The best fiction about strong chicks:
Discover the best fiction books about strong, empowering female characters. Explore inspiring stories of resilience, courage, and triumph in our curated list of must-read chick-lit novels.
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In Her Shoes
by Jennifer Weiner
From Jennifer Weiner comes a story of two sisters with nothing in common but a love for shoes learn they are more alike than they …
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Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
by Marian Keyes
What happens when a psychic tells Lucy that she'll be getting married within the year? Her roommates panic! What is going to happen to their …
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Rachel's Holiday
by Marian Keyes
The fast lane is much too slow for Rachel Walsh. And Manhattan is the perfect place for a young Irish female to overdo everything. But …
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The First Time
by Joy Fielding
After sixteen years of marriage, Mattie Hart's husband Jake leaves her for another woman, leaving her to cope with her teenage daughter's anger and a …
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Jemima J
by Jane Green
Discover the addictive and uplifting story of reinvention, self-discovery and the meaning of true love from the bestselling author of Life Swap and The Friends …
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Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks
"When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated mountain village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine …
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Yo!
by Julia Alvarez
At last A zesty, exuberant follow-up to the wildly popular How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, full of Julia Alvarez's keen observations and tender …
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Portrait in Sepia
by Isabel Allende
"Portrait in Sepia is the best book Allende has published in the United States since her first novel of nearly two decades ago, The House …
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
The American classic about a young girl's coming of age at the turn of the century. "A profoundly moving novel, and an honest and true …
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We the Living
by Ayn Rand
Traces the impact of the Russian Revolution on three people who try to challenge the new regime
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Confessions of a Shopaholic
by Sophie Kinsella
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life comes “a hilarious tale . . . hijinks worthy …
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The Passion of Artemisia
by Susan Vreeland
"Susan Vreeland set a high standard with Girl in Hyacinth Blue.... The Passion of Artemisia is even better.... Vreeland's unsentimental prose turns the factual Artemisia …
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The Dress Lodger
by Sheri Holman
In a novel set in London during the Industrial Revolution, a prostitute borrows a blue dress to attract a higher class of client and is …
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Dating Big Bird
by Laura Zigman
Thirty-five-year-old careerwoman Ellen Green wants a child, but her boyfriend Malcolm doesn't, so she is forced to consider the option of single motherhood, in a …