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The Uncommon Reader Challenge

Welcome to 'The Uncommon Reader Challenge'. The Uncommon Reader, written by Alan Bennett and published in 2007, is a wonderfully witty, humorous and cult novel with a basic plot that the Queen falls in love with reading, causing unforeseen difficulties and encounters. It's satire at its best. This list lists all the authors/books, in order, which the Queen reads (and in a couple of cases at the outset, Norman, a young gay man who was working in the kitchens but becomes the Queen's reading 'assistant'). For this challenge, I did the following when making my list:
1) If the book only mentions an author, I've used my discretion to decide which book she would most likely have read.
2) In addition to the above, given The Uncommon Reader was published in 2007, I couldn't consider any books published from that year onwards.
So, how many of the late Queen's supposed books she read have you read? Complete The Uncommon Reader Challenge Now!
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The Uncommon Reader (Alan Bennett)
The Uncommon Reader (Alan Bennett)
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Cecil Beaton (Hugo Vickers)
Cecil Beaton (Hugo Vickers)
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Manservant and Maidservant (Ivy Compton-Burnett)
Manservant and Maidservant (Ivy Compton-Burnett)
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David Hockney (Peter Clothier)
David Hockney (Peter Clothier)
5
The Pursuit of Love (Nancy Mitford)
The Pursuit of Love (Nancy Mitford)
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Love in a Cold Climate (Nancy Mitford)
Love in a Cold Climate (Nancy Mitford)
7
My Dog Tulip (J.R. Ackerley)
My Dog Tulip (J.R. Ackerley)
8
My Father and Myself (J.R. Ackerley)
My Father and Myself (J.R. Ackerley)
9
E.M. Forster: A Life (P.N. Furbank)
E.M. Forster: A Life (P.N. Furbank)
10
Hotel Du Lac (Anita Brookner)
Hotel Du Lac (Anita Brookner)
11
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
12
Possession (A.S. Byatt)
Possession (A.S. Byatt)
13
Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas (Dylan Thomas)
Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas (Dylan Thomas)
14
A Glastonbury Romance (John Cowper Powys)
A Glastonbury Romance (John Cowper Powys)
15
Venice (Jan Morris)
Venice (Jan Morris)
16
Kilvert's Diary (Francis Kilvert)
Kilvert's Diary (Francis Kilvert)
17
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
18
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
19
A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth)
A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth)
20
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia (Heather Clark)
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia (Heather Clark)
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Lauren Bacall (Lauren Bacall)
Lauren Bacall (Lauren Bacall)
23
South Riding (Winifred Holtby)
South Riding (Winifred Holtby)
24
The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
25
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (Samuel Johnson)
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (Samuel Johnson)
26
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
27
Vanity Fair (William Thackeray)
Vanity Fair (William Thackeray)
28
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
29
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
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Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
31
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë)
32
The Convergence of the Twain (Thomas Hardy)
The Convergence of the Twain (Thomas Hardy)
33
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
34
The Elizabethan Religious Settlement (Henry Norbert Birt)
The Elizabethan Religious Settlement (Henry Norbert Birt)
35
Babar at Home (Jean De Brunhoff)
Babar at Home (Jean De Brunhoff)
36
The Best of Betjeman (John Betjeman)
The Best of Betjeman (John Betjeman)
37
Philip Larkin: Collected Poems
Philip Larkin: Collected Poems
38
Our Lady of the Flowers (Jean Genet)
Our Lady of the Flowers (Jean Genet)
39
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
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Marcel Proust: A Biography (George D. Painter)
Marcel Proust: A Biography (George D. Painter)
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