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- The Best Romantic Comedy BooksReading list
Bridget Jones’s Diary is a romantic comedy book written by Helen Fielding. The story is about a single woman in her thirties who tries to improve her life by keeping a diary. The book has been reviewed as “a biting, hilarious send-up of love and London life” and “one of the most popular books of the last decade.” It…
- Jane GreenInterview
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby. That was the book that single-handedly changed the face of commercial fiction. It was honest, funny, and completely relatable, and it paved the way for Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding, and in fact, an entire genre known back then as Chick Lit.
- Jenna McCarthyInterview
It’s random but probably Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding. In my mind that book legitimized “chick lit” and made it a viable and commercial form.
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