8 Books That Capture the Cutthroat Glamor of The Devil Wears Prada

Ella Warren has the dream job, working for a celebrity news magazine as an undercover reporter. Her nights are spent at high-profile clubs, red carpet events, and more, on the hunt for the next celebrity scandal.

Hoping to inspire some competition, Ella’s Miranda Priestly-esque boss tells his reporters they must find a juicy beat—or be put on the chopping block. Ella quickly becomes entangled with the Hollywood elite and risks her friendship with on-the-rise actress Holiday Hall. 

Soon, even her personal life, with her boyfriend and family, is on the line, and Ella must decide what matters most, in a “delicious novel” written by a real celebrity journalist (People). 

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Sex and the City comes a tale of three ambitious women at the top of their game, “that will really keep readers turning pages” (Publishers Weekly). 

Victory Ford, the trendsetter of the fashion world, is preparing to release the signature line she’s been working on for years. But struggles in her company cause her to question what she really wants.

Nico O’Neilly is living the life she’s always wanted—writing at the intersection of fashion, film, and politics for Bonfire Magazine. But being one of the most powerful women in publishing isn’t easy—especially when in the midst of a midlife crisis.

Wendy Healy has clawed her way through the movie industry by choosing career over relationships every time. When a competitor starts to threaten her, Wendy risks losing everything she’s worked for—including her marriage. 

Having graduated top of her class at medical school, Dr. Shelly Green is offered a spot at Upper East Side’s most in-demand practice, Madison Petriatics. 

Soon, her way with kids and quick diagnosis draws attention, and she finds a way into New York’s it-crowd.  Now, she’s spending her weekends in the Hamptons, dressed head-to-toe in Prada. 

Her schoolteacher finance can hardly recognize her—especially when hunk Josh Potter enters the picture. Shelley will ultimately have many tough decisions to make—among men, parties, friends, and more. 

Described as “The Devil Wears Prada meets Sex and the City,” Mr. Nice Guy is “a page-turner that’s part sex diary, part coming-of-age story” (Carolyn Kylstra, former Editor in Chief of Self). 

Lucas Callahan moves to the big city with big plans to become a famous writer and starts out in an entry-level job at Empire magazine. One night, he decides to go home with a stunning brunette—only to find the terrible encounter he’s reading in his magazine’s sex column is about him! 

Carmen Kelly wanted to be a journalist, but, given Manhattan’s magazines' boys club attitude, wound up writing about her often unsatisfying sexual exploits. Lucas is furious and decides to publish a rebuttal, signed “Nice Guy,” and the columns go viral—readers want more. 

So, each week, the pair decides to sleep together and details the arrangement. But soon, feelings beyond the sexual begin to  bloom, in a book, #1 New York Times-bestselling author Kevin Kwan said he “could not put [...] down!” 

Megan Smith has recently graduated from Yale and is ready to make her Manhattan debut. With dreams of working in journalism, she takes a job at a tabloid, only to find out it's a flop. 

Megan needs to come up with another plan and fast—her student loan debt isn’t going to pay itself. That’s when she winds up tutoring seventeen-year-old twins Rose and Sage Baker—although the heiresses would rather pose for the paparazzi than get their SAT scores up. 

Megan decides to take an unconventional approach—learning the difference between Pucci and Prada may be her only way to get through to the girls. If she’s going to spend her time with the rich and famous, she may as well look the part. 

A recent graduate of Columbia Law School, Sheila Raj believes she’s destined for greatness, working for the ACLU. 

So, when she accepts an offer to work for esteemed Judge Helga Friednam, it seems the stars are aligning in her favor. Well, that’s before she actually meets “the devil [who] really wears a black robe” (Jill Kargman, author of Momzillas). 

Assigned to a high-profile death penalty case, Sheila is pushed to her limits and must decide what kind of lawyer she wants to be. 

A mix of “mordantly dark and charmingly fun,” An Innocent Fashion is “a modern fable with a timeless heart,” described as “The Devil Wears Prada for millennials” (Rumaan Alam, National Book Award finalist; Vanity Fair). 

When Elián San Jamar takes his full-ride spot at Yale, he knows he has to prove himself—if not for him, for his working-class parents. During frosh week, he makes friends with the privileged Madeline and Dorian, who help him reinvent himself—and after four years, he graduates as Ethan St. James. 

But when he arrives in New York City for his spot at a premier fashion magazine with dreams of decadence, Ethan will have to remember where he came from. 

“Honest and absurd, funny and tragic, wild and lovely,” author R.J. Hernandez writes “in a [...] literary style that flirts openly with the traditions of Salinger, Plath, and Fitzgerald” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). 

Lisa Falloya, half-Japanese and half-Italian American, has wanted to become a manga artist for as long as she can remember, but has decided to play it safe—until now. Saying goodbye to her desk job and work-minded fiancé, she travels to Japan and boards with a welcoming family. 

But no amount of planning could have prepared her for the adventure to come. Under a demanding boss, and among other talented artists, she feels like a fish out of water. 

To find her place, she’ll have to accept her identity and make a leap into the unknown, in “a hilarious take on what it really means to be a hyphenated American in a foreign land” (Beth Harbison, New York Times-bestselling author).