The Radio 2 Book Club on Simon Mayo’s Drivetime show has been featuring the best of new fiction since 2014. We have been helping Radio 2, from the start, to find great books to feature with the support of our fantastic public library partners. Find out more about the selection process.
In October 2015, the Book Club expanded, with the launch of the Fact Not Fiction feature on the Friday night Radio 2 Arts Show with Claudia Winkleman. The show highlights the best narrative non-fiction books published each season. This has doubled the choice for readers, with a new Radio 2 Book Club recommendation now available every week!
We have exclusive content on every featured title, including extracts, author information, and reader reviews. We often have fantastic prize draws, where our reading groups can win free sets of books for their group!
To see what’s on offer, here are all the books which have featured across the two shows between October and December 2015. You can leave a review for any book you have read, or if you see a book your group would like to try, you can add it to your reading list – just click the titles below:
Radio 2 Book Club titles
- When Bad Things Happen in Good Bikinis by Helen Bailey
- Home is Burning by Dan Marshall
- M Train by Patti Smith
- A Century of Scents by Lizzie Ostrom
- 438 Days: A Fisherman’s True Survival at Sea by Jonathan Franklin
- The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell
- City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
- Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith
- Slade House by David Mitchell
- Landfalls by Naomi Williams
- The Marble Collector by Cecelia Ahern
- Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin
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Feel like you’ve missed out on the shows so far? Listen again to Simon’s fiction Book Club and to Claudia’s non-fiction Book Club!
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