Writer's choice: the links
The writer's choice series features writers writing about books. Below is a list of the pieces that appeared during the first year of the series, with the links to them. The list for the second year is here, and that for the third year here.
David Aaronovitch on some of the books in his life
Jeff Abramowitz on the Flashman books - and other books
David R. Adler on Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Andrew Anthony on The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Carlene Bauer on The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Sarah Baxter on An Empire of Wealth by John Steele Gordon
Andrew Bolt on the idea of a 'favourite' book
Pamela Bone on Saturday by Ian McEwan
Nick Cohen on Terror and Liberalism by Paul Berman
Clive Davis on Spandau: The Secret Diaries by Albert Speer
Jean Bethke Elshtain on Czeslaw Milosz
Jon Fasman on The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
Katie Fforde on Electricity by Victoria Glendinning
Anne Fine on Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew by Bernard Hare, and Stuart: a life backwards by Alexander Masters
Jonathan Freedland on In the Land of Israel by Amos Oz
Terry Glavin on The Parable of The Beast by John Bleibtreu
Linda Grant on The Romance of American Communism by Vivian Gornick
Ramachandra Guha on Football in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano
Gideon Haigh on Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
Sophie Hannah on The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
Choman Hardi on The City of White Musicians by Bachtyar Ali
Susan Hill on Hotel Savoy by Joseph Roth
Christopher Hitchens on How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
Doug Ireland on the work of Michel Onfray
Wendy James on Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Morag Joss on Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Anthony Julius on Human Society in Ethics and Politics by Bertrand Russell
Oliver Kamm on the novels of P.D. James
Matthew Kramer on Abraham Lincoln: A Documentary Portrait (Don Fehrenbacher ed.)
Adam LeBor on Dark Star by Alan Furst
John Lloyd on Life and Fate by Vassily Grossman
Val McDermid on books that have influenced her
Mark Mason on Rain Men by Marcus Berkmann
Alex Massie on Game Time: A Baseball Companion by Roger Angell
Sophie Masson on The Seven Crystal Balls / Prisoners of the Sun by Hergé
John Mole on The Diaries of William Allingham
Linda Newbery on Nature Cure by Richard Mabey
Sally Prue on The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Philip Pullman on the novels of MacDonald Harris
Dina Rabinovitch on Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer and History by James S. Olson
Jane Rogers on In a Summer Season and Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
Kellie Strøm on Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad - and stories of the sea
Jane Sullivan on Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
Jennifer Szalai on Philosophy in a New Key by Susanne K. Langer
George Szirtes on Soul by Andrey Platonov
Andrew Taylor on Armadale and No Name by Wilkie Collins
Jean Ure on Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist by Alexander Berkman, and Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Minette Walters on King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard, and Dracula by Bram Stoker
Michael Walzer on The Company You Keep by Neil Gordon
Francis Wheen on Capital by Karl Marx
Jacqueline Wilson on 'The Doll's House' by Katherine Mansfield
Camilla Wright on 'Justice At Night' by Martha Gellhorn
