I love reading chick lit/light romance. It is my happy place when I need a book to just take my mind off everything. I like most all sub-genres of it. I like magical books.
Of course I like foodie books about people going to work in cafes or bakeries.
The problem with these books is that they are usually all written by white authors and set in either the U.S. or Britain. When I binge on them I skew my reading statistics. Happily I found a whole bunch of these types of books written by South Asian authors – including the wonderful Sofia Khan is Not Obliged.
I’m looking for more happy, light books set in South America or Asia or Africa. Give me recommendations for these types of books written by black authors in the U.S. or Europe.
I’ve found a few suggestions so far that I haven’t read yet.
Romance Class is a group of Filipino romance writers. They have a list of all kinds of books on their website. I bought two to try. There are some other ones that look good on that site too. Check it out.
I love those kind of foodie/cozy books. Those ones you featured from South Asian authors are ones that I have never seen before! You are right, they are hard to find and we seldom hear of them! Sorry I don’t have new recommendations for you.
Accidentally deleted my comment, haha. As I was saying, chick lit is so very white and I’d love to see more diversity in the genre. Thank you for all the suggestions, I’m going to add these to my TBR.
I don’t know of any books set in South America, Asia, or Africa… But I do have a few chick lit/ light romance recommendations! 🙂
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows.
The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (Translation), Emily Boyce (Translation).
Forgotten by Catherine McKenzie.
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald (Goodreads Author), Alice Menzies (Translator).
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell.
I’ve read a few of these and they were great. I’ll look up the rest of your recommendations!
I don’t read much romance, but off the top of my head I would recommend Gabriel’s Inferno by Sylvain Reynard. The series is set in Canada and Italy. Also you might want to try Love Comes Later by MOHANALAKSHMI RAJAKUMAR. I’m looking for cozy mysteries. I have some summer book recommendations and a giveaway
I just read Aunty Lee’s Deadly Specials by Ovidia Yu. It is part of a cozy series set in Singapore.