Chick lit is a term used to describe a type of popular fiction targeted at women. Widely used in the 1990s and 2000s, the term has fallen out of fashion...
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ChickLit is a 2016 British comedy film written and directed by Tony Britten and starring Christian McKay, Dakota Blue Richards, Miles Jupp, Eileen Atkins...
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Brain Thrust Mastery (redirect from Chick Lit (We Are Scientists song))
Singles from Brain Thrust Mastery "After Hours" Released: March 03, 2008 "Chick Lit" Released: June 09, 2008 "Impatience" Released: October 27, 2008...
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Dakota Blue Richards (section ChickLit)
protagonist's sister-in-law, cajoled into acting the role of author of a chick-lit novel written by four patrons of a local pub in Norfolk. The character...
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Justine Musk (category Chick lit writers)
Jennifer Justine Musk (née Wilson; born September 2, 1972) is a Canadian author. Justine Wilson was born in Peterborough, Ontario, and spent most of her...
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Romance novel (section Chick lit)
and all of those things we really want." Women's fiction (including "chick lit") is not directly a subcategory of the romance novel genre, because in...
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Germany), a Spanish romantic novelist whose works can be categorized as chick lit. She has an American father and a Spanish mother. She has lived with her...
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Chick flick is a slang term for the film genre catered specifically to women's interests, and is marketed toward women demographics. They generally tend...
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1990s media-driven lad subculture, the term lad lit preceded chick lit. Books categorised as lad lit from UK authors Nick Hornby and Tony Parsons enjoyed...
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The Devil Wears Prada (novel) (category Chick lit novels)
Emily Blunt. The novel is considered by many to be an example of the "chick lit" genre. Upon its publication The Devil Wears Prada attracted attention...
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Shopaholic (novels) (category Chick lit novels)
Shopaholic is a series of novels written by the UK author Sophie Kinsella, who also writes under her real name Madeleine Wickham. The books follow protagonist...
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Crazy Rich Asians (category Chick lit novels)
Crazy Rich Asians is a satirical 2013 romantic comedy novel by Kevin Kwan. Kwan stated that his intention in writing the novel was to "introduce a contemporary...
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China Rich Girlfriend (category Chick lit novels)
China Rich Girlfriend is a 2015 satirical romantic comedy novel by Kevin Kwan. It is the sequel to Crazy Rich Asians, a novel about the wealthy Singapore...
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Something Borrowed (novel) (category Chick lit novels)
Cover of most recent edition Author Emily Giffin Language English Genre Chick lit, Romance, Comedy Publisher St. Martin's Press Publication date March 10...
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Kristin Harmel (category American chick lit writers)
Kristin Harmel (born May 4, 1979) is an American novelist. Her most notable works include The Book of Lost Names, The Forest of Vanishing Stars, The Sweetness...
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Larry McMurtry (category American chick lit writers)
Larry Jeff McMurtry (June 3, 1936 – March 25, 2021) was an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the...
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Paige Toon (category British chick lit writers)
Paige Toon is an author who grew up in Australia, America and England following her father's career as a race car driver meant she grew up all over the...
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Jennifer Weiner (category American chick lit writers)
chick-lit. There is a long-standing gender imbalance in what goes into the canon, however you want to define the canon." As for the label "chick lit"...
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Bridget Jones's Diary (novel) (category Chick lit novels)
Critics have credited Fielding's novel as the "ur-text" of the contemporary chick lit movement. A sequel, The Edge of Reason, was published in 1999. The plot...
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Candace Bushnell (category American chick lit writers)
Candace Bushnell (born December 1, 1958) is an American author, journalist, and television producer. She wrote a column for The New York Observer (1994–96)...
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Keyes rejected the term chick lit as dismissive and sexist, as men writing similar fiction are not described as "dick lit". Watermelon (1995) (Claire...
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Rich People Problems (category Chick lit novels)
Rich People Problems is a 2017 satirical romantic comedy novel by Kevin Kwan. It is the third and final novel in Kwan's "Crazy Rich..." trilogy that looks...
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Danielle Steel (category American chick lit writers)
Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel (born August 14, 1947) is an American writer, best known for her romance novels. She is the bestselling living...
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Virginie Grimaldi (category Chick lit writers)
notably the first ones – had been analysed by some media as being close to chick lit and "feel-good" literature. In 2020 she reached second place on the Le...
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Love with Alma Cogan (2011), Testament of Youth (2014), Departure (2015), ChickLit, The Ghoul (both 2016), The Virtues (2019), Death in Paradise (2021), and...
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Machine (archived 21 February 2008) at 'SBillington.com' The queen of chick lit The Guardian, 15 June 2004 – Article about Cooper's writing Jilly Cooper...
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Helen Fielding (category British chick lit writers)
Helen Fielding (born 19 February 1958) is a British journalist, novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget...
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Lisa Jewell (category British chick lit writers)
Lisa Jewell (born 19 July 1968) is a British author of popular fiction. Her books include Ralph's Party, Thirtynothing, After The Party (a sequel to Ralph's...
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Cecelia Ahern (category Chick lit writers)
Cecelia Ahern (born 30 September 1981) is an Irish novelist, known for her works like PS, I Love You; Where Rainbows End; and If You Could See Me Now....
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Anybody Out There? (category Chick lit novels)
Anybody Out There? is a 2007 novel by Marian Keyes. It is about Anna Walsh, a woman who is recovering from an injury whilst in her parents' residence in...
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