Chick Lit

Or Contemporary Women's Fiction. Whatever you want to call it, and whether you read it loud and proud or secretly under the doona. Here's the best teen chick lit around.

Mag Hags Lollie Barr

'Please, Miss. It’s not only my English mark, my sanity depends on it.'

Five girls of polar opposites are thrown together on a school assignment lasting ten weeks. If they fail they repeat year ten. Will they stop fighting long enough to get any work done?

Finding Cassie Crazy Jaclyn Moriarty

'I've heard that Brookfield has a marijuana plantation instead of a sports oval. So I guess it's easy enough for you to get. Or are they strict about who can pick it?'

Cassie, Lydia and Emily, best friends attending a private girl’s school write letters to three boys at the rival public school of Brookfield for a school assignment. Lydia turns into a secret agent and Emily becomes a relationship advisor but it’s not so clear what is happening to Cassie.

Broken Soup Jenny Valentine

It wasn’t mine. I didn’t drop it, but the boy said I did. He stood there with this I-know-I’m-right look on his face…I had no idea something important had happened.

When the good looking boy pushes the negative into Rowans hand she is sure is it hers but before she can react he disappears. What is the negative of? And is the boy who was so insistent it was hers?

Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List  Rachael Cohn and David Levithan

If our parents had created a No Kiss List, they could have saved us a lot of grief. The next generation won’t make the same mistake.

Naomi and Ely are best friends. They have lived in the same apartment building across the hall from each other their whole lives. Naomi and Ely love each other. Naomi is in love with Ely. Ely is in love with Naomi's boyfriend.

Queen Kat Carmel and Saint Jude Get a Life  Maureen McCarthy

‘If we can manage to deal with Queen Katrina,’ she added impishly, ‘we’ll be able to deal with anything!’

Three very different girls from a small Victorian country town share a house in inner city Melbourne during their first year of Uni. Katrina is the resident bitch, Jude a political activist and Carmel a soulful singer. 

High Jinx Sara Lawrence

'Jin, I’ve been drawing that fucking crab for three hours now, and it’s starting to freak me out. I keep looking into its dead staring eyes and thinking it’s trying to talk to me.'

Jinx Slater is in the lower sixth of England’s most exclusive school for girls, Stagmount. She and her best friend Liberty live life to then fullest and delight in causing mayhem. When the mysterious new girl Stella Fox arrives, things change dramatically.

Kiss My Book Jamie Michaels

‘This is it,’ I told myself ‘Ruby Crane, would-be writer and accused plagiarist, no longer exists.’

Ruby Crane has sold her first book, got a movie deal and has the hottest guy in school and she’s only fifteen! She is about to become famous when she is accused of plagiarism on national television. Her only option is to disappear…

Guyaholic Carolyn Mackler

If I weren’t dealing with a major head injury, I would have cracked up. But it’s hard to laugh when you’re drenched with blood and possibly dead.

The sequel to Vegan, Virgin, Valentine, this time told from the perspective of V. She is 17 and living with her grandparents after her mother dumped her there. She bounces from guy to guy and has meaningless hookups. Until one day she is knocked, quite literally, into the arms of Sam Almond. 

Queen of Babble Meg Cabot

I can't believe this. I can't believe I don't remember what he looks like! How can I not remember what he looks like? I mean, his tongue has been in my mouth.

Lizzie Nichols has a big mouth. Try as she might she can’t keep anything to herself. She has taken a year off the visit her long distance boyfriend of three months in Britain, giving up the perfect apartment in New York and spending all her savings to do so. Things get off to a bumpy start and only get worse from there.