title: List of books featured on Book of the Week in 2016
text: # 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
  