Simon and Thomas are back, back, back. This episode sees them catching up on the reading year that was 2016 and ahead to what might lie in store in 2017.Don’t forget you can find us on Twitter, Good Reads and Facebook now as well as subscribing to us on iTunes here. You can also support The Readers if you feel like it via www.patreon.com/thereadersWe Are Back () Simon and Thomas have a chat about their absence for the last few months, why it happened and tell you a little bit about how you can support them via Patreon and heading to www.patreon.com/thereadersThe Year That Was 2016 and the Year That Will be 2017 () Thomas and Simon have a chat about the year that was 2016, the books they loved and the books they didn’t. They also have a chat about their resolutions and plans in 2017 and a whole heap of books as you can see below. They just couldn’t stop.Books Mentioned On The Readers () The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry, Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel, Being Dead by Jim Crace, The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain, The Butchers Hook by Janet Ellis, The Girls by Emma Cline, The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brien, To The Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey, A Brief History Of Seven Killings by Marlon James, The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Fell by Jenn Ashworth, The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee, The Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J Ryan Stradal, The Life of Elves by Muriel Barberry, Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift, The Girl With The Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child based on an idea by J.K. Rowling, Victoria 4.30 by Cecil Roberts, The House at the Edge of the World by Julia Rochester, At Hawthorn Time by Melissa Harrison, All Involved by Ryan Gattis, A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, The Summer Before The War by Helene Simonson, Mapp and Lucia by E.F Benson, Agatha Raisin by MC Beaton, short story collections by Carol Shields, Katherine Mansfield, the works of Helen Oyeyemi, Sarah Moss and Willa Cather, Dancing Fish and Anemones by Penelope Lively, Judgement Day by Penelope Lively, Angel Catbird by Margaret Atwood, Into The Water by Paula Hawkins, Dear Mr M by Herman Koch, The Gardens of Consolation by Parisa Reza, In The Country of Men by Hisham Matar, Damascus Nights by Rafik Schami, Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed, It Can't Happen Here and other novels by Sinclair Lewis, Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell, The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood, the works of Anita Brookner, A Poem For Every Night of the Year, Cold Earth by Sarah Moss, Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, Before the Feast by Sasa Stanisic.Next time on the Readers () The Readers will be back in two weeks when Simon and Thomas finally talk about The Sympathizer. Simon has cancelled You Wrote The Book for now but if you want to go and listen to them all you still can.Get the RSS link for the podcast by clicking here.You can subscribe to our weekly podcast on iTunes here.