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
- Åsne Seierstad – The Bookseller of Kabul
- Nigel Slater – Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger
- Adriana Trigiani – Lucía, Lucía
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Eva Rice – The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
- Andrew Smith – Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
- 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
- Catherine Ryan Hyde – Love in the Present Tense
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 – Leaving Berlin
- 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
- Paula Hawkins – The Girl on the Train
- John Grisham – Rogue Lawyer
- Dawn French – According to Yes
- Stuart Neville – Those We Left Behind
- William Boyd – Sweet Caress
- Lisa Jewell – The Girls
- Jackie Copleton – A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding
- Cathy Rentzenbrink – The Last Act of Love
- Gregg Hurwitz – Orphan X
- Fiona Barton – The Widow
- Susie Steiner – Missing Presumed
- Paula McLain – Circling the Sun
- Sharon Guskin – The Forgetting Time
- Katarina Bivald – The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
- Christobel Kent – The Loving Husband
- Anna Hope – The Ballroom
- Jessie Burton – The Muse
- Samuel Bjork – I'm Travelling Alone
- Hollie Overton – Baby Doll
- Joanna Cannon – The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
- Bryony Gordon – Mad Girl
- Sabine Durant – Lie with Me
- Keith Stuart – A Boy Made of Blocks
- Liz Nugent – Lying in Wait
- Jodi Picoult – Small Great Things
- Shari Lapena – The Couple Next Door
- Maggie O'Farrell – This Must Be The Place
- Clare Mackintosh – I See You
- Robert Harris – Conclave
- Sarah Perry – The Essex Serpent
- Kate Eberlen – Miss You
- Tana French – The Trespasser
- Matt Haig – How to Stop Time
- John Boyne – The Heart's Invisible Furies
- Lisa Jewell – Then She Was Gone
- Jo Nesbø – The Thirst
- Fiona Barton – The Child
- Michelle Richmond – The Marriage Pact
- Cara Hunter – Close to Home
- Beth Underdown – The Witch Finder's Sister
- Elizabeth Day – The Party
- Julie Cohen – Together
- Susie Steiner – Persons Unknown
- Celeste Ng – Little Fires Everywhere
- Dinah Jefferies – The Sapphire Widow
- Harriet Evans – The Wildflowers
- Erin Kelly – He Said She Said
- Lee Child – The Midnight Line
- Leïla Slimani – Lullaby
- Joanna Cannon – Three Things About Elsie
- Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen – The Wife Between Us
- Catherine Isaac – You, Me, Everything
- David Baldacci – End Game
- Rachel Hore – Last Letter Home
- Heather Morris – Tattooist of Auschwitz
- Amy Lloyd – The Innocent Wife
- Sarah Vaughan – Anatomy of a Scandal
- Tom Hanks – Uncommon Type: Some Stories
- Rhiannon Navin – Only Child
- Sarah Haywood – The Cactus
- Alex Reeve – The House on Half Moon Street
- AJ Pearce – Dear Mrs Bird
- Elizabeth Noble – Love, Iris
- Clare Mackintosh – Let Me Lie
- A. J. Finn – The Woman In The Window
- Sarah J. Harris – The Colour of Bee Larkham's Murder
- Kate Mosse – The Burning Chambers
- Linda Green – The Last Thing She Told Me
- Liane Moriarty – Nine Perfect Strangers
- Heidi Perks – Now You See Her
- Christina Dalcher – Vox
- Wendy Mitchell – Somebody I Used to Know
- Shari Lapena – An Unwanted Guest
- Michael Connelly – Dark Sacred Night
- Jane Harper – The Lost Man
- Elly Griffiths – The Stranger Diaries
- Catherine Steadman – Something in the Water
- Kat Gordon – An Unsuitable Woman
- Caitlin Moran – How to be Famous
- TM Logan – The Holiday
- Peter James – Absolute Proof
- Susan Lewis – One Minute Later
- Anstey Harris – The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton
- Tony Kent – Marked For Death
- Stacey Halls – The Familiars
- Oyinkan Braithwaite – My Sister, The Serial Killer
- Anthony Horowitz – The Sentence is Death
- Lucinda Riley – The Butterfly Room
- C.L.Taylor – Sleep
- Samantha Downing – My Lovely Wife
- Lisa Jewell – The Family Upstairs
- Alex Michaelides – The Silent Patient
- Alex North – The Whisper Man
- Harriet Tyce – Blood Orange
- Delia Owens – Where the Crawdads Sing
- Gytha Lodge – She Lies in Wait
- Mike Gale – Half a World Away
- Christy Lefteri – The Beekeeper of Aleppo
- Tim Weaver – No One Home
- Sadie Jones – The Snakes
- Philippa Gregory – Tidelands
- Gilly Macmillan – The Nanny''
Children's Book Club
- 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 :
- * Sophie McKenzie – Girl, Missing
- * Robert Muchamore –
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
2008
- Oct: Hillary Jordan – Mudbound
- Nov: Farahad Zama – The Marriage Bureau for Rich People
- Dec: Nancy Horan – Loving Frank
- Jan: Jennie Rooney – Inside the Whale
- Feb: Melissa Benn – One of Us
- Mar: Tom Rob Smith – Child 44