Books on BBC Radio 4 › December 2020
Every book featured on BBC Radio 4's book strands during December 2020 — Book of the Week, Book at Bedtime, Bookclub, A Good Read and other slots where the title was named on air. We pick these up each morning over the school run and add them to the list below.
Last updated: August 15th 2026 · 12 books listed for December 2020.
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Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach
Front Row · broadcast December 29th
ISBN: 978-0197690628
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
BBC Radio 4 book reading · broadcast December 26th
ISBN: 978-1405974042
An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe
BBC Radio 4 book reading · broadcast December 25th
ISBN: 978-0316415811
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
BBC Radio 4 book reading · broadcast December 18th
ISBN: 978-1786892737
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson
Front Row · broadcast December 18th
ISBN: 978-0241987834
How To Make The World Add Up by Tim Harford
Book of the Week · broadcast December 12th
ISBN: 978-1408712245
Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
Bookclub · broadcast December 6th
ISBN: 978-1558496729
The Boundless Sea by David Abulafia
Book of the Week · broadcast December 5th
ISBN: 978-0241956274
My American by Stella Gibbons
BBC Radio 4 book reading · broadcast December 4th
Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy
A Good Read · broadcast December 1st
ISBN: 978-1806985005
Red April by Santiago Roncagliolo
A Good Read · broadcast December 1st
ISBN: 978-8466369305
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
A Good Read · broadcast December 1st
ISBN: 978-0141185064