List of books featured on Book of the Week

This is a list of books which have been featured on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week from 2012 onward.

2012

See List of books featured on Book of the Week in 2012

2013

See List of books featured on Book of the Week in 2013

2014

See List of books featured on Book of the Week in 2014

2015[1]

January

• Different Every Time: The Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt – Marcus O'Dair
• Reaching down the Rabbit Hole – Dr Allan H Ropper and Brian D Burrell
• Epilogue: A Memoir – Will Boast
• Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible – Peter Pomerantsev

February

• Young Eliot – Robert Crawford
• Leaving before the Rains Come – Alexandra Fuller
• Shop Girl – Mary Portas

March

• Girl in the Dark – Anna Lyndsey
• Birth of a Theorem – Cédric Villani
• The Utopia Experiment – Dylan Evans
• Boundless – Kathleen Winter

April

• Landmarks – Robert Macfarlane
• The Story of Alice – Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
• The Shepherd's Life – James Rebanks
• Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot – Mark Vanhoenacker
• Words Without Music – Philip Glass

May

• Year of the Fat Knight – Antony Sher
• The Weather Experiment – Peter Moore
• Gold Fever – Steve Boggan
• Channel Shore – Tom Fort

June

• Ghettoside – Jill Leovy
• Adventures in Human Being – Gavin Francis
• Walking Away – Simon Armitage
• Keeping an Eye Open – Julian Barnes

July

• Queen of the Desert – Georgina Howell
• All Day Long: A Portrait of Britain at Work – Joanna Biggs
• Sixty Degrees North – Malachy Tallack
• On the Move – Oliver Sacks
• Long Time No See – Hannah Lowe

August

• Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells – Dr Helen Scales
• Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley – Charlotte Gordon
• A Mountain of Crumbs – Elena Gorokhova

September

• Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads – Paul Theroux, read by Henry Goodman
• Maggie Smith: A Biography – Michael Coveney, read by Bill Nighy
• Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio – Misha Glenny read by author
• The White Road – Edmund de Waal read by Julian Rhind-Tutt

October

• Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Two: Everything She Wants – Charles Moore (journalist) read by Nicholas Farrell
• 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear – James Shapiro, read by Ian McDiarmid
• John le Carré: The Biography – Adam Sisman, read by Stephen Boxer

November

• Charlotte Bronte: A Life by Claire Harman, read by Hattie Morahan
• Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal by Jay Parini, read by Toby Jones
• Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink by Elvis Costello, read by the author
• Living On Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch 193-1995 edited by Avril Horner and Anne Rowe, read by Imogen Stubbs and Nigel Anthony
• Railways – Nation, Network and People by Simon Bradley, read by Stephen Tompkinson

December

• Alive, Alive Oh! And Other Things That Matter by Diana Athill, read by Stephanie Cole
• My History by Antonia Fraser
• The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees by Robert Penn
• The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany by Thomas Harding

2016[1]

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 Luc 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

2017[1]

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

2018[1]

January

• The Vital Spark: Appointment in Arezzo by Alan Taylor, read by Paul Higgins
• Auntie's War by Edward Stourton, read by the author
• In Search of Mary Shelley by Fiona Sampson, read by Stella Gonet
• Reading Europe: Geert Mak's In Europe by Geert Mak, read by Nicholas Farrell
• No Place to Lay One's Head by Françoise Frenkel, read by Samantha Spiro

February

• Somebody I Used to Know by Wendy Mitchell and Anna Wharton, read by Tessa Gallagher
• Owl Sense by Miriam Darlington, read by Teresea Gallagher
• Yorkshire by Richard Morris, read by Philip Jackson
• The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú, read by Joseph Balderrama

March

• The Wood by John Lewis-Stempel, read by Greg Wise

April

• Factfulness by Hans Rosling, read by Adrian Rawlins
• Packing My Library by Alberto Manguel, read by Oliver Cotton
• Dearest Squirrel by Peter Whitebrook, read by Simon Shepherd and Amanda Root
• Sharp – The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion by Michelle Dean, read by Alexandra Mathie

May

• The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah by Benjamin Zephaniah, read by the author
• The Language of Kindness by Christie Watson, read by Teresa Gallagher
• The Book by Keith Houston, read by Deborah Findlay
• Feel Free by Zadie Smith, read by the author

June

• The Stopping Places by Damian Le Bas, read by the author
• The Wind in My Hair by Masih Alinejad, read by Nathalie Armin
• The Crossway by Guy Stagg, read by Jonathan Bailey

References

1. "Book of the Week: Episode Guide". BBC Radio. BBC. Retrieved 3 August 2015.