Can anyone suggest any decent funny chick-lit/rom-com type books to me please

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I love reading but don't have much time for anything of any real substance these days, and i also have a bit of a guilty secret about liking these types of books

can anyone recommend some good ones for me to read please!

TIA

The Secret Diary of a Slummy Mummy

Emily Barr is good for an easy read - not exactly rom-com but easy to read.

I'm not keen on Marian Keyes, which is odd because whenever I've seen her interviewed she seem terribly witty and nice and the sort of person who's books I should like.

I love Jennifer Crusie, especially Welcome to Temptation. Also Serena Mackesy, Virtue is the best one of hers IMO. If you like American romantic fiction then Rachel Gibson is good. Sparkle Hayter is great too, although it's not so much romance as mystery/comedy chick lit.

Getting rid of Matthew by Jane Fallon

I don't think anyone should feel they have to justify themselves for reading chick lit - and I am a literary snob. This is especially true for Marian Keyes - one of the great comic writers of the last 20 years imo.

thanks, i've made a list and shall go shopping tomorrow!

Christina Jones books - many tie in together. Tickled Pink is a good one; or if you like horses then Going the Distance. see all her titles here

If you like a bit of old fashioned romance with humour, the original and the best is Georgette Heyer - The Grand Sophie is a good one but almost any will do.amazon has many of them

and of course Marian Keyes!

I've got Getting of Matthew, is it any good?

I absolutely hated Getting Rid of Matthew, found the characters in it deeply unpleasant and the whole thing left a sour taste in my mouth, also made unkind digs at breastfeeders which annoyed me (probably lack of humour failure as dd2 weeks old when I read it).
But that;s just me, each to his own etc

Someone bought it for me a while ago and I've never fancied it or bothered to read it. Don't think I will now.

Don't read it if you want a standard rom-com but I thought it was a good twist and most of the characters pretty true to life. Some of it was quite cliched - e.g. the best friend turned Bridezilla - but it's funny.

She's Rick Gervais' girlfriend btw - not that that's any reason to read the book.

with mrsshackleton on the jane fallon book -characters punchable and I didnt finish it. complete waste of money.

right i went into the local charity shops today and picked up the following:

Stupid Cupid by Arabella Weir
Shopaholic Abroad by Sophie Kinsella
For Better For Worse by Carole Matthews
The Godmother by Carrie Adams
Nadia Knows Best by Jill Mansell
I Don't Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson

Fingers crossed there's something in this lot that will be ok

I love Cathy Kelly and Jill Mansell, i have just discovered Katie Fforde too she is excellent!!

"Thanks for Nothing Nick Maxwell" by Debbie Carbin.
The author is a friend of mine, so I'm shamelessly plugging it. That being said, everyone who's read it has loved it, myself included, and Heat Magazine gave it a stonking review.

not chic-Lit but "A spot of bother" is very funny..

would highly recommend it

I love Catherine Alliott (Rosie Meadow Regrets); Marian Keyes (a classic writer in this genre who also brings in black humour); Elizabeth Buchan (less chick lit, more serious relationship stuff, but really good and still light enough to cope with if you're baby-brained, like myself!).

I have to confess that I used to be a science fantasy geek...yes I loved the Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit, Tad Williams, Robin Hobb and other officianados of the genre, but I got seduced into chick lit with Kathy Lette, Mad Cows (she was good at her best but is a bit up and down).

I then moved onto Jennifer Weiner (In her Shoes, Good in Bed and others). And now, I have to admit I'm into a crossover genre...werewolf/supernatural chick-lit . There's a woman called Kelley Armstrong who wrote Bitten, Stolen, Personal Demon and others and I think she's great. It's like a chick lit novel but your heroine is a werewolf...I can't belive I'm admitting to this.

I also found Diane Settlerfield's 13th Tale really readable this year. It's definitely not chick lit, but it's light, readable and quite intriguing. Almost Jane Eyre-ish in it's tone and pace. Most enjoyable.

P.S I Love You had me laughing out loud; some of the antics they get up to remind me of me and my friends!
Louise Bradshaw is good, though don't go there if you are at all prudish!
Also it might be an oldie but Bridget Jones Diary is another goodie, way better then the film!

I just finished The Stepmother, by Carrie Adams, (sequel to The Godmother) and really enjoyed it. Would also second 'Slummy Mummy' and Notting Hell.

Have recently finished reading The Ex-Bofriends Handbook by Matt Dunn, I don't usually go for books written by blokes if I'm honest, unless its Dan Brown but this one had some real laugh out loud moments.

I've just finished the new Marian Keyes - a Charming Man. It was brilliant and very moving in parts.

Cathereine Alliott The Old Girls Network. Quite an old book, but don't let that put you off. I pissed myself laughing at this and could not put it down.

i've read the shopaholic series by sophia kinsella and it was really enjoyable to read! Not to taxing on ur brain too! U could prob pick em up dead cheap from ebay

janet evanovitch stephanie plum series. theres a new one out soon so the first one will be on offer always is

Jennifer Crusie

I like Lauren Weisberger's books (Devil Wears Prada, Everyone Worth Knowing, Chasing Harry Winston).

Also, Nancy Mitford's books are great (although very much of their time).

Of some classic type books in a chick lit vein Valley of the Dolls by Jacquline Susan, The Thorn Bird by Colleen McCullogh and Gone with the Wind by Margaret Michell are wonderful.