Hey, I won't lie. I love curling up in bed and reading about a city-girl twenty-something who has job issues, weight issues, boy issues, parent issues and frenemy issues just like I do. And the fact that there's always a happy ending complete with a handsome, successful, faithful man who has never heard of financial troubles makes me feel all warm---read: jealous---inside. Below, my six, read-them-over-and-over-again favorites.
Jemima J by Jane Green
Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella
Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
Something Blue by Emily Giffin (but read Something Borrowed first)
Baby Proof by Emily Giffin
Second Helpings by Megan McCafferty (but read Sloppy Firsts first)
A Google search confirmed that Melissa Bank's two novels, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing and The Wonder Spot, are indeed "chick lit." I don't agree. They're more melancholy than, say, Confessions of a Shopaholic, so I refuse to add them to this list, despite the fact that they're two of my favorite novels. And even though it's not on here, Helen Fieldings's Bridget Jones's Diary must be hailed as the founding chick of "chick lit."
And just to clarify: thought the title of this post might suggest otherwise, Jane Austen rules. How can any woman not honor the woman who gave the world Mr. Darcy? Or the possibility of a happy ending shared with a darling---yet often shy---suitor regardless of beauty, class or family trubs? (I'm looking at you, Lydia Bennet.)
Itching to read:
Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin
(Gawd, don't you just love her color scheme?)
1 comment:
nice blog! i like your pop culture commentary. :) i've subscribed to you in my RSS reader.
anyway, i loved the confessions of a shopaholic series! i'm not even big on shopping but they were just really cute books.
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