Books on BBC Radio 4 › October 2025
Every book featured on BBC Radio 4's book strands during October 2025 — 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 · 22 books listed for October 2025.
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North Woods by Daniel Mason
Book at Bedtime · broadcast October 31st
ISBN: 978-1399809306
Gone Before Goodbye by Reese Witherspoon
Front Row · broadcast October 27th
ISBN: 978-1529956870
How to Write a Thesis by Umberto Eco
A Good Read · broadcast October 27th
ISBN: 978-0262527132
Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah
A Good Read · broadcast October 27th
ISBN: 978-1565841628
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
A Good Read · broadcast October 27th
ISBN: 978-1912987191
Death of an Ordinary Man by Sarah Perry
BBC Radio 4 book reading · broadcast October 25th
ISBN: 978-1787336001
The Widow by John Grisham
Front Row · broadcast October 22nd
ISBN: 978-1399703413
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Front Row · broadcast October 20th
ISBN: 978-0743255257
Open by Andre Agassi
A Good Read · broadcast October 20th
ISBN: 978-0007281435
Sonic Youth Slept on My Floor by Dave Haslam
A Good Read · broadcast October 20th
ISBN: 978-1472127525
The Secret Hours by Mick Herron
A Good Read · broadcast October 20th
ISBN: 978-1399800549
1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin
BBC Radio 4 book reading · broadcast October 18th
ISBN: 978-0241479414
Helm by Sarah Hall
Book at Bedtime · broadcast October 17th
ISBN: 978-0571383559
Piano Book 2 by Lang Lang
Front Row · broadcast October 13th
ISBN: 978-0571543502
Bear by Marian Engel
A Good Read · broadcast October 13th
ISBN: 978-0771030802
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
A Good Read · broadcast October 13th
ISBN: 978-0060916121
The Visitor by Maeve Brennan
A Good Read · broadcast October 13th
ISBN: 978-1913512637
Fly, Wild Swans by Jung Chang
BBC Radio 4 book reading · broadcast October 11th
ISBN: 978-0008661069
Riot Women by Sally Wainwright
Front Row · broadcast October 8th
ISBN: 978-0008754778
Kill Your Friends by John Niven
Bookclub · broadcast October 5th
ISBN: 978-0099592099
Dangerous Miracle by Liam Shaw
BBC Radio 4 book reading · broadcast October 4th
ISBN: 978-1847927545
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Book at Bedtime · broadcast October 3rd
ISBN: 978-0099478560