Hooray for this thread...as I'm sure you're all sick of hearing by now, I'm a librarian...yay for books!
If you liked
Bridget Jones' Diary you will LOVE the Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich. The first one is called
One for the Money, and even though I don't usually like mysteries, or books for adults for that matter, I HIGHLY recommend it. It's about a lingerie-buyer-turned-bumbling-bounty-hunter in Trenton, New Jersey, and it's hysterical.
You might also like
Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicholson, and its sequel
On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God, both by Louise Rennison. Very Bridget-Jones-like, told by a teenager. My friends and I can't get enough of them (don't worry about the teenage point of view). And try
Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan, too. It's not really funny, but it's a great read, a wonderful story about friendships.
And DON'T brush off Harry Potter before you've read them. I am not a fantasy reader at all, in fact most fantasy bores me to tears, but these are truly marvelous books. Take the first one out of the library and read it, that way, if you don't like it, you haven't spent any money and you can return it (and you're keeping me and my colleagues from living in a cardboard box
).