Books on BBC Radio 4 › July 2026
Every book featured on BBC Radio 4's book strands during July 2026 — 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 · 34 books listed for July 2026.
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Foster by Claire Keegan
A Good Read · broadcast July 31st
ISBN: 978-0571392599
Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession
A Good Read · broadcast July 31st
ISBN: 978-1910422441
Smile or Die by Barbara Ehrenreich
A Good Read · broadcast July 31st
ISBN: 978-1783787531
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Book at Bedtime · broadcast July 31st
ISBN: 978-1837265923
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
A Good Read · broadcast July 30th
Making Babies by Anne Enright
A Good Read · broadcast July 30th
ISBN: 978-0224062930
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
A Good Read · broadcast July 30th
ISBN: 978-1853260735
A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar
A Good Read · broadcast July 29th
ISBN: 978-0593129135
My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley
A Good Read · broadcast July 29th
ISBN: 978-1783783267
The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean Mackay
A Good Read · broadcast July 29th
ISBN: 978-1912854523
All Made Up by Janice Galloway
A Good Read · broadcast July 28th
ISBN: 978-1847082480
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
A Good Read · broadcast July 28th
The Girl from the Fiction Department by Hilary Spurling
A Good Read · broadcast July 28th
ISBN: 978-1582432434
Contempt by Alberto Moravia
A Good Read · broadcast July 24th
ISBN: 978-1590171226
The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese
A Good Read · broadcast July 24th
ISBN: 978-0241983393
The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
A Good Read · broadcast July 24th
ISBN: 978-0394583129
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
A Good Read · broadcast July 20th
ISBN: 978-1784745677
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
A Good Read · broadcast July 20th
ISBN: 978-0670724260
Cash Cow by Alev Scott
Book of the Week · broadcast July 18th
ISBN: 978-0008724948
Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
Front Row · broadcast July 15th
ISBN: 978-1444987133
Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth by Naguib Mahfouz
A Good Read · broadcast July 13th
ISBN: 978-9774244704
Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy
A Good Read · broadcast July 13th
ISBN: 978-0241761717
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
A Good Read · broadcast July 13th
That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor by Anne Sebba
Bookclub · broadcast July 12th
On Thin Ice: A Memoir of Siberia, Surveillance and Survival by Charlie Walker
Book of the Week · broadcast July 11th
ISBN: 978-0715656730
A Life's Music by Andreï Makine
A Good Read · broadcast July 6th
ISBN: 978-0340820087
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
A Good Read · broadcast July 6th
ISBN: 978-0006546061
Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household
A Good Read · broadcast July 6th
ISBN: 978-0435120740
Trouble Was by Charlotte Edwardes
Front Row · broadcast July 2nd
ISBN: 978-1526698605