Helen Fielding's latest Bridget Jones novel, David Jason's autobiography and books by comedians French and Saunders are all up for National Book Awards.
The awards are designed to reflect the public's best-loved books of the year.
Category winners are announced on 11 December, after which a public vote decides the overall book of the year.
Previous winners of the main prize include erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey, Caitlin Moran's autobiography How To Be A Woman, and star-crossed romance One Day.
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Helen Fielding is nominated in the popular fiction category for Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy - which received a critical mauling on its release last month.
The Sunday Times called it "emotionally inauthentic", while The Daily Telegraph described it variously as "toe-curling", "foolish" and "unreal".
It goes up against better-received novels, including William Boyd's Solo, which takes James Bond back to his roots in pulp paperback, Philippa Gregory's The White Princess, which recounts the story of Elizabeth, wife of Henry VII.
Other nominees include Dawn French's Oh Dear Sylvia; Adele Parks's The State We're In; and An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris.
The late Iain Banks, who died in June shortly after announcing he had inoperable cancer, is nominated in the best UK author category.
The Scottish author, whose books include The Wasp Factory and The Crow Road, published a final, posthumous novel, The Quarry, in June.
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