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