In anticipation of a new TV series in 1997, the BBC chose not to renew Virgin Publishing's licence to publish the Doctor's continuing adventures, testing the market with a novel of the 1996 TV movie. In anticipation of this, the last New Adventure in which the Doctor appeared was the Dying Days, by Lance Parkin, which was the first original novel involving the eighth Doctor.

The BBC's continuing series of eighth Doctor adventures lasted for 73 books, starting with Terrance Dicks' The Eight Doctors and ending with Lance Parkin's The Gallifrey Chronicles. In addition to these books, a puzzle-novel, The Infinity Doctors, involving the Doctor as played by Paul McGann, and a last, out-of-sequence eighth Doctor novel, Fear Itself by Nick Wallace, ended BBC books' output in September 2005.

Doctor Who: The Novel of the Film

The Eight Doctors	Vampire Science	The Body Snatchers
Genocide	War of the Daleks	Alien Bodies
Kursaal	Option Lock	Longest Day
Legacy of the Daleks	Dreamstone Moon	Seeing I
Placebo Effect	Vanderdecken's Children	The Scarlet Empress
The Janus Conjunction	Beltempest	The Face Eater
The Taint	Demontage	Revolution Man
Dominion	Unnatural History	Autumn Mist
Interference: Book One	Interference: Book Two	The Blue Angel
The Taking of Planet 5	Frontier Worlds	Parallel 59
The Shadows of Avalon	The Fall of Yquatine	Coldheart
The Space Age	The Banquo Legacy	The Ancestor Cell
The Burning	Casualties of War	The Turing Test
Endgame	Father Time	Escape Velocity
Earthworld	Fear Itself	Vanishing Point
Eater of Wasps	The Year of Intelligent Tigers	The Slow Empire
Dark Progeny	The City of the Dead	Grimm Reality
The Adventuress of Henrietta Street	Mad Dogs and Englishmen	Hope
Anachrophobia	The Book of the Still	The Crooked World
History 101	Camera Obscura	Time Zero
The Infinity Race	The Domino Effect	Reckless Engineering
The Last Resort	Timeless	Emotional Chemistry
Sometime Never...	Halflife	The Tomorrow Windows
The Sleep of Reason	The Deadstone Memorial	To the Slaughter
The Gallifrey Chronicles

The Dying Days

The Infinity Doctors