title: List of books featured on Book of the Week in 2017
text: # 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
  