The Devil Wears Prada: A Novel

Andrea Sachs has a Brown degree, a dream of writing for The New Yorker, and nothing remotely acceptable to wear. So obviously she gets the job a million girls would die for: assistant to Miranda Priestly, editor of Runway and the most terrifying woman in fashion.

The deal is simple. Survive one year and Miranda makes one call that gets Andrea into any magazine in New York. Until then, she answers the phone at all hours, fetches the impossible, learns that a sensible shoe is a moral failing, and watches her boyfriend and her best friend wonder where she went. Poor thing.

Lauren Weisberger wrote the novel after working as an assistant at Vogue. It's the book that inspired the films, funnier and meaner than you remember, read in full by Bernadette Dunne.

Fourteen hours at Runway. Try to keep up.