Singles

Karen Brichoux, Coffee & Kung Fu.
A woman obsessed by Jackie Chan movies finds a kindred spirit working in a coffee shop but is swept off her feet by a wealthy man.

Betsy Burke, Lucy’s Launderette.
When an artist’s grandfather dies and leaves her his launderette, she’s determined to make it the hippest place in town.

Candace Bushnell, 4 Blondes.
The escapades of 4 rich, fashionable New York women, from the creator of Sex in the City.

Meg Cabot, The Boy Next Door.
E-mail exchanges reveal a New York gossip columnist’s adventures when a neighbor is attacked and a man claiming to be the victim’s nephew appears.

Laura Caldwell, The Year of Living Famously.
A woman tries to deal with life in the spotlight when her new husband becomes a famous movie star.

Rebecca Campbell, Slave to Fashion.
A Londoner in the fashion industry loses everything when she cheats on her boyfriend—who happens to be her boss’s son.

Claire Cook, Must Love Dogs.
A divorced preschool teacher who hasn’t had a date in two years resorts to the personal ads.

Megan Crane, English as a Second Language.
A New York woman attends graduate school in Great Britain and deals with academics, relationships and cultural differences.

Jennifer Crusie, Faking It.
An artist trying to retrieve a painting she forged ends up hiding in a closet with a man trying to get back $3 million that was stolen from him.

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.

Hilary de Vries, So 5 Minutes Ago.
A celebrity publicist who deals with demanding clients finds her job in jeopardy when her firm is bought by a larger company with a hidden agenda.

Katie Fforde, The Rose Revived.
A would-be actress, a single mother, and a poor but proud woman join a housecleaning firm and help each other through their problems.

Valerie Frankel, Smart vs. Pretty.
Sibling rivalry rears its ugly head when two sisters—one smart, one pretty—are forced to pitch in to save their family coffeehouse business.

Olivia Goldsmith, Bad Boy.
A journalist agrees to make over her “computer nerd” friend into a “bad boy” so he can attract women, then realizes she loved him as he was.

Laurie Graff, You Have to Kiss a Lot of Frogs.
A New York actress looks back at over fifteen years of dating involving disastrous fix-ups, strange chance encounters and missed opportunities.

Jane Green, Mr. Maybe.
A young publicist on the make is torn between a sexy but broke man and a rich but boring banker.

Wendy Holden, Simply Divine.
A magazine journalist is horrified when her boss assigns her to ghostwrite a column for a vacuous socialite, but soon finds her life changing.

Ariel Horn, Help Wanted Desperately.
Faced with the options of moving in with her parents or teaching English on a remote island, a college senior desperately seeks employment.

Caroline Hwang, In Full Bloom.
A woman working at a fashion magazine in New York receives an unexpected visit from her mother, who wants her to marry a Korean man.

Amy Jenkins, Honeymoon.
A bride-to-be starts having second thoughts when she reminisces about a man she lost contact with seven years ago.

Lisa Jewell, Thirty Nothing.
Two best friends realize they have romantic feelings for each other, but an old flame from the past threatens their happiness.

Donna Kauffman, Dear Prince Charming.
A sportswriter agrees to take the place of his gay friend who writes a romantic advice column for women when a magazine does a cover story on him.

Kim Wong Keltner, The Dim Sum of All Things.
A woman living with her traditional Chinese grandmother falls for a non-Asian co-worker and tries to find a balance between two cultures.

Beth Kendrick, My Favorite Mistake.
A culinary writer returns home to Minnesota to help her pregnant, abandoned sister and is reunited with a former love.

Julie Kenner, The Givenchy Code.
A woman receives cryptic messages which she must decode or die, leading her through the streets of Manhattan with the help of a handsome stranger.

Marian Keyes, Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married.
When a woman is told by a fortune teller that she’ll marry the man she least expects, she starts a relationship with an unstable man while drifting apart from her best male friend.

Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic.
A woman whose shopping addiction lands her in debt comes up with creative solutions for survival. Sequels are Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, Shopaholic Ties the Knot, and Shopaholic & Sister.

Cara Lockwood, I Do (But I Don’t).
Two of a wedding planner’s events go awry in one day, but a sexy firefighter comes to the rescue.

Sue Margolis, Spin Cycle.
A single mom trying to become a stand-up comic is engaged to a boring dentist but is drawn to a sexy washing machine repairman.

Sarah Mason, Playing James.
A reporter is assigned to the crime beat and tags along with a sexy detective who hates the press.

Carole Matthews, For Better, For Worse.
A woman meets the man of her dreams on a flight to a wedding but loses track of him once they land.

Anna Maxted, Getting over It .
A writer for a trendy women's magazine copes with the loss of her father and other more mundane disasters.

Phoebe McPhee, The Alphabetical Hook-up List.
Three college freshmen dare each other to each kiss 26 boys with names beginning with every letter of the alphabet. In 3 parts: A-J, K-Q, R-Z.

Jill Medoff, Good Girls Gone Bad.
A woman obsessed with the man who dumped her joins group therapy and meets other single women with a variety of problems.

Sarah Mlynowski, Fishbowl.
Three very different roommates who get on each other’s nerves must join forces to raise money after a fire damages their kitchen.

Jaclyn Moriarty, Feeling Sorry for Celia.
An Australian teen’s best friend runs away, but a pen pal assignment soon leads to a new friend and a secret admirer.

Claire Naylor, Catching Alice.
After losing her job, her apartment, and her boyfriend, Alice moves to L.A. and acquires a new career, a new wardrobe, and her very own stalker.

Erica Orloff, Mafia Chic.
The granddaughter of a Mafia don tries to run an honest business, but a sexy FBI agent keeps turning up at her restaurant.

Melissa Pritchard, Disappearing Ingenue.
Eight interrelated stories track a woman from her awkward childhood through a troubled adolescence and disappointing adulthood to freedom.

Laurie Shapiro, The Matzo Ball Heiress.
A woman trying to save her family’s matzo business agrees to allow their Passover seder to be broadcast on the Food Channel.

Jane Sigaloff, Technical Hitch.
A wedding planner oversees the fairy-tale wedding of a movie star and a secretary and then ends up leaving her own fiancé at the altar.

Sonia Singh, Bollywood Confidential.
A struggling American actress of Indian descent agrees to take a role in a Bollywood movie but is taken aback by life in India—and her aloof costar.

Robyn Sisman, Weekend in Paris.
A small-town girl with a disappointing London job and a boorish boss takes an impulsive trip to Paris and is caught up in an adventure.

Gemma Townley, Little White Lies.
Disappointed when a move to London doesn’t lead to an exciting new life, a woman begins opening invitations sent to the former tenant of her flat.

Jennifer Van der Kwast, Pounding the Pavement.
A woman tries to make ends meet with a series of temp and freelance jobs after being laid off.

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.

Elizabeth Young, A Promising Man.
A British woman falls for the boyfriend of her beautiful friend, whom she envies.