#Doctor Who Books

[luthqrs]

doctor who novelisations (2005-2023)

i just spent a considerable chunk of time sourcing as many nuwho novelisations as i could get my hands on and in the spirit of sharing i have some free gifts for the tumblr dot com population

also up for grabs: doctor who audios (x) and torchwood audios (x) (all big finish)

a list of what's there + how to open below the cut x

things you'll find here

rose

dalek

the christmas invasion

fires of pompeii

planet of the ood

waters of mars

the crimson horror

day of the doctor

zygon invasion

twice upon a time

kerblam!

the witchfinder

the star beast

wild blue yonder

the giggle

the legends of river song

the angel's kiss: a melody malone mystery

the ruby's curse

the missy chronicles

the wintertime paradox

i am the master: legends of the renegade time lord

the wonderful doctor of oz

and how to access them

do this for every book you think you’ll want to read, even if you don’t have time to read it now. don’t rely on this link always being available.

ios: tap the 3 dots -> open with -> apple books*

android: tap 3 dots -> open with -> google play books*

mac: download and open in books

or: download and put the file into an epub reader

* or any epub reader app

want something you can't have?

if there's a particular book you wanted to read that i don't have listed yet, send me an ask or pop it in the comments x

happy reading! x

[explorersaremadeofhope]

well. i did finish the book. overall not very impressed, except with this line, which is up there as a strong contender for out-of-context dw lines of all time, to me

[doctorwhoandthemidjourney]

A War TARDIS.

'The Ancestor Cell' (EDA)

[aggresivelyasexual]

Honest question, why do the Doctor Who VNA books not get the same love from the fandom as the EDA books?

[urfavssins]

fitz kreiner from doctor who novels

[hijinxed]

fucking SICK haul from my local used bookstore today!!! my partner and I are obsessed with dw so we’re very excited to read these!!!

[leelarots]

deca shitpost dump #2

here's my deca lore post if you want to hear more about who's who and my interpretations ^_^

[quantumtardis]

This is the page from the upcoming novelisation of The Giggle by James Goss that describes the regeneration scene. It's written from the Toymaker's perspective! Look how fun this is! (Transcript in image description.)

[obsessedanddepressed]

I'm. I'm pissing myself dudes

If you haven't read "In the blood", "The doctor trap" and "shining darkness", you only need to know a couple things before going ahead:

They're Doctor Who books

All of them feature the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble

The summaries ChatGpd gave are WILDLY inaccurate

Ok, proceed. This is... A ride.

I... I literally don't know what more to add. The confidence. The nerve to bold them. Just.. wow

[bee11037]

I don't think most people know since the book only came out last September, but in Rebellion on Treasure Island River appears, being her true incredible self, and here are the best parts already (I'm not done):

She wears black jeans, cowboy boots, a white shirt, a messenger bag and her belt. That and her hair is tied back.

The Doctor calls her 'wifey'

She is canonically part of the paternoster gang

literally just all the interactions are amazing!!

and the book is incredible, in it's story

[badxwolf]

Dear fanfiction writers, according to Rose in the Christmas Invasion novel, the Doctor canonically smells like “[an] odd combination of chalk dust, boiled sweets, lime and diesel.” Do with this information what you will.

[tinkerbitch69]

OwO what’s this?!

My favourite doctor? My favourite companion?! MY FAVOURITE CLASSIC NOVEL?!!!

Good to know someone at bbc books is making books for me specifically. 🥰

[doctorwhoandthemidjourney]

The Doctor explores the ice tombs of Telos.

"Tomb of the Cybermen" LEEKLEY CUTAWAY

[ocean-irl]

If you're interested in the Doctor Who books, I highly highly recommend "The Empire of Glass." I've just finished it and this book has everything:

16th century Venice

Espionage and murder

Irving Braxiatel

Exploration and critique of religious institutions

Exploration of Steven and Vicki's trauma

The Doctor performing Shakespeare

Homoeroticism

Steven taking L's left and right

Weird little creatures

The whole thing is here on the Internet Archive!

[immortalclarareborn]

"But in doing so, another aspect of the era’s core flaws becomes clear. We’ve already talked a lot about the notion of a female Doctor, and about Chibnall’s Davison revivalism of a more passive Doctor. Another key aspect, however, is that Whittaker is tasked with playing a much more childlike Doctor than we’ve had. Even Matt Smith, the previous record holder in this direction, cut his Doctor’s manic glee with a sense of weight and age. Whereas Whittaker is just playing a relatively infantilized Doctor. And Dawson picks up on this. That’s not especially surprising, because it’s one of the things about Whittaker’s Doctor that you could get off of little more than the publicity photo of her costume that dropped in November of 2017—a costume that always looked like a child slightly ineptly playing dressup.

There’s a case to be made that Doctor-as-child was always a mistake—the rotten spawn of how charming Tom Baker is when he delivers that “there’s no point in growing up if you can’t be childish sometimes” or of Patrick Troughton playing with the Daleks in Evil of the Daleks in much the same way that Kerblam! is the poison fruit of  the successful in its time Moffattian liberalism. Certainly childishness is the axis upon which the Matt Smith era began to go a bit wrong. There’s something to be said for the idea that part of the engine that makes Doctor Who work is the fact that the Doctor is sympathetic to children even as they’re not actually like a child—that this is why the show can function simultaneously as a children’s show and as an adult drama peer of Star Trek: Discovery that’s made by the same people who made Broadchurch, It’s a Sin, or Inside Man. Disrupt the balance, whether in the direction of making the Doctor too grimfaced or too childish, and the show falters.

But there’s a particular flavor of the error that comes in falling into this specific trap alongside the idea of the first female Doctor. It’s not that childish Doctors are unpopular—although ultimately Smith’s three years, for all that I’m quite partial to them, feel like the cracking of the new series’ imperial phase. But it is that childish Doctors are in a real sense lesser. If you put Whittaker next to Capaldi she is diminished, in the same way that Capaldi was enhanced in key ways by coming off the at times facile mania of Smith. At the end of the day, equating someone who was at the time the only female Doctor with being a literally more infantilized version of the character was an egregious and fundamental mistake."

You Were Expecting Someone Else: The Good Doctor by Elizabeth Sandifer