Best of Chick Lit:
Humorous Women’s Fiction

                                                    FIC CABOT

                                                    Cabot, Meg.

                              Boy Meets Girl.

                              Every Boy's Got One.

                                                    The Princess Diaries author writes some really funny chick lit novels.

                                                    Her unique touch?  The plots unfold through emails, voicemail, and other

                                                    inventive means.

 

FIC DUNN

Dunn, Sarah.

The Big Love: a Novel.

Alison’s live-in boyfriend pops out to the store to buy mustard and doesn’t return.  Instead,

he calls from a pay phone to tell her he’s in love with someone else.  Dunn moves beyond

cliché in this funny and wise first novel about going for the big love or broke.

 

                                                    FIC FIELDING

                                                    Fielding, Helen.

                              Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason.

                              Bridget Jones’s Diary. 

                                                    . . . it captures neatly the way modern women teeter between “I am

                                                    woman” independence and a pathetic girlie desire to be all things to all

                                                    men.      The New York Times Book Review.

 

FIC GIFFIN

Giffin, Emily.

Something Borrowed.

Mousy Rachel breaks out of the mold when she sleeps with her best friend’s fiancé on her

30th birthday.  Trouble is, Rachel really is in love with him and her best friend’s a nasty

person, so it is easy to betray her.

 

                          FIC GREEN

                          Green, Jane.

               Jemima J.: a Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans.

                          Ugly duckling Jemina Jones decides to find love on the net, complete with a digitally   

                          altered photograph.  When she hooks up with an American who wants to meet her, she

                          needs to become the beauty she’s claimed to be—and in the process learns that being

                          beautiful is no guarantee to happiness.