Bridget Jones Books in Order
Bridget Jones is a thirty-something Londoner whose diary records her battles with her weight, her cigarettes, her alcohol units and her love life, caught between her caddish boss Daniel Cleaver and the stiff, decent barrister Mark Darcy. The first book began as a newspaper column.
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Series facts
- Books
- 4
- Published
- 1996 to 2016
- First book
- Bridget Jones's Diary
- Latest
- Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)
- Setting
- Set in London
The reading order
Every Bridget Jones book in publication order. Choose a title for its cast and summary.
- 1Bridget Jones's Diary1996With Bridget JonesA year in the life of Bridget Jones, a thirty-something single woman in London, told through her diary: her resolutions, her flirtation with her boss Daniel Cleaver, and her mother’s attempts to set her up with Mark Darcy, a stiff barrister in a diamond-patterned jumper.Buy on Amazon
- 2Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason1999With Bridget JonesBridget Jones is finally in a relationship with Mark Darcy, but she cannot stop worrying about it, and a rival, a trip abroad and a spell in a Thai prison follow.Buy on Amazon
- 3Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy2013With Bridget JonesBridget Jones, now in her fifties, widowed and the single mother of two young children, tries to get back into dating, with the help of Twitter and a much younger man.Buy on Amazon
- 4Bridget Jones's Baby2016With Bridget JonesBridget Jones is pregnant, and is not sure whether the father is Mark Darcy or Daniel Cleaver.Buy on Amazon
Do you need to read them in order?
Read Bridget Jones’s Diary and The Edge of Reason first. Bridget Jones’s Baby is set between them and Mad About the Boy, which is set years later.
Who appears in which book
The series’ main characters, book by book. Lead means the book is told around them; minor covers cameos.
| Book | Bridget Jones | Mark Darcy | Daniel Cleaver | Shazzer | Jude | Tom |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Bridget Jones's Diary | LLead | MMajor | MMajor | ·Minor | ·Minor | ·Minor |
| 2 Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason | LLead | MMajor | ·Minor | ·Minor | ·Minor | ·Minor |
| 3 Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy | LLead | MMajor | MMajor | ·Minor | ·Minor | ·Minor |
| 4 Bridget Jones's Baby | LLead | MMajor | ·Minor | ·Minor | ·Minor | ·Minor |
Characters in the Bridget Jones books
6 characters from Helen Fielding’s chart, with the number of Bridget Jones books each appears in.
| Character | Books | First in this series |
|---|---|---|
| Bridget JonesDiarist in her thirties | 4 | Bridget Jones's Diary 1996 |
| Mark DarcyHuman rights barrister | 4 | Bridget Jones's Diary 1996 |
| Daniel CleaverBridget's caddish boss | 4 | Bridget Jones's Diary 1996 |
| ShazzerBridget's feminist friend | 4 | Bridget Jones's Diary 1996 |
| JudeBridget's friend | 4 | Bridget Jones's Diary 1996 |
| TomBridget's gay friend | 4 | Bridget Jones's Diary 1996 |