Books on BBC Radio 4 › June 2017
Every book featured on BBC Radio 4's book strands during June 2017 — 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 · 16 books listed for June 2017.
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Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
A Good Read · broadcast June 27th
ISBN: 978-1838952235
The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth
Front Row · broadcast June 22nd
ISBN: 978-1848426382
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Front Row · broadcast June 21st
ISBN: 978-0099740919
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson
A Good Read · broadcast June 20th
ISBN: 978-0670126354
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
A Good Read · broadcast June 20th
A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman
Front Row · broadcast June 15th
ISBN: 978-1784704223
Leviathan by Paul Auster
A Good Read · broadcast June 13th
ISBN: 978-0571276615
Black and Blue: How Racism, Drugs and Cancer Almost Destroyed Me by Paul Canoville
A Good Read · broadcast June 13th
ISBN: 978-0755316458
I'll Sell You A Dog by Juan Pablo Villalobos
A Good Read · broadcast June 13th
ISBN: 978-1908276742
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
BBC Radio 4 book reading · broadcast June 10th
ISBN: 978-0141439501
Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
A Good Read · broadcast June 6th
ISBN: 978-0349108858
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
A Good Read · broadcast June 6th
ISBN: 978-0141181424
The Seven Good Years by Etgar Keret
A Good Read · broadcast June 6th
ISBN: 978-1783780464
Gods Without Men by Hari Kunzru
Bookclub · broadcast June 4th
ISBN: 978-0141020211
Anatomy of a Suicide by Alice Birch
Front Row · broadcast June 2nd
ISBN: 978-1350200777
Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
Front Row · broadcast June 1st
ISBN: 978-1511758048