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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
1
Alan Bennett
Cecil Beaton (Hugo Vickers)
Cecil Beaton
2
Hugo Vickers
Manservant and Maidservant (Ivy Compton-Burnett)
Manservant and Maidservant
3
Ivy Compton-Burnett
David Hockney (Peter Clothier)
David Hockney
4
Peter Clothier
The Pursuit of Love (Nancy Mitford)
The Pursuit of Love
5
Nancy Mitford
Love in a Cold Climate (Nancy Mitford)
Love in a Cold Climate
6
Nancy Mitford
My Dog Tulip (J.R. Ackerley)
My Dog Tulip
7
J.R. Ackerley
My Father and Myself (J.R. Ackerley)
My Father and Myself
8
J.R. Ackerley
E.M. Forster: A Life (P.N. Furbank)
E.M. Forster: A Life
9
P.N. Furbank
Hotel Du Lac (Anita Brookner)
Hotel Du Lac
10
Anita Brookner
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
Atonement
11
Ian McEwan
Possession (A.S. Byatt)
Possession
12
A.S. Byatt
Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas (Dylan Thomas)
Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
13
Dylan Thomas
A Glastonbury Romance (John Cowper Powys)
A Glastonbury Romance
14
John Cowper Powys
Venice (Jan Morris)
Venice
15
Jan Morris
Kilvert's Diary (Francis Kilvert)
Kilvert's Diary
16
Francis Kilvert
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs. Dalloway
17
Virginia Woolf
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
18
Charles Dickens
A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth)
A Suitable Boy
19
Vikram Seth
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children
20
Salman Rushdie
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia (Heather Clark)
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia
21
Heather Clark
Lauren Bacall (Lauren Bacall)
Lauren Bacall
22
Lauren Bacall
South Riding (Winifred Holtby)
South Riding
23
Winifred Holtby
The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
The Portrait of a Lady
24
Henry James
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (Samuel Johnson)
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
25
Samuel Johnson
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield
26
Charles Dickens
Vanity Fair (William Thackeray)
Vanity Fair
27
William Thackeray
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
28
George Eliot
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
29
Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
30
Emily Bronte
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
31
Anne Brontë
The Convergence of the Twain (Thomas Hardy)
The Convergence of the Twain
32
Thomas Hardy
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
33
Charles Dickens
The Elizabethan Religious Settlement (Henry Norbert Birt)
The Elizabethan Religious Settlement
34
Henry Norbert Birt
Babar at Home (Jean De Brunhoff)
Babar at Home
35
Jean De Brunhoff
The Best of Betjeman (John Betjeman)
The Best of Betjeman
36
John Betjeman
Philip Larkin: Collected Poems
Philip Larkin: Collected Poems
37
Our Lady of the Flowers (Jean Genet)
Our Lady of the Flowers
38
Jean Genet
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
39
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust: A Biography (George D. Painter)
Marcel Proust: A Biography
40
George D. Painter
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