Madonna Bibliography - Coffee Table Books

Coffee Table Books

Year Book title Release details Notes
1992 Sex
  • Released: October 21, 1992
  • Author: Madonna
  • Photographer: Steven Meisel
  • Publisher: Maverick/Warner Books/Callaway
  • Sold 1,400,000 copies in 6 months
  • Debuted at #1 on New York Times Best Seller list
  • Includes accompanying CD with track "Erotic" which is a slightly different version of the later release "Erotica"
  • Originally named "X" but was changed due to the film Malcolm X being released the same year.
1994 The Girlie Show
  • Released: August 18, 1994
  • Author: Madonna
  • Photographer: Herb Ritts, Christopher Ciccone, Various
  • Publisher: Callaway
  • Behind-the-scenes of the 1993 Girlie Show World Tour
  • Sold 140,000 copies
  • Includes accompanying CD with live tracks "Like a Virgin", "In This Life", and "Why's It So Hard"
1996 The Making of Evita
  • Released: December 5, 1996
  • Author: Alan Parker with foreword by Madonna
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Includes Behind-the-scenes photography from the making of the motion picture Evita
1998 The Emperor's New Clothes
  • Released: October 1998
  • Author: Hans Christian Andersen
  • Publisher: Starbright Foundation
  • Book with audio CD
  • Each snippet of story is performed on an audio CD by one of 23 celebrities, including Jay Leno (the Moth), Madonna (the Empress), Fran Drescher (the Heralding Horn), Jeff Goldblum (the Imperial Wizard), Robin Williams (the Court Jester), and Calvin Klein (the Emperor's Underwear)
  • Steven Spielberg plays the Honest Boy, and he is the creative director of this ambitious enterprise designed to benefit the Starbright Foundation for seriously ill children
  • In the CD, Madonna tells the story from the perspective of the Emperor's Wife (illustrated as Marie Antoinette by Daniel Adel)
2003 X-STaTIC Pro=CeSS
  • Released: 2003
  • Photographer: Steven Klein
  • Designer: Giovanni Bianco
  • Madonna's third coffee table book sold for $350 each
  • 260 pages of 4 color images in a sealed, numbered edition of only 1000 copies
  • Hand-bound and printed in Italy
  • Printed on customized paper with brushed cotton paper slipcase
2004 Nobody Knows Me
  • Released: January 2004
  • Photographer: Various
  • Available exclusively for one month only via Madonna's official website madonna.com
  • 52 pages of success, rare and unseen shots "commented by an Icon and her angels"
  • The book sold for $24 each
2008 Madonna Confessions
  • Released October 1, 2008
  • Photographer: Guy Oseary
  • Publisher: PowerHouse
  • Behind-the-scenes and on-stage photography from the Confessions Tour
  • 224 pages
  • Over 250 four-color photographs
2009 I Am Because We Are
  • Released: January 2009
  • Photographer: Kristen Ashburn, with foreword by Madonna
  • Publisher: PowerHouse
  • accompanies the documentary film I Am Because We Are
  • excerpts from interviews with Malawian children, their biographies, and extended captions
  • Author proceeds from the sale of the book will be donated to the charitable organization Raising Malawi for their extensive work with orphans throughout Malawi
  • 180 pages
  • 106 duotone and 44 four-color photographs
2009 Madonna: Sticky & Sweet
  • Released February, 2010
  • Photographer: Guy Oseary
  • Publisher: PowerHouse
  • Behind-the-scenes and on-stage photography from the Sticky & Sweet Tour
  • 308 pages
  • Over 500 full-color photographs

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