a mix of nonfiction & fiction books revolving around beauty culture
created by wednesdaymourning
last updated February, 2026
Milk Fed
Melissa Broder
If I Had Your Face
Frances Cha
youthjuice
E.K. Sathue
Rouge
Mona Awad
Hair: A Human History
Kurt Stenn
Inventing Beauty: A History of the Innovations that Have Made Us Beautiful
Teresa Riordan
Beyond The Looking Glass: America's Beauty Culture
Kathrin Perutz
All Made Up: The Power and Pitfalls of Beauty Culture, from Cleopatra to Kim Kardashian
Rae Nudson
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
Beauty
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
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