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. There is a comprehensive index for the entire series 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