Books written by Jen Lancaster
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By The Numbers
The New York Times bestselling author of The Best of Enemies serves up a hilarious new novel of the “sandwich generation.” Actuary Penny Sinclair has a head for business, and she always makes rational decisions.
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The Best of Enemies
Bridesmaids meets Big Little Lies in a novel told from the alternating perspectives of two women who define the term frenemies—from New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster.
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Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-centered Smart-ass, Or, why You Should Never Carry a Prada...
A hilarious memoir chronicles the adventures and misadventures of a woman whose perfect life, perfect job, and perfect man vanish when she goes from a six-figures career to unemployment. Original.
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The Best of Enemies
“ Their brief relationship and subsequent breakup caused this whole chain of events that took us from being the best of friends to the best of enemies . ” “ This is already my favorite story ever , " Terry says , eagerly glancing back ...
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Twisted Sisters
Her family will never let her hear the end of it.) Desperate to make the show work and keep her family at bay, Reagan actually listens when the show's New Age healer offers an unconventional solution ... Record Nielsen ratings follow.
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Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why it Often Sucks in the City, or Who...
Jen Lancaster hates to burst your happy little bubble, but life in the big city isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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My Fair Lazy: One Reality Television Addict's Attempt to Find Out If Not Being a Dumb Ass is the New...
Chronicles the author's efforts to achieve cultural enlightenment by reading canonical literature, viewing classic films, attending the opera, and researching artisan cheeses.
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Pretty in Plaid: A Life, A Witch, and a Wardrobe, or, the Wonder Years Before the Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smart-Ass...
Jen Lancaster's cultural inferiority complex had to come from somewhere...and now fans can find out where in this hilarious New York Times bestselling memoir from the author of Bitter is the New Black.
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Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada...
This is the smart-mouthed, soul-searching story of a woman trying to figure out what happens next when she's gone from six figures to unemployment checks and she stops to reconsider some of the less-than-rosy attitudes and values she ...
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The Tao of Martha: My Year of LIVING, Or why I'm Never Getting All that Glitter Off of the Dog
Recounts the author's search for domestic bliss as she embraces the word of Martha Stewart and attempts to follow her in all things, from closet organization to stain removal, with laughably disastrous results.
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The Gatekeepers
“How could we know that forever could end at seventeen?” Anyone passing through North Shore, Illinois, would think it was the most picture-perfect place ever, with all the lakefront mansions and manicured hedges and iron gates.
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Welcome to the United States of Anxiety: Observations from a Reforming Neurotic
"Every day, Americans are bombarded with terrifying news about crime, the environment, politics, and the health consequences of the foods we've been enjoying for years.
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Here I Go Again: A Novel
Are you avoiding (ha!pun intended!) me pre–corn dog?” That's scheduled to go down tomorrow. ... It's imperative— if his futuredepends on your breakinghis heart, then you mustfirst captureit. That won't happen if you'renot sincere.
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I Regret Nothing: A Memoir
We were taught to ignore her and to discipline her into submission either through yelling or shaking a can of pennies ... Now she's calm enough to be left in a room alone for the first time in her life, and I can be left alone in a room ...
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Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why it Often Sucks in the City, or Who...
The neighborhood is having a garage sale and I want to sell it . ” She points to the one thing in their house I desperately want . ( Many a time I've been tempted to put a “ Jen ” sticker on it , like in that episode of Frasier when he ...
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The Tao of Martha: My Year of LIVING; Or, Why I'm Never Getting All That Glitter Off of the Dog
One would think that with her impressive list of bestselling self-improvement memoirs Jen Lancaster would have it all together by now.
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Bitter is the New Black
Jen Lancaster had the perfect man, the perfect job, the perfect life and there was no reason to think it wouldn’t last. Or maybe there was, but Jen Lancaster was...
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Pretty in Plaid: A Life, a Witch, and a Wardrobe, Or the Wonder Years Before the Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-centered Smart-ass...
The newest memoir from the New York Times best-selling author of Such a Pretty Fat offers an humorous, inside look at the scribe's childhood. Original.
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Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult's Attempt to Unarrest Her Arrested Development; Or, Why It's Never Too Late for Her Dumb...
In Such a Pretty Fat, Jen Lancaster learned how to come to terms with her body.
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Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest To Discover if Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, Or Why Pi...
I don't find these stories uplifting; they make me want to hug these women and take them out for fizzy champagne drinks and cheesecake and explain to them that until they figure out their insides, their outsides don't matter.