Open Book

Jessica Simpson

Feb 2020 · HarperAudio · Narrated by Jessica Simpson

About this audiobook

An Intimate Journey Complete with Original Music all from the Author

The #1 New York Times Bestseller

Includes six new songs by Jessica Simpson, available exclusively in the Open Book audiobook.

Performed by the author featuring her music throughout.

Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles. Guided by the journals she's kept since age fifteen, and brimming with her unique humor and down-to-earth humanity, Open Book is as inspiring as it is entertaining.

This was supposed to be a very different book. Five years ago, Jessica Simpson was approached to write a motivational guide to living your best life. She walked away from the offer, and nobody understood why. The truth is that she didn’t want to lie.

Jessica couldn’t be authentic with her readers if she wasn’t fully honest with herself first.

Now America’s Sweetheart, preacher’s daughter, pop phenomenon, reality tv pioneer, and the billion-dollar fashion mogul invites readers on a remarkable journey, examining a life that blessed her with the compassion to help others, but also burdened her with an almost crippling need to please. Open Book is Jessica Simpson using her voice, heart, soul, and humor to share things she’s never shared before.

First celebrated for her voice, she became one of the most talked-about women in the world, whether for music and fashion, her relationship struggles, or as a walking blonde joke. But now, instead of being talked about, Jessica is doing the talking. Her book shares the wisdom and inspirations she’s learned and shows the real woman behind all the pop-culture cliché’s — “chicken or fish,” “Daisy Duke,” ""football jinx,"" “mom jeans,” “sexual napalm...” and more. Open Book is an opportunity to laugh and cry with a close friend, one that will inspire you to live your best, most authentic life, now that she is finally living hers.

Includes the songs “Heartbeat,” “Practice What You Preach,” “Sweet Temptation,” “Your Fool”(featuring Willie Nelson), “Party of One,” and “Free Will” by Jessica Simpson.

Ratings and reviews

Once I started I couldn't put it down! I finished this book the first day I bought it and am actually reading it again incase I missed something.I could literally feel every single emotion thru her voice! I have to admit I chuckled at the part when she told her Dad, during her and Nick's divorce "Dad just give him the money he wants just let him have it so I can move on, I'll make it all back!" "And I did she said, give or take a Billion!" Way to go Jess!! So proud of her

Although I've never followed her career, I decided to check out this book and I'm so glad I did! I thought it was funny, insightful, touching and honest. Definitely worth the time to read.

I’ve been writing a journal called Open Book, and since you hooded the idea, it’s now Moleskine. A journal about-an actual angel named Michael. Looking for ways not to get in the crossing of being stuck in Hell. I read, and comment on appropriate windows, that my future self/ family could answer, but people get in the way. One wrong hello, and the balance between up and down gets k'd by Faith and superstition. I always will, Rose.

About the author

Jessica Simpson is a musician, actress, entrepreneur, philanthropist, producer, and bestselling author. In 2005, she launched the Jessica Simpson Collection, now a billion-dollar global brand and the most successful celebrity licensing brand in history. As Jessica’s inaugural book, Open Book debuted at # 1 in three categories of the New York Times bestseller list, became a unanimously critically acclaimed global bestseller, and was included in Time’s 100 Must Read Books of 2020 and Rolling Stone’s Best Music Books of 2020. She released six original songs on the audiobook and landed at #1 on the audio charts. The book is sold in more than one hundred and twenty countries. In December 2020, Jessica signed a multi-media deal with Amazon, that includes a new unscripted docuseries based on “Open Book,” and a new coming-of-age scripted series also inspired by the memoir, as well short form content. Jessica lives with her husband and three children in Los Angeles, California.