Writer's choice: the links 2

The writer's choice series features writers writing about books. Below is a list of the pieces that appeared during the second year of the series, with the links to them. The list for the first year is here, and that for the third year here.

Debi Alper on The Bridge of Beyond by Simone Schwarz-Bart

Michael Atherton on A Journalist's Odyssey by Patrick O'Donovan

Elizabeth Baines on Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Martyn Bedford on On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Ophelia Benson on Emma by Jane Austen

Geraldine Brennan on The Beggar Maid (or Who Do You Think You Are?) by Alice Munro

Julie Burchill on The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe

Bryan Charles on Masters of Atlantis by Charles Portis

J. B. Cheaney on Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Nicholas Clee on Simple French Food by Richard Olney

Amanda Craig on Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky

Jules Crittenden on The Battle by Alessandro Barbero

Stan Denham on To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Ursula Dubosarsky on They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy

Clare Dudman on Wild Boy by Jill Dawson

Allen Esterson on Into the Whirlwind by Evgenia S. Ginzburg (and The Invincible by Stanislav Lem)

Daniel Finkelstein on Ramsay MacDonald by David Marquand

Adèle Geras on Time Will Darken It by William Maxwell

Linda Gillard on The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett

Debra Hamel on The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

Sophie Hannah on Wendy Cope

Kate Harrison on A Kind of Loving, The Watchers on the Shore and The Right True End by Stan Barstow

John Harvey on books that have influenced him

Dave Hill on Farewell My Lovely and Raymond Chandler

Jane Hill on Democracy by Joan Didion

Alison Hoblyn on books that have left their mark on her

Anthony Horowitz on David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Dan Jacobson on Crabwalk by Gunter Grass

Nicolette Jones on Middlemarch by George Eliot

Martin Kettle on Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin

Kate Long on Red Shift by Alan Garner

Paul Magrs on Steps out of Time by Eric Houghton

Peter Mair on That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern

Linda Mann on the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett

Sophie Masson on Agatha Christie

Livi Michael on A Scots Quair by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Margaret Murphy on The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood

Marie Phillips on Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

John Punshon on Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts

Celia Rees on The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

Michael Schmidt on Foxe's Book of Martyrs

Chris Simms on 'Oh, whistle and I'll come to you, my lad' by M.R. James

Chris Smith on The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

Anne Stott on Emma by Jane Austen

Gadi Taub on Damon Runyon

Ann Turnbull on The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter

Mark Vernon on the Symposium by Plato

Jeffrey Wainwright on The Owl of Minerva: A Memoir by Mary Midgley

Joanna Walsh on Babar the King by Jean de Brunhoff

Robert Westfield on Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Frank Wilson on Literature and Western Man by J.B. Priestley

Janet Wolff on The New House by Lettice Cooper