Book recommendations from readers like you. Whichbook | A new way of choosing what to read next. Ten Books Every Woman Should Read. When I think of the literary genre often referred to as ‘Chick Lit,’ I immediately think Bridget Jones’ Diary. They are all built on the same platform…Meet our protagonist, X. She is thirty-something, possibly 20-something. X speaks to her audience in the first person, obviously, and tends to be quick-witted and sarcastic. She is trying to make it in the corporate world. Her parents paid a fortune for her education and yet, what do you know, she hates her job.
X is hopeless when it comes to relationships. Lather, rinse, repeat, right? But here’s the thing. A Chick Lit book, really, by nature, is meant to be a book that is written for a female reader. 1. . – Marisa de los Santos 2. . – Barbara Kingsolver 3. . – Nicola Kraus 4. . – Philippa Gregory 5. . – Julia Alvarez 6. . – Sarah Blake 7. . – Sue Monk Kidd 8. . – Jane Austen 9. . – Lisa See 10. . – Gabriel Garcia Marquez So…what do you think should be on this list too? Ali Martell, is the managing editor of Canada’s Premier Parenting Site, The Yummy Mummy Club. The Best 100 Opening Lines From Books. The 100 Best Books of All Time.
Many publishers have lists of 100 best books, defined by their own criteria. This article enumerates some lists of "100 best" books for which there are fuller articles. Among them, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (Xanadu, 1985) and Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels (Grafton, 1988) are collections of 100 short essays by a single author, David Pringle, with moderately long critical introductory chapters also by Pringle. For publisher Xanadu, Science Fiction was the first of four "100 Best" books published from 1985 to 1988.
The sequels covered crime & mystery, horror, and fantasy. Lists[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] The Best English-Language Fiction of the Twentieth Century - Alternative Rankings. C. 150-Point Scale.