1998

3.5.98 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

7.6.98 Beloved – Toni Morrison

5.7.98 Fatherland – Robert Harris

2.8.98 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernières

6.9.98 Wild Swans – Jung Chang

4.10.98 Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt

1.11.98 Vanity Fair – William Thackery

6.12.98 Possession – AS Byatt

1999

3.1.99 1,000 Acres – Jane Smiley

7.2.99 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy / Honourable School Boy / Smiley’s People – John Le Carre

7.3.99 Brazzaville Beach – William Boyd

4.4.99 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

2.5.99 Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood

6.6.99 Snow Falling on Cedars – David Gutterson

4.7.99 Behind the Scenes At the Museum – Kate Atkinson

1.8.99 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – JK Rowling

5.9.99 Private Papers – Margaret Forster

3.10.99 Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels

7.11.99 Longitude – Dava Sobel

5.12.99 Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes

2000

2.1.00 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

6.2.00 House of Spirits – Isabel Allende

5.3.00 Larry’s Party – Carol Shields

2.4.00 Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier

7.5.00 Northern Lights – Philip Pullman

4.6.00 In the Springtime of the Year – Susan Hill

2.7.00 Fasting, Feasting – Anita Desai

6.8.00 Stalingrad – Anthony Beevor

3.9.00 Other People’s Children – Joanna Trollope

1.10.00 Enduring Love – Ian McEwan

22.10.00 The Miller’s Tale/Prologue – Geoffrey Chaucer

3.12.00 Waterland – Graham Swift

2001

7.1.01 Man and Boy – Tony Parsons

4.2.01 Moon Tiger – Penelope Lively

4.3.01 Touching the Void – Joe Simpson

1.4.01 The Witch of Exmoor – Margaret Drabble

6.5.01 The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy

3.6.01 The Shipping News – Annie Proulx

1.7.01 The Kitchen God’s Wife – Amy Tan

5.8.01 London Fields – Martin Amis

2.9.01 The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing

7.10.01 If I Don’t Know, Serious Concerns, Making Cocoa – Wendy Cope for Kingsley Amis

4.11.01 Talking to the Dead – Helen Dunmore

2.12.01 About a Boy – Nick Hornby

2002

6.1.02 Knots and Crosses / The Falls – Ian Rankin

3.2.02 Empire of the Sun – JG Ballard

3.3.02 Music and Silence – Rose Tremain

7.4.02 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

5.5.02 Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter – Mario Vargas Llosa

2.6.02 Headlong – Michael Frayn

7.7.02 See Under Love – David Grossman

4.8.02 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou

1.9.02 From the Holy Mountain – William Dalrymple

6.10.02 A Dark-Adapted Eye – Barbara Vine

3.11.02 The Illustrated Mum – Jacqueline Wilson

1.12.02 Polo – Jilly Cooper

2003

5.1.03 Writing Home – Alan Bennett

2.2.03 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

2.3.03 After Rain – William Trevor

6.4.03 An Awfully Big Adventure – Beryl Bainbridge

4.5.03 Original Sin – PD James

1.6.03 Rebecca – Sally Beauman for Daphne du Maurier

6.7.03 The Tortilla Curtain – T Coraghessan Boyle

3.8.03 Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire – Amanda Foreman

7.9.03 Down by the River – Edna O’Brien

5.10.03 Junk – Melvin Burgess

2.11.03 Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud

7.12.03 Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd

2004

4.1.04 Clinging to the Wreckage and Rumpole & the Younger Generation – John Mortimer

1.2.04 True History of the Kelly Gang – Peter Carey

7.3.04 Fingersmith – Sarah Waters

4.4.04 Falling – Elizabeth Jane Howard

2.5.04 Nice Work – David Lodge

6.6.04 The Scold’s Bridle – Minette Walters

7.7.04 Mort – Terry Pratchett

1.8.04 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark

5.9.04 The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster

3.10.04 How the Dead Live – Will Self

7.11.04 Regeneration – Pat Barker

5.12.04 The World’s Wife – Carol Ann Duffy

2005

2.1.05 White Teeth – Zadie Smith

6.2.05 A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson

6.3.05 The Hippopotamus – Stephen Fry

3.4.05 Independence Day – Richard Ford

1.5.05 Small Island – Andrea Levy

5.6.05 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾
- Sue Townsend

3.7.05 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- Dr Oliver Sacks

7.8.05 Blood Rain – Michael Dibden

4.9.05 Le Grand Meaulnes – Alain-Fournier
[Michèle Roberts was our guide]

2.10.05 The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi

6.11.05 The Gunpowder Plot – Antonia Fraser

4.12.05 We Were the Mulvaneys – Joyce Carol Oates

2006

1.1.06 Flashman – George MacDonald Fraser

5.2.06 Holidays in Hell – P.J. O’Rourke

5.3.06 We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver

2.4.06 Noughts and Crosses – Malorie Blackman

7.5.06 Hotel World – Ali Smith

4.6.06 Time to Depart – Lindsey Davis

2.7.06 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
- John Berendt

6.8.06 Rum Punch – Elmore Leonard

3.9.06 English Passengers – Matthew Kneale

1.10.06 Old Filth – Jane Gardam

5.11.06 Malignant Sadness – Lewis Wolpert

3.12.06 Miss Garnet’s Angel – Salley Vickers

2007

7.1.07 The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen

4.2.07 The Mermaids Singing – Val McDermid

4.3.07 Eleanor of Aquitaine – Alison Weir

1.4.07 What A Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe

6.5.07 My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult

3.06.07 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell

1.07.07 The Female Eunuch – Germaine Greer

5.08.07 The Remorseful Day – Colin Dexter

2.09.07 Tales of City – Armistead Maupin

7.10.07 Joseph Knight – James Robertson

4.11.07 The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver

2.12.07 Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally

2008

6.01.08 Alice Sebold -The Lovely Bones

3.02.08 The Birth of Venus – Sarah Dunant

2.03.08 William Pitt the Younger, A Biography – William Hague

6.04.08 Simon Armitage – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

4.05.08 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Half of a Yellow Sun

8.06.08 Jan Morris – Venice

6.07.08 ÅsneSeierstad – The Bookseller of Kabul

3.08.08 Colm Toibin – The Master

7.09.08 Gore Vidal – Point to Point Navigation

Complete list of Radio 4 book club books from 1998-2008 is a post from: Book Addicts Book Group