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Chelsea handler's books and book recommendations
Across 3 podcasts. Every show Chelsea handler appears on, in one place — not just one.
Chelsea Joy Handler is an American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, television host, and producer. She hosted the late-night talk show Chelsea Lately on the E! network from 2007 to 2014 and released a documentary series, Chelsea Does, on Netflix in January 2016. From 2016 to 2017, Handler hosted the talk show Chelsea on Netflix. During podcast appearances, Handler has discussed several books from her personal reading history and career. On an episode of SmartLess, she mentioned reading The Book of Mormon when she was eleven years old and discussed selling her own book, Life Will Be the Death of Me, to a network to be adapted into a starring television project for herself. While appearing on On Purpose with Jay Shetty, Handler discussed Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, recalling it as the first book she was never able to finish because she could not understand where the author was taking the narrative. In the same interview, she mentioned reading works by Ta-Nehisi Coates as part of an effort to think outside her own experiences and break away from her personal bubble. Additionally, during an appearance on The Jordan Harbinger Show, Handler discussed reading a book by Moby, expressing initial surprise and light skepticism regarding the complex vocabulary and writing style found within the text.
Books by Chelsea handler
Books recommended by Chelsea handler
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Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates is a powerful, epistolary memoir structured as a letter from a father to his teenage son regarding the realities of growing up Black in America.
Discussed“and that's what i spent my time doing last year reading books you know like james baldwin and tony see coates and or however you say his name i always screw it up”
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Life Will Be the Death of Me
Chelsea Handler's memoir explores her personal evolution, therapy journey, and the experiences that shaped her perspective on life and relationships.
Discussed“And um and I just sold my last book, which is Life Will Be the Death of Me, to uh to a network to uh for me to star in. I read that.”
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Midnight's Children
Midnight's Children is a celebrated novel by Salman Rushdie that explores the magical realist history of India from its independence and partition onward, touching upon regional themes such as Kashmir.
Discussed“there was the one book that i've never finished with salman rushdie midnight's children because i couldn't i didn't understand where the hell the man was”
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The Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon is a foundational sacred text of the Latter-day Saint movement detailing ancient prophetic histories in the Americas.
Discussed“I remember I read the Book of Mormon when I was like 11 and I just How does the Mormon church even allow a Shashana in there?”
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Then It Fell Apart
Then It Fell Apart by Moby is a revealing memoir that chronicles the electronic musician's experiences navigating fame, the New York music scene, and personal struggles.
Discussed“and I'm always pardon me I'm always a little surprised when I have somebody like like Moby wrote a book and I read it and I went there's no way he wrote this there's words in here I'm googling what they mean DJ didn't write this book”
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Other mentions (6: passing, ad reads, own books)
“Get all of what she's having. That's my book. That's just debuted at number one. I'm happy about that.”
“and the book's called life will be the death of me it's out april 9th so for anyone who's listening or watching right now it's probably past april 9th now so you can go ahead and get the book it's probably out by now”
“and the book's called life will be the death of me it's out april 9th”
“and you know when i was a kid i was like please just shut up like i would just make up lines you know out of anna karen and i'm like here this line right here”
“and until my psychiatrist who I talk about in my book let it be the death of me the dot until he painted the picture and said the reason why you end relationships like that is because that's how you think they end”
“I would like to make it statement that I got on the book writing bandwagon away before any of these other girls did I and I did my horizontal life when I was like 27 years old”