Sassy, Smart, Female, and Funny:

Contemporary Fiction ... otherwise known as Chick Lit

Provided by the staff at the West Universty Branch Library.

	Rita Ciresi. Remind Me Again Why I Married You Five years ago, Lisa married her boss, Eben and gave birth to a son.   She morphed from a member of the corporate world into a stay-at-home mom and aspiring writer. As their lives begin to bizarrely mirror aspects of Lisa's book...as marital life as they know it teeters on the edge of utter chaos, Lisa and Eben search - apart and together - for the answer to the question that has plagued husbands and wives since time immemorial: Can love survive marriage?
	Danielle Crittenden. Amanda Bright @ Home "Sex and the City" meets "Bridget Jones's Diary" in this hilarious debut novel--the first ever to be serialized by the "Wall Street Journal." When Amanda Bright decides to leave her career to be a stay-at-home mom, Amanda finds that her connections are no preparation for her new life.
	Jennifer Crusie. Faking It Matilda "Tilda" Goodnight and Davy Dempsey both want something gorgeous gold-digger Clea Lewis has. When they cross paths in Clea's bedroom, Tilda and Davy reluctantly join forces to battle with a determined femme fatale, an inept art collector, a disgruntled heir, false identities, and worst of all, real love.
	Katie Fforde. Second Thyme Around British bestseller Fford serves up a delicious romantic comedy about cherished friends, despised ex-husbands and life's greatest joys--sex and cooking.
	Helen Fielding. Bridget Jones’s Diary Bridget Jones's Diary charts a devastatingly self-aware, hilarious year in the life of a thirty-something Singleton. Here is the daily chronicle of her permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement - a year in which she resolves to: reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1 1/2 inches, visit the gym three times a week not merely to buy a sandwich, and form a functional relationship with a responsible adult.
	Jane Green. Bookends In her dazzling new novel, Green turns her eye toward friendship--its twists, turns, and complications--and how it weathers the challenges of love, ambition, marriage, infidelity and, most of all, growing up.
	Marian Keyes. Sushi for Beginners In her five previous novels--"Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married, Rachel's Holiday, Last Chance Saloon, " and "Angels"--Keyes touched hearts and funny bones worldwide. In "Sushi for Beginners" she works her magic once again, introducing three charming women and their search for happiness.
	Sophie Kinsella. Confessions of a Shopaholic In this all-too-true debut novel, Kinsella chronicles one woman's hilarious efforts to overcome her expensive--if stylish--addiction to shopping. The author has brilliantly tapped into our collective consumer conscience to deliver a tale of our times and a heroine who grows stronger every time she weakens.
	Adèle Lang. Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber: the Katya Livingston Chronicles Reminiscent of Candace Bushnell, this debut novel is a cutting, bitchy, hilarious take on the young-single-woman genre. Bitingly written with wit and style, Adele Lang's scathing first novel is "Absolutely Fabulous" meets "Bridget Jones."
	Elinor Lipman. Pursuit of Alice Thrift Poor Alice Thrift is book-smart but people-hopeless. When Ray Russo, social-climbing purveyor of carnival fudge, decides to pursue her romantically, Alice reluctantly follows. "The Pursuit of Alice Thrift" brings the socially tone-deaf Alice out from under the burden of her clueless and beautiful mind.
	Sue Margolis. Spin Cycle The author of "Neurotica" now introduces a stand-up comedian who discovers what's really important lies somewhere between the rinse and spin cycles.
	Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus. The Nanny Diaries Based on real-life experiences, this novel is the inside story on the lives of the rich and privileged from the women who know all their secrets--the nannies.
	Terry McMillan. How Stella Got Her Groove Back Stella Payne is forty-two, divorced, a high-powered investment analyst, mother of eleven-year-old Quincy - and she does it all. In fact, if she doesn't do it, it doesn't get done. Stella doesn't mind too much; she probably wouldn't have the energy for love - and all of love's nasty fallout - anyway. But when Stella takes a spur-of-the-moment vacation to Jamaica, her world gets rocked to the core not just by the relaxing effects of sun and sea and an island full of attractive men, but by one man in particular.
	Allison Pearson. I Don’t Know How She Does It In a novel that is at once uproariously funny and achingly sad, Pearson captures the guilty secret lives of working women--the self-recrimination, the comic deceptions, the giddy exhaustion, and the despair.
	Tracy Price-Thompson. Chocolate Sangria Fast-paced, suspenseful, and full of twists and turns, "Chocolate Sangria" explores the hearts of two lovers caught in a great cultural divide and the trials they face when lies are told and secrets revealed.
	Leigh Riker. Strapless Sent to Australia to open a lingerie store, Darcie Baxter has a passionate affair with a sheep rancher before returning to New York. After a few months and many eye-opening events, Darcie returns Down Under to reconcile with Dylan, who has been desperate to make their newfound relationship work.
	Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez. Dirty Girls Social Club In this heartfelt and absorbing novel, the author opens up the lives of six upwardly mobile Latina friends in their late 20s. Filled with humor, drama and the redemptive power of friendship, this book promises to be one of the most talked about books of the year.
	Jennifer Weiner. Good in Bed This bittersweet book follows plus-sized pop-culture journalist Cannie Shapiro as she comes to terms with the fact that her ex-boyfriend has been chronicling their sex life in a women's magazine.
	Lauren Weisberger. The Devil Wears Prada A deliciously witty and delightfully dishy novel about life at a glamorous fashion magazine, an empire ruled by a legendary editor whose sense of style is topped only by her sense of self-importance.
	Laura Wolf. Diary of a Mad Bride This debut novel brings together in holy matrimony the perfect partnership of "Sex and the City" and "Animal Husbandry." An utterly hilarious read, the novel chronicles one bride's daily descent into wedding madness.