Black Friday 2010: Books With Great Shopping Scenes (PHOTOS)

It's Black Friday and time to go on a literary shopping spree, not the way James Franco went on a spree buying up film rights to books, but learning from the best characters in books when you need to get out there and spend some cash. Some of them did it with real panache, so before heading out to brave the stores, you might want to see how the greats of literature have faced the mayhem. And let us know who we missed.

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"Confessions Of A Shopaholic"

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by Sophie Kinsella

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Comments

[London Mabel]

05:21 AM on 12/09/2010

You forgot the entire genre of "sex and shopping" books from the '80s -- namely Judith Krantz and Jackie Collins!

[Freeman Hall]

04:52 PM on 11/27/2010

Hey there my Huffington Post darlings, you forgot my book!!!

It's all about shopping hell and is in bookstores now: "RETAIL HELL, HOW I SOLD MY SOUL TO THE STORE, CONFESSIONS OF A TORTURED SALES ASSOCIATE"

I've worked in retail for over 20 years at stores like Macy's, I Magnin, and most notably Nordstrom. "Retail Hell" is my funny memoir about becoming a designer handbag salesman at a high end store called The Big Fancy while I had dreams of being a screenwriter. I become trapped in the store surrounded by a strange cast of customer and coworker characters.

When asked about my writing style, I always say, "If David Sedaris and Kathy Griffin had a love child, it would be me, you get the story telling and potty mouth all rolled into one.

Retail Hell was published last year in hardcover and has just been released in paperback with added bonus chapters. It's in bookstores everywhere including Barnes and Noble and Borders.

Thanks everyone! Have a great holiday season, with no Retail Hell!
xo
Freeman

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Retail-Hell/Freeman-Hall/e/9781440505775/?itm=1&USRI=Retail+Hell

http://www.retailhellthebook.com/

[mindspring]

11:52 AM on 11/27/2010

"I'll Take It" by Paul Rudnick is all about shopping.

[llisa]

01:54 AM on 11/27/2010

I hate shopping. I certainly don't want to read about it.

[jcarterla]

02:13 PM on 11/26/2010

Is reading about shopping worse then actually shopping?

[Mahi Joe]

02:10 PM on 11/26/2010

"The Ladies Paradise" by Emile Zola really should have been on the list.

[naschkatze]

11:54 AM on 11/26/2010

Madame Bovary should be on the list.

[Lev Raphael]

11:16 AM on 11/26/2010

Doesn't anyone know literary history any more? The ur-shopping book is 1883's "The Ladies Paradise" (Au Bonheur des Dames) by Zola, all about the brand new concept of stores that had everything in them by department. It's astonishing, takes you behind the scenes of a white sale (yes!) , of strategies to funnel shoppers towards what you want them to buy, and much more more. It's a must read novel for that and for the story line, and only in the new translation by the brilliant Brian Nelson who also translated "Pot Luck" and "The Kill." All three are Oxford Classics.