Bridget Jones's Diary
British novelist, born 1958.
Bridget Jones's Diary is a 1996 novel by Helen Fielding.
On 3 of the 21 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Helen Fielding
- First published
- 1996
- Length
- 320 pages (UK paperback)
- Genre
- Comic novels and satire, Love story, Told in letters
- Series
- Book 1 of Bridget Jones
Is Bridget Jones's Diary worth reading?
3 of the 21 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (Amazon.co.uk) and 100 novels that shaped our world (BBC Arts).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (Amazon.co.uk, 2014) | Listed | See the list |
| 100 novels that shaped our world (BBC Arts, 2019) | Listed | See the list |
| The Big Read top 100 (BBC, 2003) | No. 75 | See the list |
Best edition of Bridget Jones's Diary
The edition we link to is the Picador paperback (2014), 320 pages.
- Publisher
- Picador (paperback, 2014)
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN
- 9781447288930
How critics, prizes and readers rate Bridget Jones's Diary
Readers rate it most highly: it earned 27% of the points available on readers' and booksellers' lists, against 8% on critics' lists and 0% on prize lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
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