Next Up: Chick Lit Books Releasing in 2024
- Victor Castillo
- Mar 27, 2024
- 6 min read
March is coming to an end, and with it, the first quarter of the year. But with nine months still ahead of us, it's time to take a look at what the Chick Lit genre has to offer this year. With each month promising new and exciting stories all across the board, there is sure to be one to pique your interest. So grab your cozy blanket, brew a steaming cup of your favorite beverage, and let's get into the Chick Lit books destined to capture our hearts and bring out our laughter this year.
On The Horizon
The Happy Hour by Cressida McLaughlin
Release Date: May 9, 2024
Can they fall in love, sixty minutes at a time? The deliciously captivating new standalone from the bestselling author of The Staycation and The Cornish Cream Tea series. Can they fall in love, sixty minutes at a time? Jess is perfectly happy working in Greenwich market with her job in a cramped gift shop that sells trinkets to well-heeled locals and excitable tourists. She is also perfectly happy being single, and with her small circle of friends who don’t ask her too many awkward questions. Jess is less delighted with her cramped bedsit, but as long as she’s able to duck under the radar at work —and in life — she thinks she’s doing just fine.
Then one Sunday, Jess is thrown together with handsome, funny Ash, as they chase a pickpocket through the market, and before long they are making a habit of running into each other once a week. Jess starts to realize that their ‘Happy Hour’ is the brightest part of her life and being perfectly happy doesn’t seem like enough anymore.But is one hour a week really enough time to fall in Iove …?
How To Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley
Release Date: May 9, 2024
A senior citizens’ center and a daycare collide with hilarious results in the new ensemble comedy from New York Times- bestselling author Clare Pooley
When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she’ll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards.
The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art, a failed actor turned kleptomaniac to Daphne, who has been hiding from her dark past for decades to Ruby, a Banksy-style knitter who gets revenge in yarn, these seniors look deceptively benign—but when age makes you invisible, secrets are so much easier to hide.
When the city council threatens to sell the doomed community center building, the members of the Social Club join forces with their tiny friends in the daycare next door—as well as the teenaged father of one of the toddlers and a geriatric dog—to save the building. Together, this group’s unorthodox methods may actually work, as long as the police don’t catch up with them first.
The Love of My Afterlife by Kirsty Greenwood
Release Date: July 2, 2024
A recently deceased woman meets “the one” in the afterlife waiting room, scoring a second chance at life (and love!) if she can find him on earth before ten days are up…
If she wasn’t dead already, Delphie would be dying of embarrassment. Not only did she just die by choking on a microwaveable burger, but now she’s standing in her ‘shine like a star’ nightie in front of the hottest man she’s ever seen. And he’s smiling at her.
As they start to chat, everything else becomes background noise. That is until someone comes running out of a door, yelling something about a huge mistake, and sends the dreamy stranger back down to earth. And here Delphie was thinking her luck might be different in the afterlife.
When Delphie is offered a deal in which she can return to earth and reconnect with the mysterious stranger, she jumps at the opportunity to find her possible soulmate and a fresh start at life. But in a city of millions, Delphie is going to have to listen to her heart, learn to ask for help, and perhaps even see the magic in the life she’s leaving behind…
Love Story by Lindsey Kelk
Release Date: July 4, 2024
She’s a small-town schoolteacher.
He’s a hotshot marketing director.
Together, it’s hate at first sight.
Sophie Taylor has a secret and Joe Walsh thinks he knows it (all). He’s devilishly handsome, incredibly hot – and far too sure of himself.
Unfortunately, Sophie desperately needs his help. She has lost her laptop – and her sequel to the sensational, spicy romance that everybody’s talking about.
Because Sophie is not just hiding something small. She is Este Cox, the mysterious romance author the entire world is desperate to unmask.
When a trip to Sophie’s home town leads to the disgruntledpair sharing a one-bed cottage, it’s a short step to sharing a whole lot more besides… Can Sophie trust Joe with the truth – and be herself?
Slow Dance by Rainbow
Release Date: July 23, 2024
A bright, beaming power ballad of a novel from Rainbow Rowell—the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of Landline, Fangirl, and Eleanor & Park—Slow Dance tells the humorous and heartbreaking love story of best friends Shiloh and Cary from their inseparable teen years to their far-flung adulthoods as they try to figure out what their relationship is, where it went wrong, and how to finally make it right.
Growing up on the wrong side of Omaha, all Shiloh could think about was getting away. At least she had Cary in the meantime. Cary to put up with her, Cary to make her laugh. Cary at sixteen, built like a stick of gum and driving his mom’s beat-up station wagon. He had it worse than Shiloh did. Only their friendship got Cary through high school and when Shiloh went off to college, he joined the Navy.
That was fourteen years ago. Now Shiloh’s thirty-three and feeling like she never did get away. She’s back living in the same house she grew up in. She’s working in a theater, but not onstage like she’d planned. And she’s divorced, a single mom just like her own mother (minus the revolving door of boyfriends).
When a high school friend invites Shiloh to his wedding, the last thing she wants is to catch up with the old gang. But she buys a new dress, puts on some makeup, and pins a silk flower over her heart, hoping—and also worrying— that she might see Cary, the boy she never realized she loved until he was lost.
It's All Relative by Rachel Magee
Release Date: August 6, 2024
Helena Crosby is on her way to be a bridesmaid... in her mom's wedding.
Of course she's thrilled for her mom--the man she's marrying is great--but this family wedding is complicated. For starters, after twenty-eight years of it just being her and her mom, navigating family dynamics isn't exactly her strong suit, especially when she has nothing in common with said family. Take her soon-to-be stepsister, for example. They might be the same age, but Amelia is an always-put-together, successful architect whose hobby is organizing her pantry while Helena favors the messy bun and has decided meal prepping means scarfing down whatever she gets out of the vending machine while writing up lesson plans before class. And as if things weren't challenging enough, Helena managed to develop a monster crush on Amelia's fiancé. Now, on top of figuring out how to claim a spot in this family, she has to will herself to not be attracted to the most attractive man she's ever met. So, yeah. This week of wedding festivities at her new family's beach house should be super fun.
Amelia Maddox has everything under control.
Or at least she did until this whole wedding thing came up. She's happy her dad is dating again, but getting married? So soon? It's only been three years since her mom died, and Amelia has worked too hard to hold her family together to let it fall apart now. And then Helena shows up with him. What are the odds that the stepsister she barely knows happens to be best friends with her ex? But Landon is part of her past--which is absolutely behind her--and now she has to stay focused on the future. The bright, shiny, expertly planned future.
Of course, life has a habit of not going according to plan.
A Look Ahead
In the spirit of "Next Up," we want to take a moment to remind you that our Official Review of the Busy Bee Book Club Book of the Month, Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter, comes out this Friday, March 29, 2024. Following that, our April 1, 2024 post coming this Monday will introduce us to our new genre and Book of the Month! Make sure to check back, oh, and watch out for the paparazzi.
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