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Mindy Kaling's Rom-Com and Romance Reading List
Mindy Kaling is an actress, writer and producer (The Office, The Mindy Project, Never Have I Ever) who has written about her love of romantic comedies and romance novels. This list gathers books she has named in interviews and on social media, from Bridget Jones to Austen, Wharton and Jhumpa Lahiri.
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Bridget Jones's Diary
Helen Fielding, 1996, american fiction
“Start here. Kaling calls it an amazing book as well as a favourite movie, and she likes its wish-fulfilment take on modern romance.”
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
Adelle Waldman, 2013, fiction
“The cold-water counterpart to Bridget. Kaling picked it as a realistic, cringe-inducing look at modern dating, and recommended it as a gift alongside Bridget Jones.”
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen, 1811, austen
“Kaling likes the Dashwood sisters more than the characters in Pride and Prejudice. If you've only read the famous Austen, this is her case for trying the other one.”
American Wife
Curtis Sittenfeld, 2008, fiction
“For readers who like a heroine with some darkness in her. Kaling loves the lead and wondered aloud why it hasn't been filmed.”
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton, 1905, literature
“Her first true favourite, read at school. She identified with Lily Bart, and she said so again in an EW book quiz.”
