The Devil Wears Prada

Andrea Sachs has just graduated and left her small town behind when she lands what everyone tells her is the job a million girls would die for. She becomes the assistant to Miranda Priestly, the powerful and celebrated editor of Runway magazine. The office is a showcase of designer labels, filled with strikingly thin, impeccably dressed women and gym-sculpted men in leather pants and fine-knit turtlenecks. Miranda can reduce any one of these polished insiders to a frightened child with a single remark.

The demands arrive by phone at all hours, often well into the night, and each day brings tests that Andrea can barely pass. She endures them because of a promise: a good word from Miranda could open the door to a top position at any magazine she chooses. So she keeps her head down and keeps going.

But the requests grow from unreasonable to truly outrageous, and Andrea starts to suspect that this dream job might actually wear her down to nothing. Even if she makes it through, she has to ask whether the reward is worth what it costs her. Lauren Weisberger's debut is a sharp, funny, wickedly entertaining look at life under the boss from hell, and at the bargains people strike to climb to the top. It later became a hit film.