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Sue's Chick Lit List #2
The popularity of this genre continues. The authors listed below describe what they consider chick lit. They say that it's sharp, contemporary women's fiction, laced with witty, self-deprecating humor. The books deal with real modern day issues that affect young women. Lots of the women in the books have crummy jobs, scruffy apartments, hopeless boyfriends, and nagging mothers. And, coincidentally, many of the books have pink covers!  Look for all of these books in Adult Fiction under the author's name.


Meg Cabot

    Boy Meets Girl
    A fun urban fairy tale about life and love in the HR Department.

    The Boy Next Door
    Humor, romance, cooking tips, Great Danes, and heroine in peril all unfold through a series of e-mails, instant messages and journal entries.

    Every Boy's Got One
    A day-by-day travel journal intended as a first anniversary present, turns into a private diary account of the madcap events leading up to a Italian countryside elopement.
Jennifer Coburn
    Reinventing Mona
    A character-rich novel about following one's impulses, embracing change, and finally taking a chance on love.
Elizabeth Crane
    All This Heavenly Glory: Stories
    From the time she moved to New York as a young girl, desperate to tame her ridiculed Southern accent, Charlotte Anne Byers has struggled to fit in - even while her strong will makes her clash with everything and everyone around her.

    When the Messenger is Hot: Stories
    The women in these stories are fierce and kind, damagedand optimistic. They are recovering from loss or addiction or betrayal, or they are on the fringes of reality or sanity or a "conventional" life.
Wendy Holden
    Bad Heir Day
    After being dumped by her rich, handsome boyfriend, Anna vows to give up men forever. She takes a job as a nanny in a ritzy Kensington home where she finds herself living with the family from hell.
    Also in Large Print

    Gossip Hound
    Love and lust in a floundering publishing house where public relations pitfalls abound.

    Simply Divine
    A struggling, twenty-something writer for a glossy women's magazine has inadvertently just landed her worst nightmare of an assignment: her eccentric magazine editor has made her the personal ghostwriter for the town's latest bedazzling, blonde and busty socialite.
Donna Kauffman
    The Big Bad Wolf Tells All
    A fast-paced, sexy romp in which a woman who's a self-avowed Lone Wolf - with a trail of broken hearts behind her - finds herself face to face with love.
Naomi Neale
    Calendar Girl
    Nan Cloutier is determined to let go of her past and present hurts, find a permanent job, and fall in love with the right guy.

    Mile High Hair Club
    A cast of quirky, yet surprisingly realistic characters and lots of saucy Southern charm create a story of family, friendship, and love that is deliciously fun and simply irresistible.
Sheila Norton
    Would I Lie to You?
    Nothing is quite what it seems. Beneath the sparkling surface of every perfect life is a huge mess that no one has a clue how to clean up, and getting honest about messing it all up may just be the best thing that's ever happened.
Andrea Semple
    The Ex-Factor
    A hip, hilarious debut novel in which Semple skewers big-city mating rituals from a whole new angle - through the story of London advice columnist Martha Seymore, who is smart, sassy. . . and suddenly single.