18 Best Books Like the Barbie Movie

The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: A Doll’s History and Her Impact on Us

Part biography (of Barbie and of Ruth Handler) and part analysis of Barbie as a cultural phenomenon, The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie explores Barbie’s impact over the decades. Meg Cabot, author of the Princess Diaries, pens the introduction, wherein she writes, “How Barbie looked was never the issue…. What she taught us was that, like Barbie, we could be anything we wanted to be.”