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Chick Lit


Valerie Block, Don’t Make a Scene.
An art-house cinema manager is evicted from her rent-controlled apartment and falls for a Cuban exile whose wife back home won’t divorce him.

Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble.
A college student visits her boyfriend in England but when things go wrong she heads for France where a friend works in a chateau. First in a series.

Laura Caldwell, A Clean Slate.
A woman realizes she has forgotten five months of her life during which she lost her home, job, and boyfriend.

Tori Carrington, Sofie Metropolis. Mystery
After catching her fiancé cheating on their wedding day, a woman takes a job at her uncle’s detective agency in Queens. First in a series.

Katherine Center, The Bright Side of Disaster.
A Texas woman’s fiancé leaves her the day before she gives birth to their child.

Heather Cochran, The Return of Jonah Gray.
A woman working for the IRS becomes intrigued with a man whose tax return she audited.

Megan Crane, Everyone Else’s Girl.
A woman who has created her own life away from her dysfunctional family must return home to care for her father after a car accident.

Jill Davis, Ask Again Later.
When her mother is diagnosed with cancer, a woman ditches her too-perfect boyfriend and far from perfect legal career to become her mother’s primary caregiver.

Kyra Davis, Sex, Murder & A Double Latte. Mystery
A mystery writer investigates the suspicious suicide of a producer who was about to make a movie out of one of her books. First in a series.

Marisa de los Santos, Love Walked In.
A café manager drifts through life until she meets a girl whose mother is having a mental breakdown.

Katie Fforde, Bidding for Love.
A London woman inherits a majority share in the family’s antique business in the countryside.

Whitney Gaskell, Mommy Tracked.
Four young mothers in different situations form a support group to help each other out.

Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed.
A woman who always does the right thing ends up in bed with her best friend’s fiancé.

Jane Green, Babyville.
Three London women cope with different issues of motherhood including infertility, unplanned pregnancy, and life with a newborn.

Gemma Halliday, Spying in High Heels. Paperback Mystery
A shoe designer seeking her missing boyfriend stumbles upon the dead body of her boyfriend’s boss. First in a series.

Beth Harbison, Shoe Addicts Anonymous.
Four D.C.-area women meet weekly to share their designer shoes but soon begin to rely on each other for much more.

Lynn Harris, Death by Chick Lit.
An aspiring writer hopes to boost her career by solving the murders of chick lit authors.

Lisa Jewell, Roommates Wanted.
A man who rented out rooms in his Victorian house after a failed marriage must find a way to get his tenants to leave when he falls in love again.

Cathy Kelly, Someone Like You.
Three very different Irish women become friends on a trip to Egypt and keep in touch after they return to Ireland.

Beth Kendrick, Nearlyweds.
Three recent brides who are having second thoughts about the men they married learn their marriages might not be legal.

Marian Keyes, Sushi for Beginners.
The editor of an elite London fashion magazine is sent to Dublin to start a new women’s magazine.

Sophie Kinsella, Remember Me?
A woman with amnesia can’t remember the past three years or how she acquired a new look, a high-powered job, and a seemingly perfect husband.

Linda Francis Lee, The Ex-Debutante.
A successful Boston attorney returns home to Texas to represent her mother in a divorce and to help with a debutante ball.

Julie Leto, Dirty Little Secrets.
Bounty hunter Marisela Morales wants revenge when she tracks down her ex-boyfriend who skipped bail, not realizing he has a secret agenda.

Karen Lutz, The Bachelorette Party.
A man asks a female friend to help his conservative fiancée loosen up at her bachelorette party.

Sue Margolis, Gucci Gucci Coo.
The owner of a high-end children’s clothing boutique suspects something strange is going on at a birthing center catering to celebrities.

Wendy Markham, Mike, Mike & Me.
A stay-at-home mom married to a man named Mike gets an e-mail from an old flame also named Mike and wonders what her life would be like with him.

Carole Matthews, The Chocolate Lovers’ Club.
Four London women commiserate over chocolate at a local café.

Sarah Mlynowski, Me vs. Me.
Posed with a choice between marriage and the job of her dreams, a woman wishes on a star and finds herself living two different lives.

Jane Moore, The Second Wives Club.
Four women support one another as they deal with stepchildren and their husbands’ previous wives.

Elizabeth Noble, The Reading Group.
Member of a reading group in England help each other cope with issues in their lives while discussing a variety of books.

Jennifer O’Connell, Insider Dating.
A divorced woman develops a database to help other women rate potential mates but one man seems to beat the odds.

Liza Palmer, Conversations with the Fat Girl.
A plus-sized woman feels alienated and alone when her best friend loses weight and gets engaged.

Jane Porter, Flirting with Forty.
A divorced mother goes to Hawaii for her 40th birthday and gets involved with a younger man.

Eileen Rendahl, Balancing in High Heels.
An attorney loses her job and husband and is assigned to defend a vigilante stripper who was arrested by a sexy cop.

Melissa Senate, Love You to Death.
A woman is suspected of killing an ex-boyfriend who cheated on her.

Poonam Sharma, Girl Most Likely To.
An investment banker approaching 30 agrees to let her traditional Indian parents set her up on a date as she tries to figure out what she wants.

Gena Showalter, Catch a Mate.
A woman who distrusts men works for an agency that exposes unfaithful spouses and falls for a new male coworker.

Nancy Star, Carpool Diem.
When a working mother loses her job, she focuses on getting her daughter on the soccer team.

Sarah Strohmeyer, The Cinderella Pact.
A woman turned down for a job as an advice columnist because of her weight creates a thin, beautiful alter ego who is hired sight unseen.

Wendy Nelson Tokunaga, Midori by Moonlight.
A Japanese woman follows an English teacher back to the U.S. but finds herself stranded when he breaks up with her.

Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Dirty Girls Social Club.
Six women who have been friends since college meet twice a year to catch up on their lives.

Jennifer Weiner, Good in Bed.
A woman decides to turn her life around after she reads a column by an ex-boyfriend about their sex life and her weight problems.

Lauren Weisberger, The Devil Wears Prada.
An English major hoping for a job at the New Yorker takes an internship with the demanding editor of a fashion magazine.

Kate White, If Looks Could Kill. Mystery
A journalist agrees to help a magazine editor determine who delivered the box of poisoned chocolates that killed her nanny.

Polly Williams, The Yummy Mummy.
A new mother is taken under the wing of a slim, elegant woman who makes motherhood seem easy.

Laura Wolf, Diary of a Mad Bride.
A woman’s wedding plans spiral out of control.

Elizabeth Young, A Promising Man (And About Time Too).
A London woman gets involved with the boyfriend of a schoolmate she’s always envied.



 

 

 

 

 

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