Can you recommend some smart chick lit?

[Anonymous]

I'm at home for the next month or so recovering and I would like some smart chick lit books to read while I am at home. I really liked books like Eleanor oliphant is completely fine. Something that goes deeper than twenty somethings falling in love. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

What is "smart chick lit"? Do you mean "literature" with women as the main characters?

[Anonymous]

and written by women?

[Anonymous]

I liked Eleanor Oliphant ... also Little Fires everywhere, Americanah, Me Before You (but sad), and I liked the Husband’s Secret and Big Little Lies, the Poisonwood Bible... also struggling a bit with what smart chick lit entails.

[Anonymous]

I liked Eligible, the Pride and Prejudice remake.

[Anonymous]

I think Liane Moriarty might fit.

[Anonymous]

NP. I liked "Me Before You" and "Americanah" too. I also suggest "Eleanor and Park" and, of course, "Crazy Rich Asians" trilogy if you haven't read them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I liked Eligible, the Pride and Prejudice remake.

I really ended up disliking this book. It got smarmy in the end when they got the California, I thought.

[Anonymous]

the air you breathe

[Anonymous]

I also liked Little Fires Everywhere and Americanah. I liked Where'd You Go, Bernadette?. I did NOT like My Brilliant Friend or Post-Birthday World.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP. I liked "Me Before You" and "Americanah" too. I also suggest "Eleanor and Park" and, of course, "Crazy Rich Asians" trilogy if you haven't read them.

11:20 here. Crazy Rich asians is next on my to read list then plan to see the movie!!

[Anonymous]

I like Marian Keyes' books, particularly Watermelon and Rachel's Holiday. Also really liked Trade Wind by M.M. Kaye - learned some interesting things about Zanzibar's history.

[Anonymous]

I liked Emily Giffin's All We Ever Wanted, but found When Life Gives You Lululemons too chick lit-y.

[Anonymous]

In the vein of Crazy Rich Asians (what I call "ethnic chick lit") there's Dirty Girls Social Club and the sequel, and anything by Terry McMillan.

[Anonymous]

I enjoy Fiona Davis's books - The Dollhouse, The Address and her newest one The Masterpiece.

Her books are centered around historic landmarks in NYC (Barbizon Hotel, The Dakota, Grand Central) and alternate chapters between a main character from the past when those buildings were new and in their hey-day and a main character from relatively recent times who also live/work in those buildings. The two characters from the different periods are somehow connected at the end.