Anonymous
Post 09/02/2018 23:17     Subject: Can you recommend some smart chick lit?
Anonymous wrote:Me times three
by Alex Witchel

The Dive from Clausens pier
by Ann Packer


I loved "dive from clausens pier."
Anonymous
Post 09/02/2018 23:15     Subject: Can you recommend some smart chick lit?
Tia Williams (originally from Fairfax) https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/author-tia-williams-incredibly-fashionable-world-romantic-escapism-n798816
Anonymous
Post 09/02/2018 23:12     Subject: Can you recommend some smart chick lit?
Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one who loves Jodi Picoult?

All the ugly and wonderful things


She's become too predictable for me. Ripped from the headlines plot lines, and the twist for an ending...
Anonymous
Post 09/02/2018 22:59     Subject: Can you recommend some smart chick lit?
Am I the only one who loves Jodi Picoult?

All the ugly and wonderful things
Anonymous
Post 09/02/2018 22:26     Subject: Re:Can you recommend some smart chick lit?
Silver Sparrow
A Place for Us
The Leavers
The Mothers
Anonymous
Post 09/02/2018 20:57     Subject: Can you recommend some smart chick lit?
Muriel Barbery's The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Anonymous
Post 09/02/2018 19:50     Subject: Can you recommend some smart chick lit?
Me times three
by Alex Witchel

The Dive from Clausens pier
by Ann Packer
Anonymous
Post 09/02/2018 16:11     Subject: Can you recommend some smart chick lit?
Anonymous wrote:J Courtney Sullivan's books are good ( The engagements, Maine, Saints for all Occasions)

The interestings was terrible, but all of Meg Wolitzers other books are really good. Her book The Wife was just made into a movie.

Any books by Julia Glass



I was going to recommend Sains for All Occassions
Anonymous
Post 09/01/2018 22:44     Subject: Can you recommend some smart chick lit?
The Wedding Date, by Jasmine Guillory, is both fluffy and smart, with a “realistic” female protagonist. It leans romance, which is not a genre I usually read, and I loved it.
Anonymous
Post 09/01/2018 20:32     Subject: Can you recommend some smart chick lit?
The Luckiest Girl
The Adults
Exquisite (currently reading)
Anonymous
Post 09/01/2018 20:28     Subject: Can you recommend some smart chick lit?
Modern Lovers by Emma Staub is good but the Vactioneers was better.

Anonymous
Post 09/01/2018 20:23     Subject: Can you recommend some smart chick lit?
J Courtney Sullivan's books are good ( The engagements, Maine, Saints for all Occasions)

The interestings was terrible, but all of Meg Wolitzers other books are really good. Her book The Wife was just made into a movie.

Any books by Julia Glass

Anonymous
Post 08/31/2018 11:07     Subject: Can you recommend some smart chick lit?
If you like fantasy, I'd recommend the Daughter of Smoke and Bone series.

Sleeping Giants has strong women, but isn't explicitly chick lit.

A Court of Thorns and Roses is borderline smutty, but still really fun.

Obelisk Gate is kind of heavy, but also a must-read.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2018 11:03     Subject: Can you recommend some smart chick lit?
Anonymous wrote: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.


ie, NOT "smart chick lit"

Anonymous
Post 08/31/2018 10:48     Subject: Can you recommend some smart chick lit?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


So regular old chick lit is just about white women? Got it. ?


Yeah, I caught that too.