List of books featured on Book of the Week in 2016

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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
• Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea by Tracy Ann Oberman, read by Tracy Ann Oberman
• In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room by , read by Sudha Bhuchar

June[]

• Love from Boy – Roald Dahl's Letters to His Mother by Roald Dahl, read by Rory Kinnear and
• Only in Naples by , 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

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