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good chick lit
  • loveitloveit
    Posts: 1,738Member
    Hey gals! Does anyone have any chick lit recommendations? I read all the time...I loved the Shopoholic series, Jane Green, Slammerkin, Post Birthday World, etc. I don't like sci fi or murders at all. Any recommendations?
  • Luvlyssa
    Posts: 2,951Member
    Seduction and snacks :)
    Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim.
  • km.mamma
    Posts: 129Member
    Fifty shades
  • SammieSammie
    Posts: 7,277Administrator, Moderator
    Anything by Jodi Picoult. A lot of her stuff is deep, but I've seriously fallen in love with every single one of her books on some level.

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  • SerendipitySerendipity
    Posts: 635Member
    Asking for trouble is hilarious
  • PDXcocoPDXcoco
    Posts: 531Member
    Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
  • Lakegirl34
    Posts: 1,766Member
    I just read all of Jennifer Weiners books. I would start with Little Earthquakes.
  • Lakegirl34
    Posts: 1,766Member
    And I love Marian Keyes- start with Rachel's Holiday and all the Walsh sister books
  • BeerWenchBeerWench
    Posts: 2,820Member
    Love Lisa See
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  • loveitloveit
    Posts: 1,738Member
    Thanks for the suggestions!!! :)
  • Quilting_grandmaQuilting_grandma
    Posts: 100Member
    The author who wrote confessions of a shopaholic I just read one by her called I got your number ... Really great read....
  • meandmy243meandmy243
    Posts: 6,335Member
    The arrivals by meg mitchell moore
    debbie maccomber if you like a story line with your romance
    slummy mummy by fiona neill
    something borrowed, something blue, baby proof by emily griffen
    smart women by judy blume
    the memory keepers daughter by kim edwards
    butterfly child by angela davis-gardner
    everyone worth knowing by lauren weisberger
    These are a few i really enjoy.
    mom of wild children
    going to the chapel 7/5/2014
  • CrashCrash
    Posts: 8,191Member
    What is 'chick lit'? Is like...no brainer reading that is just light and fluffy? Lol. Ok well I don't know if these will fit in...but here are my favorite girl centered novels/series:

    Diana Gabaldon, the Outlander series.
    Maeve Binchy: Any of them really, once you've read one, you've kind of read them all, but I like 'em anyway.
    Jacqueline Carey: The Kushiel series
    Laurell K. Hamilton: the vampire series. 
    See ya in another life, sister!
  • KrabbyKay
    Posts: 2,419Member
    OUTLANDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Heh. Can you tell I like it? Her friend, ohhh Lord....hang on let me get the Kindle...Sara Donati writes a similar series which is also enjoyable. In fact, I can't recommend reading them at the same time, you'll get all kinds of fuckered up about who is doing what where. Er...well....that is if you're a weirdo like me and read 3 or so books at the same time...
  • 456Imamom
    Posts: 538Member
    I'm a huge fan of Emily Giffin's books (Something Borrowed, etc). I have her last 2, but haven't had time to read them yet. They are going to be my nursing in the middle of the night reads when baby comes :D
  • MarySunshineMarySunshine
    Posts: 5,453Member
    Sarah Addison Allen writes some great books with female protagonists! They're all based in North Carolina.
    Garden Spells
    The Sugar Queen
    The Girl Who Chased the Moon
    The Peach Keeper
    She has one in the works right now.
    I'm as sexy as a burp mid-kiss. Watch out!

  • stinkersmommystinkersmommy
    Posts: 1,322Member
    Fern Micheals---- The Sisterhood Series (abt 12bks) they are soooo good!!!
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  • somanyboysandmesomanyboysandme
    Posts: 339Member
    Some are already up there but
    Sophia Kinsella
    Meg Cabot
    Jane Green
    Jane Porter
    Nancy Thayer
    Carole Matthews
    Anna Maxsted
    Tinsley Mortimer
    Miriam Keyes
    Emily Griffin
    Jennifer Weirner
    Jodi Piccoult
    Megan Crane

    That's just a few. However one of the best books I have read is She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb.


  • GrainneGrainne
    Posts: 860Member
    Marian Keyes!!! Makes me laugh out loud with tears running down my face.
  • SalllyWingo
    Posts: 1,572Member
    Kristin Hannah & Elin Hilderbrand easy reads too
  • warriormommy3warriormommy3
    Posts: 206Member
    emily giffen has some great stuff.. jenny lawsen AND anything by JEN LANCASTER ! her memoirs are the most hilarious thing ive ever read!~ 
  • BlueEyedMommaBlueEyedMomma
    Posts: 39Member
    Emily Giffin's Something Borrowed followed by Something Blue
    I've decided the crap that's happened in my life was really the fertilizer for the roses I'm smelling now! - S.J.R.
  • nikkier
    Posts: 5Member
    Sophia Kinsella is wonderful.  I didn't read the Shopaholic books, but everything else is really funny.

    Susan Elizabeth Phillips is good too - I think I started with Match Me if You Can but she has a whole series with reoccurring characters.

    I love, love, love, Laurie Notaro!  She writes memoirs that have me laughing out loud.
  • SaraMommySaraMommy
    Posts: 863Member
    I love Barbara Freethy! She writes those feel good romance books. Also really enjoy Kathleen Brooks! Also, a couple of older books...Lovely Bones, Lucky and The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold. I also second the Jodi Picoult recommenations...I LOVE all of her books!
  • TheMomFactorTheMomFactor
    Posts: 1,903Member


    leopardgirle said:

    Janet Evanovich writes the Stephanie Plum series.... The first book is One for the money, they just made a movie out of it last year. But there is 15 or more and they get better and better :)



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  • SwissCheeseArmyKnifeSwissCheeseArmyKnife
    Posts: 36Member
    Don't really know what you mean my chick lit but I'm reading The Black Dagger Brotherhood series right now. It's pretty steamy ;)
  • LivLiv
    Posts: 22Member
    Not sure if she has been mentioned but everything by Kristan Higgans is an easy and fun read.
    Dizzy in this Never-Ending Holding Pattern

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