Character-driven Chick Lit

Try these books if you're looking for:

• chick lit
• focused on characters and relationships
• female protagonist between 20 and 40 years old
• published in the last 10 years

Take a Chance on Me 
By Jill Mansell
F MANSELL
Things are looking up for Cleo in the Mr. Right department… apart from one small problem with a rather large ego—Johnny LaVenture, sculptor extraordinaire and her personal childhood nemesis.

Twenties Girl 
By Sophie Kinsella
F KINSELLA
Entreated by the bossy ghost of her great aunt to track down a missing necklace, Lara finds her search challenged by her floundering start-up business, her best friend's defection, and her unfaithful boyfriend.

Austenland 
By Shannon Hale
F HALE
Because her obsession with Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice," is ruining her love life, Jane Hayes is delighted when she gets the chance to take a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-crazed women.

The Next Best Thing 
By Jennifer Weiner
F WEINER
Believing she is realizing her dreams when her sitcom is bought, television writer Ruth Saunders finds her happiness threatened by demanding actors and executives as well as an unrequited crush on her boss and her septuagenarian grandmother’s upcoming wedding.

Something Borrowed 
By Emily Giffin
F GIFFIN
After a night of indiscriminate partying, Rachel, a young attorney living and working in Manhattan, sleeps with a close friend's fiancé and is consumed with guilt, until the intensity of her feelings forces her to make a difficult choice.