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List of books from the Richard & Judy Book Club

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Richard and Judy Book Club display at W.H. Smith, Enfield

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

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2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

Summer book lists

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2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

Website book lists

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2010 – Winter

2011 – Spring

2011 – Summer

2011 – Autumn

2012 – Spring

2012 – Summer

2012 – Autumn

2013 – Spring

2013 – Summer

2013 – Autumn

2014 – Spring

2014 – Summer

2014 – Autumn

  • Jane Shemilt – Daughter
  • Claire NorthThe First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
  • Daisy GoodwinThe Fortune Hunter
  • Andy WeirThe Martian
  • Sarah Hilary – Someone Else's Skin
  • Rowan Coleman – The Memory Book
  • Antonia HodgsonThe Devil in the Marshalsea
  • Rick SteinUnder a Mackerel Sky

2015 – Spring

2015 – Summer

2015 – Autumn

  • Kate MosseThe Taxidermist's Daughter
  • Peter Swanson – The Kind Worth Killing
  • Anne TylerA Spool of Blue Thread
  • Dinah JefferiesThe Tea Planter's Wife
  • S K Tremayne – The Ice Twins
  • Lucie Brownlee – Life After You
  • Catherine Chanter – The Well
  • Joseph KanonLeaving Berlin

2016 – Spring

  • Laura Barnett – The Versions of Us
  • Rosamund LuptonThe Quality of Silence
  • Ruth WareIn A Dark Dark Wood
  • Mason Cross – The Samaritan
  • Jenny Eclair – Moving
  • Sarah Winman – A Year of Marvellous Ways
  • Claire FullerOur Endless Numbered Days
  • Debbie Howells – The Bones of You

2016 – Summer

2016 – Autumn

  • Gregg HurwitzOrphan X
  • Fiona Barton – The Widow
  • Susie Steiner – Missing Presumed
  • Paula McLainCircling the Sun
  • Sharon Guskin – The Forgetting Time
  • Katarina Bivald – The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
  • Christobel Kent – The Loving Husband
  • Anna HopeThe Ballroom

2017 – Spring

2017 – Summer

2017 – Autumn

  • Ali Land - Good Me Bad Me
  • Ruth Hogan - The Keeper of Lost Things
  • Rachel Rhys - Dangerous Crossing
  • Amy Engel - The Roanoke Girls
  • Sandrone Dazieri - Kill the Father
  • Fiona Neill - The Betrayals
  • Victoria Hislop - Cartes Postales from Greece
  • Stef Penney - Under a Pole Star

2018 – Spring

2018 – Summer

2018 – Late Summer

2018 – Autumn

  • Heather Morris – Tattooist of Auschwitz
  • Amy Lloyd – The Innocent Wife
  • Sarah VaughanAnatomy of a Scandal
  • Tom HanksUncommon Type: Some Stories
  • Rhiannon Navin – Only Child
  • Sarah Haywood – The Cactus

2019 – Winter

2019 – Spring

  • Kate MosseThe Burning Chambers
  • Linda Green – The Last Thing She Told Me
  • Liane MoriartyNine Perfect Strangers
  • Heidi Perks – Now You See Her
  • Christina DalcherVox
  • Wendy Mitchell – Somebody I Used to Know

2019 – Summer

2019 – Late Summer

  • Caitlin MoranHow to be Famous
  • TM Logan – The Holiday
  • Peter JamesAbsolute Proof
  • Susan Lewis – One Minute Later
  • Anstey Harris – The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton
  • Tony Kent – Marked For Death

2019 – Autumn

2020 – Winter

2020 – Spring

2020 – Summer

2020 – Autumn

  • Kate Riordan – The Heatwave
  • Harlan CobenThe Boy From the Woods
  • Jessie BurtonThe Confession
  • Jake Jones – Can You Hear Me
  • Steve Cavanagh – Fifty Fifty
  • Lara Prior – Rough Magic

2020 – October

2020 – Winter

  • Adele Parks - Just My Luck
  • Sophie Hannah - Haven't They Grown
  • Sam Lloyd - The Memory Wood
  • Louise Candlish - The Other Passenger
  • Peter Swanson - Rules for Perfect Murders
  • Eve Chase - The Glass House

2021 – Spring

  • Jeanine Cummins - American Dirt
  • JP Delaney - Playing Nice
  • Matt Haig - The Midnight Library
  • Graham Moore - The Holdout
  • Holly Miller - The Sight of You
  • Stephanie Wrobel - The Recovery of Rose Gold

2021 – April

2021 – Summer

2021 – Autumn

2021 – Winter

2022 – Spring

2022 – April

  • Taylor Jenkins Reid - Malibu Rising
  • Shari Lapena - Not a Happy Family
  • Harriet Evans - The Beloved Girls
  • Miranda Cowley Heller - The Paper Palace
  • Lizzy Barber - Out of Her Depth
  • Kate Ruby - Tell Me Your Lies

2022 – Summer

2020 Richard & Judy: Keep Reading & Carry On

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Richard & Judy returned to Channel 4 during the UK’s first COVID-19 lockdown in response to the rise in book sales. Over 5 consecutive evenings, starting on 4th May 2020 they fronted the series Richard & Judy: Keep Reading and Carry On. Guests included authors, celebrity guests & viewer’s children (in the Kid’s Review section) to discuss new releases & favourite reads.[1]

Episode 01

Other books mentioned during this episode include: The Stand by Stephen King, This Is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay and The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits by Ant Middleton.

Episode 02

Other books mentioned during this episode include: Behind The Mask by Tyson Fury, The Lady In Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Lady Anne Glenconner, War Doctor: Surgery on the Frontline by David Nott, So Me by Graham Norton, The Life and Loves of a He Devil by Graham Norton, Apeirogon by Colum McCann, The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson and Billy by Albert French.

Episode 03

Other books mentioned during this episode include: The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary, Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Deep South by Paul Theroux, We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson.

Episode 04

Other books mentioned during this episode include: Buried by Lynda La Plante, The Inn by James Pattinson, The Chain by Adrian McKinty, The Boy In The Dress by David Walliams, Gangsta Granny by David Walliams, The Witches by Roald Dahl and Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo.

Episode 05

Other books mentioned during this episode include: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Bossypants by Tina Fey, I Made a Mistake by Jane Corry, The Ordinary Princess by M. M. Kaye and I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death by Maggie O'Farrell.

2007 Children's Book Club

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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.[2][3]

5+ / Early

  • Claire Freedman & Ben Cort – Aliens Love Underpants
  • Sally Grindley & Lindsey Gardiner – Poppy and Max and the Fashion Show

7+ / Developing

  • Andrew CopeSpy Dog
  • Betty G. Birney – The World According to Humphrey

9+ / Confident

12+ / Fluent

2011 Children’s Book Club

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In 2011, Richard & Judy relaunched the Children’s Book Club in conjunction with the BookTrust charity in an effort to get children reading & help parents choose books appropriate for their child’s literacy level.[4]

Fluent

Read by Yourself

Reading Together

New Writers Book Club

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Launched in October 2008, the club "highlights 12 debut writers over the course of a year".[5]

2008

2009

References

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  1. ^ Richard and Judy to return to Channel 4 Channel 4, 22 April 2020
  2. ^ Pauli, Michelle (2007-10-24). "Richard and Judy turn attention to children". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2008-01-09.
  3. ^ Reynolds, Nigel (2007-10-24). "Richard and Judy cast spell on children's books". London: The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2007-10-24. Retrieved 2008-01-09.
  4. ^ Richard and Judy launches kids books club The Bookseller, 27 January 2011
  5. ^ First novels selected as Richard and Judy switch channels The Guardian, 23 September 2008
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