Sex. The city. Single girl. Cheating boyfriend. Glamorous job. Evil boss. Jimmy Choos. These are some of the staples of chick lit, the popular novels with candy-colored covers that aren't romance and aren't literary, but something in between ... and a little of both. So if you're looking for a fun, light read check out one of these ladies.
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The Next Thing On My List by Jill Smolinksy
Following a car accident that claims the life of her passenger, Marissa, June Parker stumbles upon a list that Marissa had written entitled "20 Things to Do By My 25th Birthday" and is compelled by both guilt and a sense of setting things right to complete the list for Marissa, struggling to complete a variety of different goals before the deadline while learning more about her own life in the process.
The Sleeping Beauty Proposal
by Sarah Strohmeyer
Despairing of finding Mr. Right after years of tiresome dating, thirty-six-year-old Genie Michaels nevertheless falls for a best-selling author who proposes on national television to an anonymous other woman, a humiliating event after which Genie pretends to be the man's fiancee.
Austenland by
Shannon Hale
Because her obsession with Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice," is ruining her love life, Jane Hayes is delighted when she gets the chance to take a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-crazed women.
Death by Chick Lit
by Lynn Harris
Despite her dreams of literary success, Lola Somerville is disturbed that her novel has barely made a ripple in the publishing world, until she finds her author friend Mimi McKee with her throat slashed at a book party, just the first in a series of murders targeting the popular chick lit authors around her.
Shoe Addicts Anonymous by
Beth Harbison
Four very different women who share a common shoe size and a lust for great footwear meet every Tuesday night to trade shoes and form friendships that will help each of them triumph over their problems.
Fashionably Late
by Nadine Dajani
Fearing that she will lose her prestigious accounting job when she fails her final exam, obedient Arabian Muslim Aline Hallaby flees to a Cuban resort town with her best friends and is caught up in a forbidden romance with a handsome diving instructor.
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