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Cindy Crawford loves a scary bestseller, Hilary Rhoda reads Bill Clegg's memoir, and Heidi Klum enjoys Pinkalicious with her daughter. The Daily Beast polls models to find out what's on their nightstands and Kindles.

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Cindy Crawford just finished Audrey Niffenegger's Her Fearful Symmetry, which she called “good but a little spooky!” She also recently plowed through (and loved) Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain.

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Heidi Klum is busy running a jewelry business and helming a hit TV show. But at home, she's enjoying some lighter fare: Pinkalicious, by Victoria and Elizabeth Kann, which she's reading with her daughter. Project Runway contestants, if you want to impress your judge, take note: Think pink.

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Hilary Rhoda, the 20-year-old bombshell with thick eyebrows who has graced Forbes' list of top-earning models, is reading Bill Clegg's sex- and drug-filled memoir, Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man, in her spare time.

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Joan Smalls, the 21-year-old Puerto Rican model who has walked catwalks from Rodarte to Vera Wang, must be getting what she wants behind the scenes. She's reading the Little Green Book of Getting Your Way: How to Speak, Write, Present, Persuade, Influence, and Sell Your Point of View to Others by Jeffrey Gitomer.

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Nicole Trunfio, who got her start when she won the Australian show Search for a Supermodel, has modeled for fashion houses from Gucci to Christian Dior. And on her nightstand, she's sticking to the classics, too: She's reading Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.

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Senegal native Aminata Niaria, who was discovered by Lanvin designer Alber Elbaz, is sticking with French literature. She's switching off between high and low culture, reading both Une Femme sous surveillance by Patricia McDonald and Fascination, which is Stephenie Meyer's Twilight in French.

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Jamaican newcomer Gaye McDonald is reading Eleven Minutes, Paulo Coelho's 2003 novel about a young prostitute.

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Another Coelho fan: Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Ariel Meredith is reading his bestseller, The Alchemist.

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New York-born model and It Girl Coco Young takes time off from the party scene to read By Nightfall, a novel by Michael Cunningham.

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Fresh-faced Marike Le Roux, who was born in South Africa, raised in Korea, and has been featured in the pages of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, is now devouring heavier stuff in The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins.

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