Recommended

Books

What Was She Thinking by Zoe Heller

Girls' Poker Night by Jill A. Davis

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

Watermelon by Marian Keyes

I Don't Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson

The Big Love by Sarah Dunn

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

Harry Potter, Vols. I-VII by J.K. Rowling

Colony by Anne Rivers Siddeons

Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin

Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman

Bitten by Kelley Armstrong

Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Getting Over It by Anna Maxted

Then She Found Me by Elinor Lipman

Well Groomed by Fiona Walker

Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs - Burroughs is so digustingly talented, I don't know whether to love him or hate him. No, that's a lie; I flat-out love him.

The Best a Man Can Get by John O'Farrell - Funniest. Book. Ever.

Hens Dancing by Raffaella Barker - So fabulous. It will cause you to spiral into despair because you don't live in the English countryside.

Legacy of Love by Caroline Harvey, a.k.a. Joanna Trollope

 

Movies

About A Boy

When Harry Met Sally

Moonstruck

Swingers

Wimbledon

A Room with a View

Pride and Prejudice

Almost Famous

Bend It Like Beckham

Emma

Out of Sight

Howards End

Jerry Maguire

The Painted Veil

Atonement

The Queen

Sense and Sensibility

Sleepless in Seattle

 

Television

The Amazing Race

Friday Night Lights

The Office

Freaks & Geeks

Gilmore Girls

Northern Exposure

A Room with a View

 

Magazines

Living Etc.

Domino

Entertainment Weekly