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Five Books We’d Put in Barbie’s Dreamhouse Library
The doll’s head may be hollow, but we know she’s got brains.
We’ve long suspected that Barbie is a secret bookworm—how else is she supposed to pass those long, dreary hours between playtimes? But Barbie’s Dreamhouse set finally gave us the proof we needed: a copy of a book titled “Moby Barbie,” complete with a bubblegum pink whale tail illustration, resting casually on the doll’s nightstand. While many viewers went wild trying to imagine how themes from Melville’s masterpiece might emerge in Greta Gerwig’s fantastically plastic universe, we had a different question: What else is Barbie reading? Read on for our best guesses for the books that might fill her Dreamhouse shelves.
Charley is a Books Editor at Oprah Daily where she writes about authors, writing, and reading. She is also a freelance writer and audio journalist whose work has been featured in the Atlantic, the Los Angeles Review, Agni, and on the Apple News Today podcast. She is currently completing an MFA in creative nonfiction at NYU and working on an essay collection about the intersection of grief, landscape, and urban design.
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