• ‘The Sense of an Ending’ by Julian Barnes
  • ‘The Impossible Dead’ by Ian Rankin
  • ‘Wonder Boys’ by Michael Chabon (part)
  • ‘The Art of Fiction’ by David Lodge
  • ‘One Day’ by David Nichols
  • ‘Waterland’; by Graham Swift
  • ‘Stop What You’re Doing and Read This’ by Mark Haddon & Michael Rosen
  • ‘Heart of Darkness’ by Joseph Conrad
  • ‘Out of Sheer Rage’ by Geoff Dyer
  • ‘A Visit from the Goon Squad’ by Jennifer Egan
  • ‘Howard’s End is on the Landing’ by Susan Hill
  • ‘The Go-Between’ by L. P. Hartley
  • ‘Sightlines’ by Kathleen Jamie (part)
  • The Return of the Native’ by Thomas Hardy
  • ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ by Ken Kesey
  • ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’ by Harper Lee
  • ‘Crow Lake’ by Mary Lawson
  • ‘Wish You Were Here’ by Graham Swift
  • ‘The Child that Books Built’ by Francis Spufford
  • ‘When God Was a Rabbit’ by Sarah Windham