******* USA Today *’s top 100 books to read while stuck at home social distancing* *** The iconic #1 bestseller by Helen Fielding; Bridget Jones is now the inspiration for the September 2016 Working Title film release of *Bridget Jones’s Baby* , starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey and Emma Thompson. *** Bridget Jones’s Diary *is the devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud account of a year in the life of a thirty-something Singleton on a permanent doomed quest for self-improvement. Caught between the joys of Singleton fun, and the fear of dying alone and being found three weeks later half eaten by an Alsatian; tortured by Smug Married friends asking, How’s your love life? with lascivious, yet patronizing leers, Bridget resolves to: reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1.5 inches, visit the gym three times a week not just to buy a sandwich, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult and learn to program the VCR. With a blend of flighty charm, existential gloom, and endearing self-deprecation,* Bridget Jones’s Diary* has touched a raw nerve with millions of readers the world round. Read it and laugh—before you cry, Bridget Jones is me!