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Jennifer Weiner

(b.1970)

Jennifer Weiner is a bestselling contemporary American author of novels often categorized as chick lit. Weiner was raised in Connecticut and educated at Princeton University, where she studied English and creative writing with Joyce Carol Oates and Toni Morrison among others, and also minored in women's studies. She has jokingly referred to herself as a pariah of Princeton's prestigious creative writing tradition.

Genres: Children's Fiction, General Fiction, Romance, Mystery

New Books

October 2023

The Bigfoot Queen
(Littlest Bigfoot, book 3)

Series

Cannie Shapiro
1. Good in Bed (2001)
2. Certain Girls (2008)

Littlest Bigfoot
   1. The Littlest Bigfoot (2016)
   2. Little Bigfoot, Big City (2017)
   3. The Bigfoot Queen (2023)

Novels

   In Her Shoes (2002)
   Little Earthquakes (2004)
   Goodnight Nobody (2005)
   Best Friends Forever (2009)
   Fly Away Home (2010)
   Then Came You (2011)
   The Next Best Thing (2012)
   All Fall Down (2014)
   Who Do You Love (2015)
   Mrs. Everything (2019)
   Everyone's a Critic (2019)
   Big Summer (2020)
   That Summer (2021)
   The Summer Place (2022)
   The Breakaway (2023)

Collections

   American Girls About Town (2004) (with others)
   The Guy Not Taken (2006)
   Cosmo's Sexiest Stories Ever (2011) (with Meg Cabot and Jane Green)
   The Half Life / Swim (2012)

Novellas and Short Stories

   The Half Life (2010)
   A Memoir of Grief (Continued) (2012)
   Recalculating (2012)
   Disconnected (2013)
   Dog People (2020)
   Off Season (2021)
   Golden Hills (2023)

Non fiction

Hungry Heart (2016)

Omnibus editions

Good in Bed / In Her Shoes (2005)

Jennifer Weiner recommends

With Teeth (2021)
Kristen Arnett
"A darkly funny, brutally honest story about a woman undone by motherhood. Kristen Arnett grapples with the big questions: Is any child essentially unlovable? What does a happy ending look like? With Teeth digs in deep and doesn’t let go. I truly loved it."

And We're Off (2017)
Dana Schwartz
"A winsome, hilarious tale about losing the map and finding a better way to a happy ending. I loved it!."

Second House from the Corner (2016)
Sadeqa Johnson
"So good."

The Restaurant Critic's Wife (2016)
Elizabeth LaBan
"Compulsively readable and richly detailed, a guilt-free treat that will have you devouring every word."

A Pug's Tale (2011)
(Pug Hill, book 2)
Alison Pace
"I adored Pug Hill... I can't remember when I've seen such sensetive and funny writing about dogs."

Maybe This Time (2010)
Jennifer Crusie
"Brilliant, warm, funny, completely engrossing."