The devil may wear Prada, but what does she read?

Hanya Yanagihara's million-copy bestseller, A Little Life, is too obvious and 'trendy' for Miranda. The debut is the insider's choice. 

It is 1950, and Norton Perina, a young doctor, has embarked on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island. Here, he encounters a strange tribe of forest dwellers who appear to have attained a form of immortality, which preserves the body but not the mind. Perina takes their secret back to America and becomes hugely successful, but at a terrible cost.

Precise, controlled, in constant pursuit of perfection. All describe both Miranda's personality and Gwendoline Riley's crystalline prose. 

The Palm House portrays a friendship beginning to fracture under the quiet pressures of grief, failure and time. As Edmund Putnam withdraws following personal and professional upheaval, Laura Miller is left to reckon with her own precarious life while trying to pull him back. Set between the fading world of a literary magazine and long evenings in a Thames-side pub, this is a precise, unsparing study of loyalty, disillusionment and the fragile structures that hold us together. 

Demonstrating a keen eye, as ever, Miranda read this dark, satirical debut – now a major Netflix series – in hardback. Wonder what it was about that cover that caught her attention. . .

A bold, razor-sharp and timely debut, Julia May Jonas' Vladimir takes us deep into the emotional conflict between the strictures of morality and the impulses of the heart. The book's unnamed narrator is a popular English professor whose husband is under investigation for inappropriate relationships with former students. When she becomes infatuated with Vladimir, a celebrated, married young novelist who’s just arrived on campus, she strikes a match dangerously close to the whole tinder-box.

The Andy who arrives at Runway with aspirations of quickly moving on to become a 'serious journalist' probably has something like this in her bag: a seriously good, seriously readable piece of investigative journalism. 

A gripping true story that exposes the hidden forces shaping modern London, London Falling is the latest compelling read from the bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing. When teenager Zac Brettler falls to his death from a luxury riverside apartment, his parents uncover a secret double life and are drawn into a world of extreme wealth, deception and danger. Patrick Radden Keefe blends forensic reporting with emotional depth, revealing how a global city’s glittering surface can conceal darker truths about power, identity and inequality.

Mid-transformation Andy has no time for reading. A journal, however, is both manageable and productive.

This manifestation journal is designed to help you achieve your goals. Each day, you'll be given the chance to rewrite your ‘manifesto’, work on negative thought patterns that might be holding you back, develop awareness of your thoughts and emotions, and engage with interactive activities to aid your journey.

The Andy who quits her job at Runway goes home to read this. It's razor sharp and provocative but also tender and funny. The perfect mix of old and new Andy Sachs. 

Luster follows Edie, a struggling artist who is messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office, sleeping with all the wrong men, and failing at the only thing that meant anything to her, painting. Then she finds herself kind-of dating Eric, a middle-aged archivist in a kind-of open marriage, and falls slap-bang into the middle of his family.

Emily is judgy, blunt and cutting, but also highly competent, dedicated and living in a constant state of anxiety born of attempting to anticipate Miranda's every need. She needs this book. 

Unstressable applies Mo Gawdat's brilliant engineering mind and Alice Law's psychology and stress-management expertise to the 'stress pandemic'. Chronic stress is not an unavoidable part of modern life, but a predictable – and therefore preventable – response, often as much to do with negative thought patterns as external circumstances. Practical exercises will help you build up the skills to manage stress, backed up by neuroscience and accessible psychology.

Emily's book choices are carefully curated, with everything there for a reason (the main reason being: someone important might notice it). Endorsed by Dua Lipa and Kaia Gerber, written by an indie rockstar, and a genuinely excellent book, Crying in H Mart ticks so many credential boxes.

Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart is a memoir of grief, food and family and offers a frank and nuanced portrayal of a daughter's relationship with her mother. The particular, high expectations; their late-night bonding over food; and the mother's terminal cancer diagnosis, which forces Zauner to fully engage with her Korean identity and reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her. 

Unlike Andy, Emily has always been hugely invested in fashion and hoovers up books by and about fashion insiders. She wants, and needs, to know it all. 

This is the story of a British fashion icon, who built a global fashion empire from a tiny shop in Nottingham. From dressing David Bowie, Daniel Day-Lewis and Giorgio Armani to why he still works on the shopfloor on Saturdays, Sir Paul shares his life in fashion from 1960s London to today.