughes

Uglies (Uglies, #1)

Scott Westerfeld

I Feel Bad About My Neck, And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

Nora Ephron

Skincare Hoax: How You're Being Tricked into Buying Lotions, Potions & Wrinkle Cream

Fayne L. Frey

Clean: The New Science of Skin

James Hamblin

Look at Me

Jennifer Egan

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

The Devil Wears Prada (The Devil Wears Prada, #1)

Lauren Weisberger

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Roxane Gay

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

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Christina Chiu

Size Zero

Victoire Dauxerre

Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital

Elise Hu

Pretty Boys: Legendary Icons Who Redefined Beauty (and How to Glow Up, Too)

David Yi