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Top 10 chick lit authors
Our Top 100 Extravaganza continues with the Top 10 chick lit authors chosen from our weekly Spotlight feature.
Belinda Jones has carved herself the best career ever - she travels the world and writes always-entertaining chick lit books based on her adventures.
Lisa Jewell’s Thirtynothing is one of my favourite books of all time and her latest, Vince and Joy is wonderful too.
Emily Giffin is one of the new breed of chick lit authors, scoring huge sales in an allegedly dying market.
Meg Cabot may be better-known for her young adult novels, but her adult chick lit books are entertaining and very funny.
Jennifer Crusie (pictured) was writing chick lit before it was called chick lit and she just keeps getting better.
Carry on over the cut for the Top 5 and find out who's number one (it might not be who you think!)
The Shopaholic books are chick lit classics and rightly so. Plus Can You Keep A Secret has one of my favourite ever chick lit heroes. (Look out for the latest Shopaholic book, Shopaholic and Baby due in February 2007.)
Had to be Top 5 due to the enormous success of The Devil Wears Prada (the only book to get its own Trashionista category!). Weisberger’s debut brought the chick lit debate back with a bang.
One author who has apparently begun to transcend her chick lit label. Graduating from an Ivy League school and writing short stories has probably helped.
Nope. She’s not number one, but she had to be up there. The one who - arguably - started it all with Bridget Jones and still the author still most associated with chick lit. 
Why? Because her first book, Watermelon, came out in 1995 - a year before Bridget Jones’s Diary - making her arguably the originator of chick lit. Plus she’s published a further seven gorgeous novels and two wonderful books of non-fiction. And because she’s a goddess.
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Posted by Keris on December 11, 2006 in American Authors, Book related, British Authors, Devil Wears Prada, Irish Authors, Marian Keyes, Modern Fiction, Opinion, Top 100 Extravaganza! | Permalink
Comments
Great list, and great to see Belinda Jones in there! Ten is not enough, though. I can think of so many more. Jenny Colgan, Anna Maxted, Sarah Mason, Jill Mansell and as much as I can't stand the woman's writing...even Jane Green could all be up there too.
Posted by: Gemma | Dec 11, 2006 2:09:23 PM
Yep, you're right. Between making this list and doing Spotlight, I've come to realise how many great chick lit writers there are!
Posted by: Keris | Dec 11, 2006 4:33:56 PM
Great list Keris - I don't know how you managed to get a 10, I'd have gone cross eyed with the effort I'm sure!!
Posted by: Jenni | Dec 11, 2006 8:37:43 PM
I love Meg Cabot and Helen Fielding, ut I've got to say that Marian Keyes is definitely the best. Her books make me laugh out loud. I hope that my books are as good as hers but more psychological. Please check out my site http://hiddenmelmelanieonline.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Kathryn | Dec 11, 2006 8:46:06 PM
Marian Keyes is number one in my book, too! Her writing just gets better and better with each book. I simply adore her.
Posted by: Lucie Simone | Dec 12, 2006 12:52:33 AM
