So What is Chick Lit?

Chick Lit focuses on twentysomething and thirtysomething women who are dealing with that time in life when a woman looks for the perfect guy, apartment, job or, yes, shoe. Along the way these women question everything from the way they were raised to the the quality of their lives. The characters typically are either self-deprecating or overly analytical. At its best the writing is witty, bold and slightly irreverent. Here are some of the best-known titles:

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY (Movie version is Someone Like You) Laura Zigman Bantam Books ISBN: 0385319037	APOCALIPSTICK Sue Margolis Delta ISBN: 038533656X
THE BACHELOR Carly Phillips Warner Books ISBN: 0446610542	BOOKENDS Jane Green Broadway Books ISBN: 0767907817
THE BOY NEXT DOOR Meg Cabot HarperCollins ISBN: 0060096195	BRIDGET JONES' DIARY Helen Fielding Penguin USA ISBN: 014028009X
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA Lauren Weisberger Doubleday ISBN: 038550926X	DIARY OF A MAD BRIDE Laura Wolf Delta ISBN: 0385335830
FOR BETTER FOR WORSE Carole Matthews Avon ISBN: 0380820447	GIRLS GUIDE TO HUNTING AND FISHING Melissa Bank Penguin USA ISBN: 0140293248
GOSSIP GIRL Cecily von Zeigesar Little Brown and Company ISBN: 0316910333	GOOD IN BED Jennifer Weiner Washington Square Press ISBN: 0743418174
THE NANNY DIARIES Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus Griffin Trade Paperback ISBN: 0312291639	PRIDE, PREJUDICE AND JASMIN FIELD Melissa Nathan Avon ISBN: 0060184957
THE QUALITY OF LIFE REPORT Meghan Daum Viking Press ISBN: 0670032131	RUN CATCH KISS Amy Sohn Simon & Schuster ISBN: 0684853027
SEX AND THE CITY Candace Bushnell Warner Books ISBN: 0446673544	SHOPAHOLIC TIES THE KNOT Sophie Kinsella Delta ISBN: 0385336179

Do note that when the books focus on male characters, it's Lad Lit.

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