Richard & Judy Book Club
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In 2004, the Richard & Judy Book Club was added as a regular segment of the show. It been credited as having a massive effect on the sales of the books it features, much like Oprah's Book Club in the USA. Each year they feature ten books and have discussions during the programme, often with guests. Alongside the discussions and programme features, the novels in contention for the Richard & Judy Book of the Year Award, presented at the British Book Awards, the winner being the book that gets the most votes from the public.
The Richard and Judy book club returned in Autumn 2010 and is run online in conjunction with retailer WH Smith.
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)
- Asne Seierstad – The Bookseller of Kabul
- Nigel Slater – Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger
- Adriana Trigiani – Lucia, Lucia
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 Conjurer'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
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)
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