- ‘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