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    I need recommendations on the absolute best chick-lit. Funny, sexy, whatever, give it to me ladies! It's almost summertime and the lovely weather makes me want to throw out my serious controversial thrillers and read some fun girly books while sunning myself at the pool. So whatcha got?!

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    Bridget Jones Diary and Pride and Prejudice
    Life and Loves of She Devil
    Practical Magic
    Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
    The Passion

    A little less fun but still girly:
    Joyce Carol Oates - I recommend Foxfire and Because it is Bitter and Because it is My Heart
    Fall On Your Knees - Anne Marie McDonald (if you do not cry you are inhuman and a stake shall be driven through your heart. Just a warning before you buy it.)
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    I would second Jenny's suggestion of Joyce Carol Oates and suggest also Anita Shreve--really anything by her--she is one of our finest writers.
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    Phillipa Gregorys Wideacre trilogy
    Diana Gabaldon - the Outlander series

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    Gone with the Wind

    War and Peace

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    Fun and lighthearted.... Go for Charlain Harris' Southern Vampire series, Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum, or anything Maryjanice Davidson (I scare my hubby laughing out loud while reading her stuff).

    Sexy.. Suzanne Brockmann's Troubleshooters, anything Sherrylin Kenyon, Angela Knight, Lori Foster, Kresley Cole, Lara Adrian or JR Ward. Kenyon and Knight are the least intense reads, imo.

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    "Can you keep a secret" by Sophie Kinsella

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    better yet...Remember Me by Sophie Kinsella (her newest) It was hilarious and dirty. Must read!

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    Ooooh, I really liked Cents and Sensibility.


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    Jackie Collins !?!

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    Quote Originally Posted by justtobenaked View Post
    better yet...Remember Me by Sophie Kinsella (her newest) It was hilarious and dirty. Must read!
    LOL! I just read that. It was cute and a bit better than the Shopaholic series.


    I'm a MAJOR fan of Janet Evanovich though. Stephanie Plum is my girl!



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    Succubus in the City! It reminds me about alot of the stuff we discuss here. Assholes (except they get to kill them), sex, fashion and LUSH baths! LoL.
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    +1 for Gone with the Wind

    If you like funny historical mystery, Carrie Bebris writes Jane Austen based mysteries.

    The Georgia books by Louise Rennison are funny as hell, even though they're YA books.

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    Anything by Meg Cabot or Sophie Kinsella, type in Red Dress Ink in Amazon .com (they are a publisher of chick lit) you will find a ton of great books!!!

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    Whatever you do, do NOT read Shopaholic stuff.

    I started reading it and remembered I had read it before and thought it was shit but kept reading it to see if I forgot it had a good ending.

    Nope, it was just so shit that I had tried to erase it from memory.


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    Friday by Robert Heinlein

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lysondra View Post
    Whatever you do, do NOT read Shopaholic stuff.

    I started reading it and remembered I had read it before and thought it was shit but kept reading it to see if I forgot it had a good ending.

    Nope, it was just so shit that I had tried to erase it from memory.
    That's why I love it.
    There's nothing better than turning off my brain for 2 hours and finishing a vapid book. Otherwise my brain would overheat.



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    I know this is like, the opposite of what you asked for, but this collection of short stories was so entertaining and good: This Is Not Chick Lit

    http://www.amazon.com/This-Not-Chick.../dp/0812975677

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    Quote Originally Posted by ArmySGT. View Post
    Friday by Robert Heinlein
    Chick-lit?



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    Quote Originally Posted by hardkandee View Post
    That's why I love it.
    There's nothing better than turning off my brain for 2 hours and finishing a vapid book. Otherwise my brain would overheat.
    It wasn't 'turn off my brain' chicklit though it was 'omg this makes my brain HURT' chicklit.


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    Saw this little blurb at the end of a story about plastic refuse floating in the ocean: plastic stuff

    This book looked interesting:
    If the actual link to the book didn't copy properly, here it is:
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sheila-weller

    Girls Like Us is the biography of three women who, if we only knew it, probably decided if we'd have sex tonight, and with whom and on what terms. It's 2008 but Joni Mitchell, Carole King and Carly Simon hit a wave in the late '60s and early '70s, and they changed relations between men and women. Young women readers, listen up. Joni Mitchell's strait-laced admirable Prairie housewife mother vacuumed her garage every day. That's what one of the greatest artists of our era escaped. Carole King had to marry Gerry Goffin, a total bastard, because she was pregnant. He hit her. Most of her husbands did. She wrote It's Too Late for the Tapestry album. Listen to it, young women, and think of that. Carly Simon, so sexy that a picture of her Playing Possum album cover hangs on my office wall (this was pre-Madonna), has never been with a man who didn't resent her sexual and economic power. Sheila Weller, a workmanlike biographer I have always liked, has told the stories of three artists who broke every rule and paid heavily for it. That's what happens to women who rebel.

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    I thought of some more....

    Funny, sexy with dragons.... Katie MacAlisters Aisling Grey series
    Funny, quirky, sexy... Sandra Hill's Pearl Jinx (her Viking stuff is pretty popular too, but not my fav)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lysondra View Post
    It wasn't 'turn off my brain' chicklit though it was 'omg this makes my brain HURT' chicklit.
    I kind of agree with you on the first four shopaholic books, the baby one though was ok. I just got really frustrated with the main character in the first four and wanted to smack some sense into her, but everything else kinsella has written is gold imo. (the undomestic goddess, can you keep a secret, remember me)

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