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And again...let's see if I can lessen this list!

ULTIMATE 100 CHICK LIT COLLECTION:
http://www.chicklitclub.com/ultimate1...

1. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
2. Confessions of a Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella
3. Something Borrowed - Emily Giffin
4. The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger
5. Watermelon - Marion Keyes
6. PS I Love You - Cecelia Ahern
7. The Nanny Diaries - Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin
8. Good in Bed - Jennifer Weiner
9. Jemima J - Jane Green
10. Rachel's Holiday - Marian Keyes *
11. Where Rainbows End - Cecelia Ahern (Read as Love, Rosie)
12. Sex and the City - Candace Bushnell
13. Twenties Girl - Sophie Kinsella
14. Forget About It - Caprice Crane
15. Miranda's Big Mistake - Jill Mansell*
16. Bitter is the New Black - Jen Lancaster
17. Ralph's Party - Lisa Jewell
18. Shopaholic Ties the Knot - Sophie Kinsella
19. I Don't Know How She Does It - Allison Pearson*
20. The Friday Night Knitting Club - Kate Jacobs
21. Little Earthquakes - Jennifer Weiner *
22. Anybody Out There? - Marian Keyes *
23. Something Blue - Emily Giffin
24. Never Say Never - Melissa Hill
25. Queen of Babble - Meg Cabot
26. See Jane Date - Melissa Senate
27. Carrie Pilby - Caren Lissner
28. Bergdorf Blondes - Plum Sykes
29. Straight Talking - Jane Green *
30. Frenemies - Megan Crane *
31. The Go-To Girl - Louise Bagshawe
32. Accidental IT Girl - Libby Street
33. Single White Email - Jessica Adams
34. Can You Keep a Secret? - Sophie Kinsella
35. Getting Rid of Matthew - Jane Fallon *
36. The Fidelity Files - Jessica Brody *
37. Bridget Jones:The Edge of Reason - Helen Fielding
38. The Starter Wife -Gigi Levangi Grazer
39. Good Grief - Lolly Winston
40. Divas Las Vegas - Belinda Jones
41. The Other Woman - Jane Green *
42. In Her Shoes - Jennifer Weiner *
43. Motherland - Maria Beaumont
44. The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing - Melissa Banks
45. This Charming Man - Marian Keyes
46. Woman to Woman - Cathy Kelly
47. The Baby Trail - Sinead Moriarty *
48. Tales of a Drama Queen - Lee Nichols
49. Young Wives' Tales - Adele Parks
50. Hissy Fit - Mary Kay Andrews
51. Waiting to Exhale - Terry McMillan
52. The Ivy Chronicles - Karen Quinn
53. The Thin Pink Line - Lauren Baratz-Logsted
54. Angel - Katie Price
55. Holly's Inbox - Holly Denham
56. Thanks for Nothing,Nick Maxwell - Debbie Carbin
57. Time of My Life - Allison Winn Scotch *
58. The Love of Her Life - Harriet Evans *
59. The Wag's Diary -Alison Kervin *
60. Sammy's Hill - Kristin Gore *
61. The Ten Best Days of My Life - Adena Halpern
62. The Journal of Mortifying Moments - Robyn Harding
63. Daddy's Girls - Tasmina Perry
64. Scot on the Rocks - Brenda Janowitz
65. The Yorkshire Pudding Club - Milly Johnson
66. My Best Friend's Girl - Dorothy Koomson
67. Fishbowl - Sarah Mlynowski
68. Three Wishes - Liane Moriarty *
69. The Next Thing on My List - Jill Smolinski
70. The Cinderella Pact - Sarah Strohmeyer *
71. The Rise and Fall of a Yummy Mummy - Polly Williams
72. Unsticky - Sarra Manning
73. Odd Mom Out - Jane Porter *
74. Dog Handling - Clare Naylor
75. Just Friends - Robyn Sisman
76. The Wedding Girl - Madeleine Wickham
77. Goodbye Jimmy Choo - Annie Sanders *
78. Heaven Can Wait - Cally Taylor
79. The Nanny - Melissa Nathan *
80. The Opposite of Love - Julie Buxbaum
81. Must Love Dogs - Claire Cook
82. The Divorce Party - Laura Dave *
83. Conversations with the Fat Girl - Liza Palmer *
84. Three Bedrooms in Chelsea - Liz Ireland *
85. The Personal Shopper - Carmen Reid
86. The Best Day of Someone Else's Life - Kerry Reichs *
87. Enchanted Inc - Shanna Swendson *
88. Younger - Pamela Redmond Satran
89. Do You Remember the First Time? - Jenny Colgan
90. Life Swap - Jane Green (Read it as Swapping Lives)
91. The Second Assistant - Clare Naylor and Mimi Hare
92. The Book of Jane - Anne Dayton/May Vanderbilt
93. Because She Can - Bridie Clark
94. Asking for Trouble - Elizabeth Young *
95. The Boy Next Door - Meg Cabot
96. I Never Fancied Him Anyway - Claudia Carroll
97. Momzilla's - Jill Kargman *
98. Animal Husbandry - Laura Zigman
99. Fashionistas - Lynn Messina
100. Reinventing Mona - Jennifer Coburn*

TOTAL READ: 43/100

* = books sitting on my bookshelves just waiting to be read!

Hey, you're almost halfway there! :)

This is tough! Although I know the most I will read is 99 because there is one book I refuse to try given just how awful the writing was on another book by the same author. Also realized I didn't put any of these in my challenge sooooo not sure if I will make a dent in it this year :(

I managed to read one this year, so I'm doing better than I did last year. :)

I wish they would update the list, or make a new one. There are so many books that have come out since this list was made that should be on it.

I know which book you're not going to read! ;)

Ohhh which one Suzanne!!!

Oh wait...there's two books! I just realized which one you would choose :) :)

One of them has to be Do You Remember the First Time?

Yes indeed! The other is The Book of Jane. I read another one by them. It was supposed to be Christian chick-lit but the main character was SO contradictory. You cannot tell me one minute she is Christ-like and then turn around and have her be rude "in the name of Christ." Never again.

i loved Do You Remember The First Time. read it twice in one year...

Eva wrote: "i loved Do You Remember The First Time. read it twice in one year..."

LOL Eva, a bunch of us read a different book of hers a few years ago and thought it was horrible. Pretty much turned all of us off of the rest of her books. :)

Chaw chaw chaw, LOL

I think they are making it into a movie!!! My first thought was "will they chaw all over the place?!"

i think that was just that one book (amanda's wedding, right?) that was pretty bad. she has a few others which are really nice. i thought diamond's are a girl's best friend was also good.

That's the one!

Hilarious that you were able to guess which one, Eva!!

Kourtney - are you serious?????

PHEW! I just googled and it is Jenny's Wedding not Amanda's Wedding. We're safe! Although now we will never have the question of the chaw's answered.

LOL, that was my thought, that we'd finally get to find out what exactly a chaw is. :)

Looks like she's Scottish so I'm finding out from the bf!! I almost want to re-read it again to see if my outlook changed knowing more about their Scottish ways...


Nahhhh.... :)

THE QUESTION OF THE CHAW HAS BEEN ANSWERED!

Straight from the Scotsman mouth:

As we all knew ! and ? are meant to reflect the characters facial expression. I shouted to him "IT'S NOT A SENTENCE!" He said it is common in Scotland though to write that way (I'm trying to read another book by a Scottish author and they shorten so much stuff I have my bf read it to me as it is distracting as all get out! Plus let's be fair - it's fun to listen to his accent.)

As for the chaw chaw chaw...he said that this sounds like something that is distinct to the author's corner of Scotland as he has never heard it before. At first he thought it was reflecting that the characters were chewing, but I mentioned I would have figured that out as Texans call that chaw as well (or at least the one Texan I knew of back in grade school). After further discussion he proclaimed:

Chaw would be the sound that the characters make to "highlight a stereotypical laugh from posh people" - which makes sense because I saw reviews from Scots that said they didn't like the stereotypes in the book. So it seems this was her way to put down posh people!

What scares me even more? My boyfriend does not even bat an eye when I ask him these out of the world crazy questions. He does laugh at me though :)

i didnt realize the author was scottish. anyway, chaw chaw chaw is only in that one book (although i havent read them all), so that's how i guessed it. i've never heard or read it anywhere else.

as far as a i remember, the beginning of the book was very disjointed, maybe because the one telling it was hungover? afterwards it got to be more normal.

Finally! We have meaning!!! Doesn't mean that I don't still don't like it though! :) Way to go Kourt for knowing someone that could finally explain the Chaw!

Can't say that I remember reading any other books by Scottish authors...wait, Cecelia Ahern?? Is she?

Eva - I hated that book so much that I blocked everything but the Chaw from my memory. :)

I knew my dating habits would pay off one day! Off the top of my head I want to say Cecelia is Irish?

BTW if this was Facebook I would like that comment of yours Stacy!! The CHAW is forever engraved in our lives!

Oh, Irish. Yes, I think you're right. Didn't she have a short story in Irish Girls about Town?

LOL, I know, sometimes I really wish there was a "like" feature on here.

9 months in and nary a book knocked off...better luck next year??

That's what usually happens with my large lists - 100 chick lit authors, 100 chick lit books, and RDI books.