- ‘The Tobacconist’ by Peter Seethaler
- ‘Something I’ve Been Meaning To Tell You’ by Alice Munro
- ‘Reservoir 13’ by Jon McGregor
- ‘The Bedside Guardian 2017’ ed. by Gary Younge
- ‘Virginia Woolf in Manhattan’ by Maggie Gee
- ‘Chicago’ by Alaa Al Aswany
- ‘The Coward’s Tale’ by Vanessa Gebbie
- ‘My Animal Life’ by Maggie Gee
- ‘Cove’ by Cynan Jones
- ‘Trumpet’ by Jackie Kay
- ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ by George Saunders
- ‘Silver Sister’ by Lillian Ng
- ‘Rather Be The Devil’ by Ian Rankin
- ‘Why Dylan Matters’ by Richard F Thomas
- ‘The God of Small Things’ by Arundhati Roy
- ’Autumn’ by Ali Smith
- ‘The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage’ by Todd Gitlin
- ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ by Shirley Jackson
- ‘Life and Death are Wearing Me Out’ by Mo Yan (part)