On the BBC Radio 4 show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, one of the rounds includes suggestions for book titles that might appeal to certain sections of society - the Fishermen's Book Club etc. Here are some of the teams' suggestions, along with some additional suggestions. If you have any ideas you would like included, please e-mail me here, and I will add the best ones (with full credit to you of course)


Book Clubs:

Doctors' Book ClubFarmers' Book ClubFishermen's Book ClubGardeners' Book Club
Hospital Book ClubMusicians' Book ClubPensioners' Book ClubWeightwatchers' Book Club


Doctors' Book Club Credits
Enema of the People 25 Jun 1994
The Forcep Saga by John Gall-Bladder 25 Jun 1994
Lady Chatterley's Liver 25 Jun 1994
Paddy Doyle Ha Ha Ha, you can put your trousers back on now 25 Jun 1994
Colon the Barbarian 25 Jun 1994
Catheta Come Home 25 Jun 1994
Cistitus Andronicus 25 Jun 1994
The Rectum's Wife 25 Jun 1994
Popeye the Say Ah Man 25 Jun 1994
Diarrhoea of a Nobody 25 Jun 1994
Emily Bronte's - Worrying Bites 25 Jun 1994
Jane Austen's - Emma Roid 25 Jun 1994
The Honorary Tonsil 25 Jun 1994
Up Stethoscope 25 Jun 1994
The Greatest Supository Ever Sold 25 Jun 1994
Bleak Arse 25 Jun 1994
Hernia Shrunk The Kidneys 25 Jun 1994
Cold Compress Farm 25 Jun 1994
Farmer's Book Club Credits
Silage Marner Kevin Hale
Animal Farm Kevin Hale
Pigmalion Kevin Hale
Fishermen's Book Club Credits
The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin Kevin Hale
Far From the Madding Trout 7 Jun 1999
Catch 22 7 Jun 1999
Moll Flounders 7 Jun 1999
10 Rillington Plaice 7 Jun 1999
Lady Chatterley's Lobster 7 Jun 1999
Three Men & A Bloater 7 Jun 1999
The Kipper & The Roes 7 Jun 1999
The Lord of the Flies by J.R.Hartley 7 Jun 1999
Sequel to The Barchester Chronicles - The Crochester Barnacles by Anthony Scollop 7 Jun 1999
The Sardinic Verses by Salmon Rushdie 7 Jun 1999
Captain Correlli's Manta Ray 7 Jun 1999
Sprat is a Feminist Issue 7 Jun 1999
If you don't fancy a book, there's always top-shelf prawn! 7 Jun 1999
Great Exaggerations 7 Jun 1999
The Little Book of Clam 7 Jun 1999
Gardeners' Book Club Credits
Ivanhoe Kevin Hale
Mulch Ado About Nothing Kevin Hale
Hospital Book Club Credits
Cold Compress Farm
The Stitches Of Salem
Stump Collecting For Boys
Back Passage To India
How Gangrene Was My Valley?
The Clockwork Syringe
George Orwell's 98.4
Bridget Jones' Diarrhoea 30 Nov 1998
outside the haemorrhoid ward - Coriolanus, Jane Austen's Emma Roid, & The Ipcress Pile 30 Nov 1998
Dial M for Matron 30 Nov 1998
The C.S. Lewis omnibus - The Chronicles of Hernia 30 Nov 1998
Madame Ovary 30 Nov 1998
Bond books are very popular (well Ian Fleming did discover penicillin) - Cold Finger, Dr...No!, Thunderbowel 30 Nov 1998
From Here to Maternity 30 Nov 1998
Great Expectorations 30 Nov 1998
the department of Urology has - On Golden Pond 30 Nov 1998
anything with an Appendix 30 Nov 1998
Fatal Traction 30 Nov 1998
John Pilgrim's - The Bunions Progress 30 Nov 1998
Lady Chatterley's Liver 30 Nov 1998
Around the Ward in Eighty Days 30 Nov 1998
Anaesthesia Karenina 30 Nov 1998
The Viagra story - Hard Times 30 Nov 1998
the Queen Mother's favourite - Goodbye Mr Hips 30 Nov 1998
Gynaecological books - A Womb With a View, Cool Hand Luke 30 Nov 1998
Musicians' Book Club Credits
Billy Lyre Kevin Hale
Hey Jude The Obscure Kevin Hale
Cymbaline Kevin Hale
Captain Corelli's Mandolin Kevin Hale
Pensioners' Book Club Credits
Captain Corelli's Lanolin 26 Jun 2000
The Postman Always Has To Ring Eighteen Times 26 Jun 2000
Alice's Dentures in Wonderland 26 Jun 2000
Truss of the d'Ubervilles 26 Jun 2000
Nineteen Eighty Four - Bingo! 26 Jun 2000
The Almost Totally Complete I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Who I Am 26 Jun 2000
The Sherry Orchard 26 Jun 2000
Not Enormously Great Expectations 26 Jun 2000
Senseless Senility 26 Jun 2000
Finnigan's Awake 26 Jun 2000
Doctor, No! 26 Jun 2000
Remembrance Of Times...er...um 26 Jun 2000
Weightwatchers' Book Club Credits
James Bond's Diet Another Day 9 Dec 2002
Alice In Pizzaland 9 Dec 2002
Big Dorrit 9 Dec 2002
A Tale Of Huge Titties by Charles Thickens 9 Dec 2002
Around The Waist In Eighty Days 9 Dec 2002
The Thin Man 9 Dec 2002
Two Kilo Mockingbird 9 Dec 2002
The Return Of The Thin Man 9 Dec 2002
The Lion Bar, The Sandwich And The Wardrobe 9 Dec 2002
Anorexic Karenina 9 Dec 2002
The Diary Of Ham Shank 9 Dec 2002
Schindler's List Of Things You Can't Eat 9 Dec 2002
Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Scone 9 Dec 2002
Fatty Potter & The Loss Of A Stone 9 Dec 2002
The Thin Man Goes Home 9 Dec 2002
Round Ireland With A Fridge Packed Full Of Low Fat Yoghurt 9 Dec 2002