Books on BBC Radio 4 › July 2008
Every book featured on BBC Radio 4's book strands during July 2008 — Book of the Week, Book at Bedtime, Bookclub, A Good Read and other slots where the title was named on air. We pick these up each morning over the school run and add them to the list below.
Last updated: August 15th 2026 · 17 books listed for July 2008.
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
A Good Read · broadcast July 29th
ISBN: 978-0099518471
Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Rogue by David McKie
A Good Read · broadcast July 29th
ISBN: 978-1843541301
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
A Good Read · broadcast July 29th
ISBN: 978-0140449129
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
A Good Read · broadcast July 22nd
ISBN: 978-0241951590
Mercedes-Benz by Pawel Huelle
A Good Read · broadcast July 22nd
ISBN: 978-3406502699
The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
A Good Read · broadcast July 22nd
ISBN: 978-0002232616
Secrets of the Sea by Nicholas Shakespeare
A Good Read · broadcast July 15th
ISBN: 978-1846550683
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
A Good Read · broadcast July 15th
ISBN: 978-0099448471
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
A Good Read · broadcast July 15th
ISBN: 978-0007243624
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
A Good Read · broadcast July 8th
ISBN: 978-1846687860
The Gift of Stones by Jim Crace
A Good Read · broadcast July 8th
ISBN: 978-0684190709
Union Street by Pat Barker
A Good Read · broadcast July 8th
ISBN: 978-3929823288
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
Bookclub · broadcast July 6th
ISBN: 978-1844080472
The Way We Live Right Now by Anthony Trollope
BBC Radio 4 book reading · broadcast July 4th
ISBN: 978-1853262555
My French Whore: A Love Story by Gene Wilder
A Good Read · broadcast July 1st
ISBN: 978-0312360573
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
A Good Read · broadcast July 1st
ISBN: 978-0141184852
The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton
A Good Read · broadcast July 1st
ISBN: 978-0094587205