The writer's choice series features writers writing about books. Below is a list of the pieces that appeared during the third year of the series, with the links to them. There is a comprehensive index for the entire series here.
Julian Baggini on The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
John Baker on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Julie Bertagna on The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Philip Bounds on Hold Everything Dear by John Berger
Sarah Bower on The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Martin Bright with some readings on religion
Anita Burgh on Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Anne Cassidy on The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Frank Cottrell Boyce on The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
Emma Darwin on Possession by A.S. Byatt
Jenny Davidson on Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
Harriet Devine on The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
Vanessa Gebbie on Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
Susanne Gervay on The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
Cassandra Golds on Down in the Cellar by Nicholas Stuart Gray
Linda Grant on The Consolation of The Shoes by Manolo the Shoeblogger
Gideon Haigh on On The Beach by Nevil Shute
Richard Harland on Monster Blood Tattoo - Book One: Foundling by D.M. Cornish
Jeffrey Herf on The Passing of an Illusion by François Furet
Peter Hitchens on The Book of Common Prayer
David Howell on Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Simon Humphreys on Waterland by Graham Swift
Ian Irvine on books that have been important to him
Joanne Jacobs on books and wardrobes
Harvey J. Kaye on Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Jean Kazez on Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Simon Kuper on Any Human Heart by William Boyd
Walter Laqueur on Fontamara by Ignazio Silone
Stephen Law on The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Olivia Lichtenstein on Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
L. Lee Lowe on The Incentive of the Maggot by Ron Slate
Karen Maitland on The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Andrei Markovits on Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
Nicola Morgan on The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
Steve Mosby on The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
Barbara Oakley on Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Peter Oborne on Somerset Maugham
Sally Prue on Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Felicity Pulman on books she has loved
Gideon Rachman on Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Danny Rhodes on Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver
Meg Rosoff on Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Rosie Rushton on Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Greg Stekelman on the difficulty of naming important books
Anne Stott on Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Matthew Thompson on Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Rosy Thornton on North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Karen Tintori on The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffeneger
Nigel Warburton on The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia by Bernard Suits
John Williams on The Brothers K by David James Duncan
Frances Wilson on Persuasion by Jane Austen
Angela Young on After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell