List of books from the Richard & Judy Book Club
The following is a list of books from the Richard & Judy Book Club, featured on the television chat show. The show was cancelled in 2009, but since 2010 the lists have been continued by the Richard and Judy Book Club, a website run in conjunction with retailer W H Smith.
Main list
2004
- Monica Ali – Brick Lane
- Martina Cole – The Know
- William Dalrymple – White Mughals
- Zoë Heller – Notes on a Scandal
- David Nicholls – Starter for Ten
- Joseph O'Connor – Star of the Sea
- Alice Sebold – The Lovely Bones (winner)
- Åsne Seierstad – The Bookseller of Kabul
- Nigel Slater – Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger
- Adriana Trigiani – Lucía, Lucía
2005
- William Brodrick – The Sixth Lamentation
- Paula Byrne – Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson
- Justin Cartwright – The Promise of Happiness
- Karen Joy Fowler – The Jane Austen Book Club
- Chris Heath – Feel: Robbie Williams
- David Mitchell – Cloud Atlas (winner)
- Audrey Niffenegger – The Time Traveler's Wife
- Jodi Picoult – My Sister's Keeper
- Andrew Taylor – The American Boy
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón – The Shadow of the Wind
2006
- Julian Barnes – Arthur & George
- Richard Benson – The Farm
- Geraldine Brooks – March
- Michael Connelly – The Lincoln Lawyer
- Martin Davies – The Conjuror's Bird
- Nicole Krauss – The History of Love
- Anchee Min – Empress Orchid
- Kate Mosse – Labyrinth (winner)
- Eva Rice – The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
- Andrew Smith – Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
2007
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Half of a Yellow Sun
- William Boyd – Restless
- A. M. Homes – This Book Will Save Your Life
- Lori Lansens – The Girls
- James Robertson – The Testament of Gideon Mack
- Griff Rhys Jones – Semi-detached
- Jed Rubenfeld – The Interpretation of Murder (winner)
- Catherine Ryan Hyde – Love in the Present Tense
2008
- Danny Scheinmann – Random Acts of Heroic Love
- Katharine McMahon – Rose of Sebastopol
- Roger Jon Ellory – A Quiet Belief in Angels
- Patrick Gale – Notes from an Exhibition
- Joshua Ferris – Then We Came to the End
- Mark Slouka – Visible World
- Lloyd Jones – Mister Pip
- Tim Butcher – Blood River
- Peter Ho Davies – The Welsh Girl
- Khaled Hosseini – A Thousand Splendid Suns (winner)
2009
- Jesse Kellerman - The Brutal Art
- Kate Summerscale - The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
- Andrew Davidson - The Gargoyle
- Kate Atkinson - When Will There Be Good News?
- David Ebershoff - The 19th Wife
- Frances Osborne - The Bolter: Idina Sackville-The Woman Who Scandalised 1920s Society and Became White Mischief's Infamous Seductress
- Joseph O'Neil - Netherland
- Beatrice Colin - The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite
- Elizabeth H. Winthrop - December
- Steven Galloway - The Cellist of Sarajevo
Summer book lists
2004
- Jennifer Donnelly – A Gathering Light
- P. J. Tracy – Want to Play?
- Cecelia Ahern – PS, I Love You
- Maile Meloy – Liars and Saints
- Ben Richards – The Mermaid and the Drunks
- Bella Pollen – Hunting Unicorns
2005
- Karen Quinn – The Ivy Chronicles
- George Hagen – The Laments
- Anthony Capella – The Food of Love
- Susan Fletcher- Eve Green
- Ben Sherwood – The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud
- David Wolstencroft – Good News, Bad News
2006
- Jim Lynch – The Highest Tide
- Sam Bourne – The Righteous Men
- Victoria Hislop – The Island
- Dorothy Koomson – My Best Friend's Girl
- Elisabeth Hyde – The Abortionist's Daughter
- Elizabeth Kostova – The Historian
2007
- Kim Edwards – The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- Simon Kernick – Relentless
- Kate Morton – The House at Riverton
- Paul Torday – Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
- Jane Fallon – Getting Rid of Matthew
- Mark Mills – The Savage Garden
- Jonathan Tropper – How to talk to a Widower
- Mary Lawson – The Other Side of the Bridge
2008
- Sadie Jones – The Outcast
- Linwood Barclay – No Time For Goodbye
- Julia Gregson – East of the Sun
- John Hart – Down River
- Margret Cezair – The Pirate's Daughter
- Rebecca Miller – The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
- Toni Jordan – Addition
- James Bradley – The Resurrectionist
2009
- Julian Fellowes – Past Imperfect
- Dave Boling – Guernica
- Stephen L. Carter – Palace Council
- Charles Elton – Mr Toppit
- Jill Dawson – The Great Lover
- Colin Bateman – Mystery Man
- Sue Miller – The Senator's Wife
- Janice Y. K. Lee – The Piano Teacher
Website book lists
2010 - Winter
- Rosamund Lupton – Sister
- Delphine de Vigan - No and Me
- Jo Nesbø - The Snowman
- Naseem Rakha - The Crying Tree
- Thomas Trofimuk - Waiting for Columbus
- Maria McCann - The Wilding
- Rachel Hore - A Place of Secrets
- Ben Macintyre - Operation Mincemeat
2011 - Spring
- Nigel Farndale – The Blasphemer
- Helen Simonson – Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
- Lucinda Riley – Hothouse Flower
- Suzanne Bugler – This Perfect World
- Emma Donoghue – Room
- Gregg Hurwitz – You're Next
- Rose Tremain – Trespass
- Sarah Blake – The Postmistress
2011 - Summer
- Sarah Winman – When God Was a Rabbit
- Suzannah Dunn – The Confessions of Katherine Howard
- Jed Rubenfeld – The Death Instinct
- Natasha Solomons – The Novel in the Viola
- Erin Kelly – The Poison Tree
- Elizabeth Speller – The Return of Captain John Emmett
- Anna Quindlen – Every Last One
- Bella Pollen – The Summer of the Bear
2011 - Autumn
- Megan Abbott – The End Of Everything
- Aimee Bender – The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
- Peter May – The Blackhouse
- Lisa Genova – Left Neglected
- Michelle Paver – Dark Matter
- Carol Birch – Jamrach's Menagerie
- Araminta Hall – Everything and Nothing
- David Hosp – Next of Kin
2012 - Spring
- Amanda Brooke - Yesterday's Sun
- Louisa Young - My Dear i Wanted To Tell You
- Paula McLain - The Paris Wife
- S. J. Watson - Before I Go To Sleep
- Mons Kallentoft - Midwinter Sacrifice
- Jojo Moyes - Me Before You
- Alison Littlewood - A Cold Season
- Rachel Simon - The Story of Beautiful Girl
2012 - Summer
- Victoria Hislop - The Thread
- Erin Morgenstern - The Night Circus
- Louise Douglas - The Secret Between Us
- Laura Harrington - Alice Bliss
- Shelley Harris - Jubilee
- Robert Harris - The Fear Index
- Lars Kepler - The Hypnotist
- Penny Hancock - Tideline
- Emylia Hall - The Book Of Summers
- Patrick Gale - A Perfectly Good Man
2012 - Autumn
- Elizabeth Noble -Between A Mother And Her Child
- Maria Duenas - The Seamstress
- Lisa Ballantyne - The Guilty One
- Ben Macintyre - Double Cross
- Eowyn Ivey - The Snow Child
- Hannah Richell - Secrets Of The Tides
- Adriana Trigiani - The Shoemaker's Wife
- Robert Goddard - Fault Line
- Helen Dunmore - The Greatcoat
- Anthony Horowitz - The House Of Silk
2013 - Spring
- Rachel Joyce -The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
- David Mark - Dark Winter
- John Green - The Fault in Our Stars
- Charity Norman - After The Fall
- Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl
- Chris Cleave - Gold
- Julia Gregson - Jasmine Nights
- Noah Hawley - The Good Father
- Grace McCleen - The Land Of Decoration
- Jennifer McVeigh - The Fever Tree
2013 - Summer
- Karen Walker - The Age Of Miracles
- Sophie McKenzie - close My Eyes
- Kathleen MacMahon - This Is How It Ends
- James Oswald - Natural Causes
- M.L.Stedman - The Light Between Oceans
- Joanna Rossiter - The Sea Change
- Gavin Extence - The Universe Versus Alex Woods
- Simon Mawer - The Girl Who Fell From The Sky
- Lucy Clarke - The Sea Sisters
- Liza Klaussman - Tigers In Red Weather
2013 - Autumn
- Lauren Beukes - The Shining Girls
- Maggie O'Farrell - Instructions For A Heatwave
- Deborah Moggach - Heartbreak Hotel
- Tim Weaver - Never Coming Back
- Tracy Chevalier - The Last Runaway
- Saskia Sarginson - The Twins
- Liane Moriarty - The Husband's Secret
- Nele Neuhaus - Snow White Must Die
2014 - Spring
- Jodi Picoult - The Storyteller
- Louise Doughty - Apple Tree Yard
- Sian Busby - A Commonplace Killing
- Graeme Simsion - The Rosie Project
- Koethi Zan - The Never List
- Curtis Sittenfeld - Sisterland
- Jo Baker - Longbourn
- Becky Masterman - Rage Against Dying
2014 - summer
- Khaled Hosseini - And the Mountains Echoed
- Terry Hayes - I Am Pilgrim
- Robert Harris - An Officer and a Spy
- Helen Dunmore - The Lie
- M. J. Arlidge - Eeny Meeny
- Julie Cohen - Dear Thing
- Lucie Whitehouse - Before We Met
- Sinead Moriarty - Mad About You
2014 - Autumn
- Jane Shemilt - Daughter
- Claire North - The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
- Daisy Goodwin - The Fortune Hunter
- Andy Weir - The Martian
- Sarah Hilary - Someone Else's Skin
- Rowan Coleman - The Memory Book
- Antonia Hodgson - The Devil in the Marshalsea
- Rick Stein - Under a Mackerel Sky
2015 - Spring
- Jessie Burton - The Miniaturist
- Claire Kendal - The Book of You
- Emma Healey - Elizabeth is Missing
- Tony Parsons - The Murder Bag
- Anna McPartlin - The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes
- Sheila Hancock - Miss Carter's War
- Charles Cumming - A Colder War
- Naomi Wood - Mrs. Hemingway
2015 - Summer
- David Nicholls - Us
- Joel Dicker - The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair
- Linwood Barclay - No Safe House
- Fredrik Backman - A Man Called Ove
- Nick Hornby - Funny Girl
- Vanessa Lafaye - Summertime
- Clare Mackintosh - I let You Go
- Carys Bray - A Song For Issy Bradley
2015 - Autumn
- Kate Mosse - The Taxidermist's Daughter
- Peter Swanson - The Kind Worth Killing
- Anne Tyler - A Spool of Blue Thread
- Dinah Jefferies - The Tea Planter's Wife
- S K Tremayne - The Ice Twins
- Lucie Brownlee - Life After You
- Catherine Chanter - The Well
- Joseph Kanon - The Bones of You
2016 - Spring
- Laura Barnett - The Versions of Us
- Rosamund Lupton - The Quality of Silence
- Ruth Ware - In A Dark Dark Wood
- Mason Cross - The Samaritan
- Jenny Eclair - Moving
- Sarah Winman - A Year of Marvellous Ways
- Claire Fuller - Our Endless Numbered Days
- Debbie Howells - The Bones of You
Children's Book Club
In 2007, Richard and Judy hosted a special Children's Book Club edition of the show as part of Channel 4's "Lost For Words" season. The featured books were chosen with the help of pupils from several schools around the UK.[1][2]
- 5+ / Early :
- Claire Freedman & Ben Cort - Aliens Love Underpants
- Sally Grindley & Lindsey Gardiner - Poppy and Max and the Fashion Show
- 7+ / Developing :
- Andrew Cope - Spy Dog
- Betty G. Birney - The World According to Humphrey
- 9+ / Confident :
- Mark Walden - H.I.V.E. Higher Institute of Villainous Education
- Derek Landy - Skulduggery Pleasant
- 12+ / Fluent :
2011
- Muncle Trogg by Janet Foxley
- Winnie Goes Batty by Laura Owen and Korky Paul
- Roodica the Rude and The Famous Flea Trick by Margaret Ryan
- Molly’s Magic: The Witch’s Kitten by Holly Webb
- Jake the Good Bad Dog by Annette and Nick Butterworth
- Will Gallows and the Snake-Bellied Troll by Derek Keilty
- Scream Street: Heart of the Mummy by Tommy Donbavand
- The Magic Princess Dress by Gwyneth Ree
- Horrid Henry and the Football Fiend by Francesca Simon and Tony Ross
- Max & Molly’s Guide to Trouble: How to Catch a Criminal by Dominic Barker and Hannah Shaw
- Flood and Fang by Marcus Sedgwick
- Claude in the City by Alex T Smith
- Dinosaur Cove: Attack of the Lizard King by Rex Stone
- The Ogre of Oglefort by Eve Ibbotson
- Scarlett Dedd by Cathy Brett
- Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder by Jo Nesbo
- Vordak the Incomprehensible by Scott Seegert
- The Wombles by Elisabeth Beresford
New Writers Book Club
Launched in October 2008, the club "highlights 12 debut writers over the course of a year".[3]
2008
- Oct: Hillary Jordan – Mudbound
- Nov: Farahad Zama – The Marriage Bureau for Rich People
- Dec: Nancy Horan – Loving Frank
2009
- Jan: Jennie Rooney – Inside the Whale
- Feb: Melissa Benn – One of Us
- Mar: Tom Rob Smith – Child 44
References
- ↑ Pauli, Michelle (2007-10-24). "Richard and Judy turn attention to children". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 2008-01-09.
- ↑ Reynolds, Nigel (2007-10-24). "Richard and Judy cast spell on children's books". London: The Telegraph. Retrieved 2008-01-09.
- ↑ First novels selected as Richard and Judy switch channels The Guardian, 23 September 2008
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