Between the end of the last TV series and the beginning of this one Virgin Publishing and BBC Books published hundreds of Doctor Who novels. Most of them were either predictable "Dr Who by numbers" stuff or pretentious fanwankery, but some of them are worth reading.
This is a list of the ones I most enjoyed. If you are a Doctor Who fan, then you might like to check them out.
Your tastes might differ from mine, so here is a list of all the recent Doctor Who novels, listed in order of the votes they recieved from readers.
The Plotters by Gareth Roberts
A First Doctor adventure about the Gunpowder Plot.
Timewyrm: Exodus by Terrance Dicks
AFAIK, the only AH Doctor Who story. The TARDIS lands in a Nazi Britain. Features the Seventh Doctor and Ace.
Just War by Lance Parkin
During the Second World War, the Doctor investigates rumours of a new saucer-shaped Nazi plane. Seventh Doctor.
Lungbarrow by Marc Platt
The Doctor visits his family on Gallifrey. Seventh Doctor.
The Dying Days by Lance Parkin
About a British manned mission to Mars. Eighth Doctor.
Alien Bodies by Lawrence Miles
My personal favourite. Fans seemed to either love or hate Lawrence Miles, who took a lot of liberties with the Doctor Who world, killing off characters, inventing new time-travelling aliens etc. Also, his writing style is rather untraditional. This book starts off with UNIT attempting to assassinate the Doctor and gets weirder (much weirder) from then on. Eighth Doctor.
Seeing I by Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman
On a colony planet, the Doctor searches for his missing companion, Sam (Samantha) Jones. Eighth Doctor.
Interference: Book One and Interference: Book Two by Lawrence Miles.
Don't read this book without having read Alien Bodies first or it won't make any sense. Not that it makes any sense anyway . . .
When the Third Doctor's TARDIS malfunctions he ends up on a sinister planet named Dust where he meets a mysterious woman named I. M. Foreman. The Eighth Doctor attends an arms fair in present-day London where he investigates a company selling high tech weapons. After he goes missing the Doctor's companion Sam meets a woman named Sarah Jane and her robot dog K9.
The Turing Test by Paul Leonard
This was part of a series in which the Eighth Doctor has lost his memory and the TARDIS doesn't work, so he is stranded on Earth with no idea who he is (although he notices he doesn't age and has two hearts).
This book takes place during the Second World War. It is written as a series of memoirs by the people the Doctor meets.
Father Time by Lance Parkin
This is part of the same series. It is set in the 1980s. The Doctor invents bottled water and becomes a millionaire, and then a management consultant. Oh yeah, there are some aliens too.
This is a list of the ones I most enjoyed. If you are a Doctor Who fan, then you might like to check them out.
Your tastes might differ from mine, so here is a list of all the recent Doctor Who novels, listed in order of the votes they recieved from readers.
The Plotters by Gareth Roberts
A First Doctor adventure about the Gunpowder Plot.
Timewyrm: Exodus by Terrance Dicks
AFAIK, the only AH Doctor Who story. The TARDIS lands in a Nazi Britain. Features the Seventh Doctor and Ace.
Just War by Lance Parkin
During the Second World War, the Doctor investigates rumours of a new saucer-shaped Nazi plane. Seventh Doctor.
Lungbarrow by Marc Platt
The Doctor visits his family on Gallifrey. Seventh Doctor.
The Dying Days by Lance Parkin
About a British manned mission to Mars. Eighth Doctor.
Alien Bodies by Lawrence Miles
My personal favourite. Fans seemed to either love or hate Lawrence Miles, who took a lot of liberties with the Doctor Who world, killing off characters, inventing new time-travelling aliens etc. Also, his writing style is rather untraditional. This book starts off with UNIT attempting to assassinate the Doctor and gets weirder (much weirder) from then on. Eighth Doctor.
Seeing I by Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman
On a colony planet, the Doctor searches for his missing companion, Sam (Samantha) Jones. Eighth Doctor.
Interference: Book One and Interference: Book Two by Lawrence Miles.
Don't read this book without having read Alien Bodies first or it won't make any sense. Not that it makes any sense anyway . . .
When the Third Doctor's TARDIS malfunctions he ends up on a sinister planet named Dust where he meets a mysterious woman named I. M. Foreman. The Eighth Doctor attends an arms fair in present-day London where he investigates a company selling high tech weapons. After he goes missing the Doctor's companion Sam meets a woman named Sarah Jane and her robot dog K9.
The Turing Test by Paul Leonard
This was part of a series in which the Eighth Doctor has lost his memory and the TARDIS doesn't work, so he is stranded on Earth with no idea who he is (although he notices he doesn't age and has two hearts).
This book takes place during the Second World War. It is written as a series of memoirs by the people the Doctor meets.
Father Time by Lance Parkin
This is part of the same series. It is set in the 1980s. The Doctor invents bottled water and becomes a millionaire, and then a management consultant. Oh yeah, there are some aliens too.