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10 best books like Summer in the City (Robyn Sisman): The Violets of March, Tangled Up In You, A Promising Man (and About Time, Too), Olivia Joules And The Overactive Imagination, Bridget Jones's Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, An Ice Cold Grave, After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse, Mad About the Boy, A Girl's Best Friend, The Body Lies

The Violets of March
AuthorSarah Jio
ISBN0452297036
A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2011

A heartbroken woman stumbled upon a diary and steps into the life of its anonymous author.

In her twenties, Emily Wilson was on top of the world: she had a bestselling novel, a husband plucked from the pages of GQ, and a one-way ticket to happily ever...
Tangled Up In You
AuthorRachel Gibson
ISBN0061178039
Maddie Dupree isn't in Truly, Idaho, looking for a husband, a boyfriend, or anything in between.

Maddie is determined to uncover the untold story about the town's sordid past--her past. As a child, Maddie lost everything, and now she's back at the scene of the scandal--a local establishment...
A Promising Man (and About Time, Too)
AuthorElizabeth Young
ISBN0060507845
From the fire-hot author of Asking for Trouble comes a second irresistibly funny and romantic novel, in which we meet the delightfully wicked Harriet and John, who are matched as perfectly as scones and clotted cream -- if only Harriet would let herself indulge.

Up to her eyeballs in her friends'...
Olivia Joules And The Overactive Imagination
AuthorHelen Fielding
ISBN0143035363
At the close of the last millennium, Helen Fielding debuted the irrepressible (and blockbuster-bestselling) Bridget Jones. Now, Fielding gives us a sensational new heroine for a new era...Move over 007, a stunning, sexy-and decidedly female-new player has entered the world of international espionage....
Bridget Jones's Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
AuthorHelen Fielding
ISBN0330409697
In the course of the year recorded in Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget confides her hopes, her dreams, and her monstrously fluctuating poundage, not to mention her consumption of 5277 cigarettes and "Fat units 3457 (approx.) (hideous in every way)." In 365 days, she gains 74 pounds. On the other hand,...
An Ice Cold Grave
AuthorCharlaine Harris
ISBN0425217299
Hired to find a boy gene missing in Doraville, North Carolina, Harper Connelly and her brother Tolliver head there, only to discover that the boy was the only one left of several who had disappeared over the previous five years. All of them teenagers. All unlikely runaways.

All calling for Harper....
After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse
AuthorCharlaine Harris
ISBN0425269515
Dead Ever After marked the end of the Sookie Stackhouse novels—a series that garnered millions of fans and spawned the hit HBO television show True Blood. It also stoked a hunger that will never die…a hunger to know what happened next.

With characters arranged alphabetically—from...
Mad About the Boy
AuthorHelen Fielding
ISBN0345807952
Bridget Jones is back!

Great comic writers are as rare as hen's teeth. And Helen is one of a very select band who have created a character of whom the very thought makes you smile. Bridget Jones' Diary, charting the life of a 30-something singleton in London in the 1990s was a huge international...
A Girl's Best Friend
AuthorElizabeth Young
ISBN0060562773
Dogs Are Better Than Men
They never brag about their ex's stunning cleavage.
They don't moan or sulk if you're a half-hour late.
They never tell you a Brazilian would really turn them on.
After her most recent disaster with the King of the Unrepentant Jerks, Isabel "Izzy" Palmer is finally...
The Body Lies
AuthorJo Baker
A layered and thrilling suspense novel that grapples with how to live as a woman in the modern world - or in the pages of a book - when the stakes are dangerously high.


When a young writer accepts a job at a university in the remote countryside, it’s meant to be a fresh start, away from the big...
Pink Slip Party
AuthorCara Lockwood
ISBN0743457544
She's been handed her walking papers.
Jane McGregor has just been laid off from her job designing pink slips for an office supply company. The irony is not lost on her. She's a twenty-eight-year-old art major whose last major career accomplishment was being propositioned by the company vice president....
Rescuing Rose
AuthorIsabel Wolff
ISBN0373250487
I absoluted adored this book.
Firstly I found the main character Rose likable and lovely. I thought she was just like the sort of character you want to read about. I loved her job and how she gradually realised through the book why she loves it so much.
Secondly the romance is lovely in this book,...
Asking for Trouble
AuthorElizabeth Young
ISBN0380818973
Unmarried, thirty-year-old Sophy Metcalfe told a little white lie to soothe her nagging mother. The white lies name was "Dominic," the ideal boyfriend: charming, successful, the kind of prospective son-in-law that would make any mother proud. But now that Sophy's thin and beautiful sister, Belinda,...
The Right Address
AuthorCarrie Doyle Karasyov
ISBN0767921267
The Right Address sears through the upper crust of New York’s glittering Park Avenue scene to dish the dirt on the ladies who lunch, the gents who club, and the desperate climbers who will stop at nothing to join the backstabbing, champagne-sipping, socialite-eat-socialite stratosphere.

When...
The Summer Of Us
AuthorHolly Chamberlin
Yet another chick lit novel given to me by a co-worker. But I keep reading them, so maybe I really AM secretly enjoying these Bridget Jones-ey copy-cat atrocities. Plot predictable. Moral of the story: you'll find a man once you don't need one. Rawr, I am woman and I look fantastic in heels!

Not...
When in Rome...
AuthorGemma Townley
ISBN0345478975
When in Rome, do as Audrey Hepburn would do. Failing that, run off with your ex-boyfriend, carry suspicious packages through customs, and lie to the person who loves you. . . .

Georgie Beauchamp is totally happy and in love with her wonderful, dependable boyfriend, David. So why does she always...
Cause Celeb
AuthorHelen Fielding
ISBN0142000221
Available for the first time in the United States, Cause Celeb is the hilarious debut novel by British literary sensation Helen Fielding. With the same wit and candor that shot Bridget Jones's Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason to the top of bestseller lists and forever altered the vocabulary...
Two Classics by Roald Dahl
AuthorRoald Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory :

"But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there."

I love Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with all my heart, so...
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