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Til divorce do us part: Read all about these rocky marriages, trial separations and divorce proceedings.
CLUB CHALLENGE: Diane Johnson
A series of books about American expats in France, social mores and illicit liaisons. Start with Le Divorce (the movie starred Kate Hudson and Naomi Watts) about Isabel who heads to Paris after her sister's marriage breaks up.
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Wife Goes On - Leslie Lehr Four women face up to the challenges of becoming divorcees. |
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Daisy Dooley Does Divorce - Anna Pasternak According to Daisy Dooley, there's only one thing worse than being thirty-nine and single. Being thirty-nine and divorced. |
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My First Divorce - Sheryn George TV producer Caitlin veers from dream life to ex-wife after finding her assistant . . . er . . . assisting her husband. |
Talking politics: With the US presidential election under way, it's the perfect time to look at some chick lit titles with a political bent.
CLUB CHALLENGE: Kristin Gore's Sammy series
Samantha Joyce is out to make her mark in Washington.
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American Wife - Curtis Sittenfeld Alice Blackwell is thrust into the limelight when husband Charlie becomes a Republican president. |
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The Washingtonienne - Jessica Cutler Like a thinly veiled memoir of Cutler's own time in Washington, intern Jacqueline writes a salacious blog about antics on the Hill. |
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First Lady - Susan Elizabeth Phillips Presidential widow Nealy goes on the run from the White House. |
Going Bolly: Indian chick lit has certainly come of age these past few years. The novels often offer an insight into the juxtapositions between Western and Indian cultures, arranged marriages and romance, and younger and older generations.
CLUB CHALLENGE: Anjali Banerjee
Imaginary MenMatchmaker Lina Ray makes up her own suitor when she returns to India for her sister's wedding. |
Invisible LivesSari shop owner Lakshmi has the ability to perceive the secret longings in others. She has agreed to marry a respectable Indian doctor but instead falls for an American. |
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You Are Here - Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan Looks at the life, loves and friends of 20-something Delhi woman Arshi. |
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The Hindi-Bindi Club - Monica Pradhan The Hindi-Bindi Club is the nickname given to their Indian mothers by daughters Kiran, Preity and Rani. Now the girls are coming home for the holidays. |
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Trust Me - Rajashree Known as the biggest-selling Indian chick lit novel, this follows small-town girl Paro to Bollywood. |
Game on: Read all about footballers behaving badly and their WAGs.
CLUB CHALLENGE: Alison Kervin's WAGs
Find out the rules of WAGdom with the Queen WAG Tracie Martin.
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The Beautiful Game - Claire Challis and Fabulous Welcome to the world of WAGs Louise, Tara, Jodie and Pattii - a world where only the fittest survive. |
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The Footballer's Wife - Kerry Katona Behind closed doors, life as a footballer's other half isn't as perfect as it seems for glamour model Charly. |
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The Inner Gentleman - Alli Kincaid It's up to Mia and her etiquette company to tame star striker Josh. |
Paranormal chick lit: Ready for some magic in your life? Let these books about vampires, magicians and angels - led by some cool female characters- cast a spell on you.
CLUB CHALLENGE: Shanna Swendson's Katie Chandler series
Katie discovers her special abilities while working at Magic, Spells, and Illusions in New York.
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The Ten Best Days of My Life - Adena Halpern Alex has to earn her right to stay in seventh heaven by writing about her 10 best days on Earth. |
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Undead and Unwed - MaryJanice Davidson Read the first in a series about Betsy Taylor who gets killed by an SUV and becomes a Vampire Queen. |
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You Had Me At Halo - Amanda Ashby Holly is sent back to Earth in the body of a computer geek to deal with her mortal baggage. |
Real-life stories: Read all about these women's trials and triumphs in these chick lit memoirs.
CLUB CHALLENGE: Jen Lancaster's memoirs
Lancaster deals with unemployment, life in the big city and her weight problems.
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High Sobriety - Alice King Follow this wine writer's descent into alcoholism. |
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Straight Up and Dirty - Stephanie Klein This tracks Klein's sexual adventures as she jumps back into the dating pool after divorce. |
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The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl - Shauna Reid Reid turns her life around as she becomes half the size she used to be. |
Wedding Planners: What a romantic occupation! Wedding planners help create a gorgeous setting, ensure the day runs smoothly and calm jittery brides and bickering relatives. But sometimes they falter on the path to true love themselves.
CLUB CHALLENGE: Jean Stone's Second Chances seriesFollow the story of four friends who run a second-wedding planning business.
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For Better or For Worse - Diann Hunt Wendy's a wedding coordinator. Marco's a divorce lawyer who opens his practice next door to her wedding chapel. How could these two possibly find common ground? |
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Revenge of the Wedding Planner - Sharon Owens Two friends run Dream Weddings until one has a crisis and runs off to have a fling. |
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I Do (But I Don't) - Cara Lockwood Hyper-organised wedding planner Lauren learns that you can't plan everything, least of all love. |
Yummy Mummies: It's official: woman are feeling the pressure to juggle motherhood, careers and still look perfectly groomed. These characters certainly do.
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Mummy Said The F-Word - Fiona Gibson Cait, a chaotic single mother of three, becomes agony aunt for a glossy magazine targeted at yummy mummies. |
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I Don't Know How She Does It - Allison Pearson Hedge-fund manager Kate Reddy is a frazzled mother of two who's trying to juggle too much. |
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Gucci Mamas - Cate Kendall Every day Mim Woolcott has to negotiate the Carpark Mafia and the Mothers Superior as she drops her children off at their prestigious school. And cracks are beginning to show in her perfect life. |
Magazine market: These books give a view inside a magazine's operations, from stylish staffers and egotistical editors, to fashion shoots and deadline dramas.
CLUB CHALLENGE: Find out if you have what it takes to be shoe editor or a feminist deputy with Chloe and Zoe in Stephanie Lessing's She's Got Issues and Miss Understanding.
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The Making of Mia - Ilana Fox When Jo Hill decides to give herself a makeover and become Mia, the magazine world and her boss at Gloss won't know what's hit them. |
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The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger Walk in Andrea Sachs' shoes as she tries to survive a year under demanding Runway editor-in-chief Miranda Priestley. |
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The Fashion Pack - Marion Hume Three friends run Joy magazine in New York, Paris and Sydney. |
Can't Buy Me Love: Think Valentine's Day was created to torment singles? These books are better than red roses any day.
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The Trouble with Valentine's DayPrivate detective Kate Hamilton's Valentine's Day gets off to a bad start when her advances are rejected by a sexy man in a bar.
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Valentine's Day is Killing MeAn anthology of blind dates, dead bodies, sex toys and cancelled reservations on love's big day.
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This is How it Happened - Jo Barrett Maddy is seeking revenge after her boyfriend of four years dumps her by email. |
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The Break-Up Club - Melissa Senate This tells the story of four people at different stages of breaking up. |
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Hating Valentine's Day - Allison Rushby A wedding photographer is visited by the ghost of Valentine's Day past, present and future. |
DEAR DIARY: It's that time of the year to turn to the first page of a new diary. Read about what some chick lit characters have written in theirs.
CLUB CHALLENGE: Go back to where it all began with Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones and her new year resolutions of what she will and will not do.
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The WAG's Diary - Alison Kervin Tracie Martin, Luton Town FC's longest-serving WAG, sets out to share her wisdom by writing the definitive rulebook. |
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Diary of a South Beach Party Girl - Gwen Cooper Follow the exploits of Rachel Baum, who moves to party town South Beach and spends her days building her career and her nights building a reputation. |
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The Nanny Diaries - Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin Share the horrors of Park Avenue nannying as Nan cares for Grayer, the four-year-son of the overdemanding Mrs X. |
Baby Boom: The arrival of a baby - or the desire for one - changes everything.
CLUB CHALLENGE: Sinead Moriarty's trilogy
Follow Emma Hamilton on her journey to motherhood.
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The Yorkshire Pudding Club - Milly Johnson When three Yorkshire friends picnic on top of an ancient fertility symbol, who would have imagined that within months all three would be pregnant. |
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Little Earthquakes - Jennifer Weiner Three women meet up at a prenatal yoga class - Becky, who's at war with her mother-in-law; Kelly, an overachiever; and Ayinde, who's married to a basketball star. |
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Babyville - Jane Green A tale of two women coping with the chimes of their biological clocks and another who is trying her best to ignore hers. |
In the Red: What happens when someone gets deep in debt?
CLUB CHALLENGE: Shopaholic series
No one burns up the plastic like Rebecca Bloomwood. Read the five books in Sophie Kinsella's series about the financially challenged financial journalist. Make sure you read the books in order:
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Shoe Addicts Anonymous - Beth Harbison Four women who put their souls - and bank balances - on the line in the name of shoes. |
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Tales of a Drama Queen - Lee Nichols Elle needs to start all over again - and avoid a persistent credit card collector. |
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Alice in La La Land - Sophie Lee Find out why Alice is so desperate to succeed in Hollywood. |
Sister Act: We're embracing the theme of sisters.
CLUB CHALLENGE: Walsh sisters series
Read the four books that Marian Keyes has written about the Walsh family.
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The Spinster Sisters - Stacey Ballis Will their business teaching singles to feel empowered suffer when one of them gets engaged? |
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In Her Shoes - Jennifer Weiner Two sisters who share nothing in common, except their shoe size. |
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Three Wishes - Liane Moriarty A turbulent year in the life of the Kettle triplets. Who stabbed who with a fork? |