Teresa Giudice’s New Book Joins Long List of ‘Real Housewives’ Memoirs
Teresa Giudice is putting pen to page, again.
Over the weekend, The Real Housewives of New Jersey star announced her latest memoir, The Queen of New Jersey. It’s due out in fall 2026 from Ballast Books and is available for pre-order now.
Teresa Giudice is ‘holding nothing back’ in new memoir
“I can’t believe it’s been almost nine years since my last memoir. And let me tell you—a LOT has happened in those nine years,” Teresa wrote in her Instagram book announcement. (Her first memoir, Turning the Tables: From Housewife to Inmate and Back Again, came out in 2016. She followed it up with Standing Strong in 2017. She’s also authored multiple cookbooks.)
In her latest book, Teresa promises that, “for the first time ever, I’m holding nothing back.” She adds, “if there’s something from the show I’ve wanted to set the record straight about, you’re going to find it in this book.
Teresa’s newest book will join the ever-growing stack of Real Housewives memoirs. Penning a tell-all has become a right of passage for most established Bravolebrities. Some people have even published multiple books where they get to share their side of the story, uninterrupted and without a filter.
Must-read ‘Real Housewives’ memoirs
A list on GoodReads includes nearly 100 Real Housewives-related titles. Most are memoirs from current and past cast members. Which ones should you add to your to-read list? That depends on your favorite franchise and whether you’re looking for gossipy secrets or a more nuanced read.
RHONY alum Carole Radziwill authored one of the top-rated Bravolebrity memoirs. That’s likely because it’s a book that’s worth reading even for the non-Bravo fans. What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love (which was published years before she joined the RHONY) traces the future Housewife’s life from her working-class childhood to her romance with and marriage to Kennedy family cousin Anthony Radziwill. A former ABC News producer and journalist, she also opens up about her friendship with John F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and how she coped with their tragic deaths and the loss of her husband just three weeks later from cancer.
Readers have also raved about Yolanda Hadid’s 2017 memoir Believe Me: My Battle With the Invisibility of Lyme Disease. In this book, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum discusses her experience with the debilitating chronic illness.
In her 2023 book Bad Mormon, The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Heather Gay got candid about growing up in the strict faith and her move away from The Church of Jesus Chris of Latter-Day Saints. Kirkus Reviews called it “a thoughtful, smart, and funny handbook for apostates.”
Die-hard RHOA fans have likely already read NeNe Leakes’ 2009 memoir Never Make the Same Mistake Twice: Lessons on Love and Life Learned the Hard Way. In it, she chronicles her difficult childhood, experience in an abusive relationship, working in a strip club, life as a single mom, and more, all as she worked her way toward becoming a Bravo icon.
More recent additions to the Real Housewives bookshelf include a trio of books from past and present RHOBH stars: Dorit Kemsley’s Unburdened, Lisa Rinna’s You Better Believe I’m Gonna Talk About It, and Garcelle Beauvais’ Protecting My Peace: At All Costs.
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