List of books featured on Book of the Week in 2016
# List of books featured on Book of the Week in 2016

This is a list of books which have been featured on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week during the year 2016.

## January

* Young Orson by Patrick McGilligan, read by Jack Klaff
* The Vanishing Man by Laura Cumming, read by Siobhan Redmond
* The Outrun by Amy Liptrot, read by Tracy Wiles
* Summer Before the Dark by Volker Weidermann
* Stop the Clocks by Joan Bakewell

## February

* City of Thorns by Ben Rawlence
* Benjamin Franklin in London by George Goodwin
* The Other Paris by Lucy Sante, read by Simon Russell Beale
* The Real Henry James by Henry Goodman, read by Olivia Williams

## March

* Seamus Heaney's Aeneid Book VI by Seamus Heaney, read by Ian McKellen
* Quicksand by Henning Mankell, read by Tim Pigott-Smith
* But you did not come back by Marceline Loridan-Ivens
* The Onlooker by Irène Némirovsky, read by David Suchet
* This Orient Isle by Jerry Brotton, read by Derek Jacobi

## April

* Beethoven for a Later Age by Edward Dusinberre, read by Tim McMullan
* At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell, read by Sasha Behar
* A House Full of Daughters by Juliet Nicolson, read by Juliet Stevenson

## May

* The Running Hare by John Lewis-Stempel, read by Bernard Hill
* Fingers in the Sparkle Jar by Chris Packham, ready by the author and Rachel Atkins
* Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea by Tracy Ann Oberman, read by Tracy Ann Oberman
* In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room by Aarathi Prasad, read by Sudha Bhuchar

## June

* Love from Boy – Roald Dahl's Letters to His Mother by Roald Dahl, read by Rory Kinnear and Donald Sturrock
* Only in Naples by Katherine Wilson, read by Fenella Woolgar
* Negroland by Margo Jefferson, read by the author
* The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee, read by Raj Ghatak
* White Sands by Geoff Dyer redy by Alex Jennings

## July

* Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited by Philip Eade, read by Nickolas Grace
* Van Gogh's Ear: The True Story by Bernadette Murphy, ready by Rebecca Front
* Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear, ready by Lindsay Duncan

## August

* The Age of Bowie by Paul Morley
* Flaneuse – Woman Who Walk the Cities by Lauren Elkin, read by Julianna Jennings
* Upbeat by Paul MacAlindin, read by Kenny Blyth
* Wish Lanterns by Alec Ash, read by David Seddon
* Shrinking Violets by Joe Moran, read by Nigel Planer

## September

* Beryl Bainbridge – Love by All Sorts of Means by Brendan King, read by James Fleet and Samantha Bond
* The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life by John le Carré, read by the author
* Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence by Artemis Cooper, ready by Greta Scacchi
* Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge

## October

* The Return by Hisham Matar, read by Khalid Abdalla
* The Invention of Angela Carter by Edmund Gordon, read by Emma Fielding
* A collection of essays entitled The Good Immigrant
   * "Namaste" by Nikesh Shukla, read by the author
   * "A Guide to Being Black" by Varaidzo, read by the author
   * "Flags" by Coco Khan
   * "The Ungrateful Country", by Musa Okwonga, read by the author
* Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett read by the author

## November

* The Apple Orchard by Pete Brown, read by the author
* Fear by Sir Ranulph Fiennes, read by the author
* Reality Is Not What It Seems by Carlo Rovelli, read by Mark Meadows

## December

* Mad Enchantment by Ross King, read by Allan Corduner
* This Long Pursuit by Richard Holmes, read by Patrick Malahide
* Love of Country by Madeleine Bunting, read by Doon Mackichan
* Snow by Marcus Sedgwick, read by Jonathan Firth
