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My Not So Perfect Life

Sophie Kinsella

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Diary of a Chav

Grace Dent

Fifteen-year-old Shiraz Bailey Wood's days are filled with hanging around outside Claire's Accessories, her parents work crap jobs, and her school is pretty much loser central. But this loveable British dreamer with a brain and a heart of gold is beginning to feel there might be a lot more to life than minimum wage and the bling of a souped-up car.

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The Little Lady Agency

Hester Browne · 480 pages

Reviled by her snobby family but adored by her friends, unemployed etiquette expert Melissa Romney-Jones reinvents herself as Honey, and goes into business as a matchmaker for inept bachelors.

Chick LitWomen's FictionContemporary FictionClassism
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Bergdorf Blondes

Plum Sykes · 316 pages

Welcome to the world of Park Avenue Princesses, the girls who careen through Manhattan in search of perfect Fake Bake (tan acquired from Portofino Tanning Salon), a ride on a PJ (private jet) with the ATM rich boyfriend), and the ever elusive fiance.

Chick LitWomen's FictionContemporary FictionClassism
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What Comes After Crazy

Sandi Kahn Shelton · 320 pages

Growing up as the daughter of Madame Lucille, "Fortune-Teller to the Stars," Maz Lombard wants nothing more than a normal life, but her plans go awry when her daughter becomes convinced that she has inherited the family psychic talent.

Chick LitWomen's FictionContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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Chasing Harry Winston

Lauren Weisberger · 304 pages

Women's FictionChick LitContemporary FictionClassism
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Life After Forty

Dora Heldt · 232 pages

Chick LitWomen's FictionContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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A Perfect Match

Sinead Moriarty · 336 pages

After two years of being deafened by the TICKTOCK of her biological clock and tormented by Mother Nature's refusal to grant her a baby, Emma Hamilton decides to go for the instant solution: finding a Russian baby in need of a home. But Emma hasn't reckoned on the route to adoption being so complicated. Between proving that she's fit to be a mother (by inventing an unblemished past and discovering

Chick LitWomen's FictionContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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40 Love

Madeleine Wickham · 276 pages

A weekend tennis party becomes study of modern marriage for four very different couples of varying economic, social, and interest levels as together they encounter two days of anger, shock, revelations, and romance.

Chick LitWomen's FictionContemporary FictionClassism
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Etta Mae's Worst Bad-Luck Day

Ann B. Ross · 320 pages

Frustrated with her life in the trailer park, Etta Mae Wiggins dreams of something better, but her ambition to marry a wealthy elderly man is challenged by the man's scheming children, her ex's underworld enemies, and her former flame Bobby Lee.

Working-Class ProtagonistWomen's FictionContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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The Woman Who Upped and Left: A laugh-out-loud read that will put a spring in your step!

Fiona Gibson · 389 pages

The laugh-out-loud bestseller is back with the only book to buy this Mother's Day. Perfect for fans of 'Outnumbered' and Carole Matthews, Fiona writes about life as it really is.** Forget about having it all. Sometimes you just want to leave it all behind. Audrey is often seized by the urge to walk out of her house without looking back - but she can't possibly do that. She is a single parent. She

Chick LitWomen's FictionContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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Flora's Lot

Katie Fforde · 416 pages

Chick LitWomen's FictionContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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Four Blondes

Candace Bushnell · 307 pages

In her second novel, “Four Blondes”, Bushnell gives readers another uncensored look into the mating rituals of the Manhattan elite. In four novellas, Bushnell uses wry humor and frank portrayals of love and lust to deliver four clever, hilarious and socially relevant stories. “Four Blondes” was a critical and commercial success. With “Sex and the City” and “Four Blondes”, Bushnell’s work spawned a

Chick LitWomen's FictionContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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The Pile of Stuff at the Bottom of the Stairs

Christina Hopkinson · 378 pages

What's the thing you hate most about the one you love? This is the funniest, most acutely-observed novel about marriage and motherhood, children and work that's been seen in years.

Chick LitWomen's FictionContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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The Woman Who Stole My Life

Marian Keyes · 338 pages

'Name: Stella Sweeney. Height: average. Recent life events: dramatic.' One day, sitting in traffic, married Dublin mum Stella Sweeney attempts a good deed. The resulting car crash changes her life. For she meets a man who wants her telephone number (for the insurance, it turns out). That's okay. She doesn't really like him much anyway (his Range Rover totally banjaxed her car). But in this meeting

Chick LitWomen's FictionContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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Southern as a Second Language

Lisa Patton · 304 pages

Leelee Satterfield's efforts to run a new restaurant with Peter are challenged by her unpredictable friends, a male dog named Roberta, and the return of Leelee's notorious ex-husband.

Chick LitWomen's FictionContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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How To Break Your Own Heart

Maggie Alderson · 382 pages

"Do you always sleep in separate beds?" A question from her outspoken friend Kiki shocks Amelia Bradlow into taking stock of her 'perfect' life. She might haved the adoring husband, the flat in Mayfair and the weekend cottage, but what about the things that really matter? Like the unmentionable matter of the baby they haven't had - back cover.

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That Loving Feeling

Carole Matthews · 428 pages

Juliet Joyce is married with two grown-up children who treat the house like a hotel, a 70 year-old mother who just moved in and a father who's announced he is gay. Nothing prepares her for the unexpected return of Steven Audrey who jilted her years ago. Can Steven sweep her off her feet or can Rick remind her of the loving feeling they've lost.

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Mad About the Boy

Helen Fielding · 400 pages

Londonite Bridget Jones faces the challenges of maintaining sex appeal as the years roll by, the nightmares of drunken texting, the skinny jean, the disastrous e-mail cc, total lack of Twitter followers, and TVs that need ninety buttons and three remotes to simply turn on, all while raising two children, attempting to date again, and writing a screenplay.

Chick LitWomen's FictionContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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Wilde Like Me

Louise Pentland · 391 pages

When single mom Robin Wilde decides to change her life, new opportunities are soon on her horizon.

Chick LitWomen's FictionContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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Swapping Lives

Jane Green · 416 pages

The New York Times bestselling author of The Other Woman returns with a wry tale of two women who discover the grass is not always greener on the other side of the AtlanticVicky Townsley is single, solvent, and seriously successful. Features director of the hugely successful Poise! magazine, she has an amazing flat, good friends, a fantastic wardrobe . . . in short, everything—except the life she

Chick LitWomen's FictionContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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The Opposite of Love

Julie Buxbaum · 360 pages

With perfect pitch for the humor and heartbreak of everyday life, Julie Buxbaum has fashioned a heroine who will be instantly recognizable to anyone who has loved and lost and loved again.When successful twenty-nine-year-old Manhattan attorney Emily Haxby ends her happy relationship just as her boyfriend is on the verge of proposing, she can't explain to even her closest friends why she did it. So

Chick LitWomen's FictionContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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A Woman of Substance

Barbara Taylor Bradford · 843 pages

Emma Harte Lowther Ainsley is seventy-eight years old and one of the richest most powerful women in the world. Self-reliant and ruthless, she uses money as a weapon and adversity as a tool. In her poverty-stricken youth, Emma exhibited an uncommon amount of initiative and intelligence even as a maidservant on a Yorkshire estate. Pregnant and unwed at fifteen, she fled her shameful situation to s

Working-Class ProtagonistWomen's FictionClassismContemporary Fiction
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The Late Blossoming of Frankie Green

Laura Kemp · 320 pages

Chick LitWomen's FictionContemporary FictionFemale Lead

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