List of books featured on Book of the Week in 2017
# List of books featured on Book of the Week in 2017

This is a list of books which have been featured on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week during 2017.

## January

* Labyrinths by Catrine Clay, read by Deborah Findlay and Henry Goodman
* The Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch
* The Novel of the Century by David Bellos, read by Daniel Weyman
* Man of Iron by Julian Glover, read by Robin Laing

## February

* Once Upon a Time in the East by Xiaolu Guo, read by Chipo Chung
* Age of Anger by Pankaj Mishra, read by the author
* Deaths of the Poets by Michael Symmons Roberts and Paul Farley, read by the authors
* Border – Tales from the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova, read by Indira Varma

## March

* What Happened, Miss Simone? by Alan Light, read by Alibe Parsons
* The Rule of the Land by Garrett Carr, read by John Paul Connolly
* The Word Detective by John Simpson, read by Nigel Anthony
* Fathers and Sons by Howard Cunnell, read by James Lailey
* Be Like the Fox by Erica Benner, read by Toby Jones

## April

* And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos by John Berger, read by Simon McBurney
* David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet by Thomas Dilworth, read by Nicholas Farrell

## May

* Balancing Acts by Nicholas Hytner, read by the author
* Between Them by Richard Ford
* Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh, read by Robert Powell
* Sound by Bella Bathurst, read by Adjoa Andoh
* Farewell to the Horse by Ulrich Raulff, read by Iain Glen

## June

* The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead, read by Juliet Stevenson
* The Secret Life by Andrew O'Hagan, read by the author
* The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St Clair, read by Francesca Dymond
* Believe Me by Eddie Izzard, read by the author

## July

* Big Pig, Little Pig by Jacqueline Yallop, read by Imogen Stubbs
* RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR by Philip Hoare, read by Tobias Menzies
* Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight by Naoki Higashida, translated by David Mitchell, read by Matthew Beard
* Shark Drunk by Morten Stroksnes, translated by Tiina Nunnally, read by Adrian Scarborough

## August

* The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich, read by Sarah Badel, Teresa Gallagher and Jane Whittenshaw
* Gainsborough: A Portrait by James Hamilton, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt
* The Hungry Empire by Lizzie Collingham, read by Melody Grove
* I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell, read by Hattie Morahan
* How Not to Be a Boy by Robert Webb, read by the author

## September

* Every Third Thought by Robert McCrum, read by Nicky Henson
* South and West by Joan Didion, read by Laurel Lefkow
* Following Pappano
* Wounds by Fergal Keane

## October

* The Rub of Time by Martin Amis, read by Bill Nighy
* The Letters of Sylvia Plath, read by Lydia Wilson
* How to Be Champion by Sarah Millican, read by the author
* Daemon Voices by Philip Pullman
* Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time by Hilary Spurling, read by Hattie Morahan

## November

* Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively, read by Stephanie Cole
* The Dawn Watch by Katrin Williams, read by Laurel Lefkow
* The Vanity Fair Diaries by Tina Brown, read by the author
* Lou Reed: A Life by Demetri Goritsas, read by the author

## December

* Over and Out by Henry Blofeld, read by the author
* A collection of letters on the theme of Letters from South Africa
   * Strangers by Bongani Kona, read by the author
   * Mark Gevisser
   * Shosholoza: The Train that Keeps Moving by Panashe Chigumadzi, read by the author
   * This Is What a Country Looks Like When it Is Collapsing by Lidudumalingani Mqombothi
   * Johannesburg by Fiona Melrose, read by the author
* Village Christmas by Laurie Lee, read by Derek Jacobi
* Adventures of a Young Naturalist by David Attenborough
