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If You Liked Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary, you might enjoy . . .
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TIP: Published in 1996, Bridget Jones's Diary became a best-seller and created a literary genre known as "chick lit" — funny, light-hearted novels about single young women searching for love, job satisfaction and self-acceptance. Look for more chick lit by searching the library catalog for the subject Chick lit.
- Bank, Melissa
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(1999)These linked short stories are about Jane Rosenal, from age 14 into her twenties.
- Barker, Raffaella
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(2001)The diary of a young, suddenly single mother of three, that recounts the ups and downs of the first year of her divorce from a man who runs a pet mortuary.
- Bartolomeo, Christina
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(1998)Diana Campanella owns a vintage clothing shop in Washington, D.C. The men in her life are her fiancé Philip, a sophisticated D.C. lawyer, and Harry, a New York lawyer of working-class origins like Diana herself.
- Campbell, Rebecca
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(2002)In this wickedly funny first novel, Katie Castle works for a chic London designer and expects to marry her son. All comes crashing down, however, when Katie enjoys a fling with a vendor and loses her boyfriend, her job and her apartment in quick succession.
- Carroll, Claudia
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(2007)Amelia Lockwood doesn't mean to sound greedy. With a fabulous career in television, a posh apartment and four fiercely loyal and wickedly funny friends, she knows she should be counting her lucky stars. But as her thirties tick by at an alarming pace, Amelia is getting anxious about the one thing missing in her otherwise successful life — a husband!
- Casey, Maud
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(2001)When Isabel is fired from her job she returns to the midwestern suburb of her childhood where she contends with her single, dating mother and becomes a "mystery shopper" for a temp agency.
- Christensen, Kate
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(1999)"Claudia Steiner is a depressive Bridget Jones; she's smarter and more introspective, but with the same Gen X angst." Library Journal, April 1, 1999
- Colgan, Jenny
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(2001)One glimpse of Addison, and London florist Holly is smitten. Now the only problem is how to get him to swivel his chair away from the computer screen and his ugly—not to mention possessive—Internet girlfriend, Claudia.
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(2004)Meet Emma: she'll do whatever it takes to make true love last in this follow-up to 32AA.
- Curnyn, Lynda
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(2002)Ex-girlfriend Emma Carter has a lot on her mind. Her boyfriend got a life—in L.A. But before Emma can get on with her life, she's got to face a few startling truths about being single in New York City.
- Davis, Jill
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(2002)A laugh-out-loud look at friendship, work and love.
- Denham, Holly
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(2009)Meet Holly Denham. It's her first day as a receptionist at a London investment bank and inexperienced Holly is struggling. Take a peek at her email and you'll see why: Holly's inbox is a daily source of drama. An affair with a sexy VP heats things up at the office, but when Holly's first flame (who, she thinks, left her in the lurch) gets a job at the same company, complications abound.
- Finnamore, Suzanne
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(1999)Otherwise engaged dashes our soap-bubble fantasies of weddings in favor of a hilariously realistic walk to the altar.
- Fitzgerald, Laura
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(2006)This compelling debut follows one spirited young woman from the confines of Iran to the intoxicating freedom of America — where she discovers not only an enticing new country but the roots of her own independence.
- Ford, Marjorie Leet
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(2001)A young American woman, still smarting from the end of a long love, endures the trials and tribulations of becoming an au pair to an upper-middle-class (but highly disorganized) English family.
- Gayle, Mike
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(2000)Is Londoner Benjamin Duffy ready for marriage?
- Gold, Emma
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(2003)There's a new British girl in town and she's taking no prisoners as she tells about men, sex, relationships, sex, love, sex, searching for Mr. Right and dissing Mr. Oh-So-Wrong.
- Green, Jane
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(2001)To Libby Mason, Mr. Right means Mr. Rich. She's barely able to afford her fashionable lifestyle and often has to foot the bill for dates with Struggling Writer Nick. When Ed, Britain's wealthiest but stodgiest bachelor, enters the picture, her idea of a fairy-tale romance is turned on its head.
- Holden, Wendy
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(2001)Anna gives up men forever, becomes a nanny and finds herself living with a family whose members are caricatures of her worst dreams. Who will save her? Will it be the Scotsman Jamie, heir to a castle?
- Hornby, Nick
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(1998) )Read about the London singles scene from the male point of view.
- Jewell, Lisa
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(2002)One-hit wonder takes readers into the thrill-a-minute life of Ann Wills, wannabe pop star.
- Johnson, Diane
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(2003)Amy Hawkins travels to a ski resort in the French Alps to improve her French and find culture.
- Kennedy, Erica
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(2009)Peopled with vivid, hilarious characters, Feminista is fast-moving novel with themes of independence, image and the complicated relationship between the sexes.
- Keyes, Marian
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(1998)Claire's husband announces he's leaving her for another woman just after their daughter is born, so she leaves London for her family in Dublin.
- Kinsella, Sophie
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(2000)Londoner Rebecca Bloomwood, who can't resist a garment on sale, meets Luke Brandon, a financial genius. The romp begins and the laughs go on.
- Lette, Kathy
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(1999)Sex, lies, and relationship angst play out to hilarious consequences in this comic novel by a young Australian writer.
- Lloyd, Josie and Emlyn Rees
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(1999)Told in "he-said, she-said" alternating chapters, this book takes readers into the London singles scene, where a woman looking for the love of her life meets up with a man looking for the love of tonight.
- Markoe, Merrill
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(2002)Comedy writer Markoe makes her fiction debut in this tale of an L.A. woman's ongoing quest to find happiness.
- Matthews, Carole
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(2006)Kate wonders if there is more to life than her comfortable marriage and sets off to find herself while leaving her family in the care of a six-foot, Amazonian au pair.
- Sanchez, Patrick
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(2001)With crackling wit and an unerring eye for detail, Sanchez's debut delivers a portrait of a trio of urban twenty-something women searching for the perfect job, the perfect apartment and the perfect man—or woman.
- Walker, Laura Jensen
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(2006)She'll shave her head, leave her church, fall for a man in scrubs, learn to tap and flash a roomful of women. Natalie needs to know with or without her breasts she is more than the sum of her parts.
- Weiner, Jennifer
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(2001)Smart, sassy, plus-size pop-culture journalist Cannie Shapiro is having a terrible twenty-eighth year. Her mother has come out of the closet, her father has dropped out of her life, and her ex-boyfriend is documenting their ex-sex-life on the pages of a national women's magazine.
- Weisberger, Lauren
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(2003)Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands a job as the assistant to the high-profile editor of "Runway" magazine. Andrea soon finds herself in a fashion empire where she is sorely tested each day. Soon, Andrea begins to realize that the job a million girls would die for may just kill her.
- Witchel, Alex
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(2002)A sharp, bracingly funny first novel about the city vs. the suburbs, the backbiting world of women's magazines and the latest twists in the relationship between men and women.
- Wolcott, James
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(2001)This is a comedy of contemporary manners that focuses on the the hapless foibles of an unmarried man.
- Zigman, Laura
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(2000)Zigman's second novel introduces Ellen Frank, a successful single career woman whose one desire — a child of her own — throws her into the desperate ranks of the "reproductively challenged."