The writer's choice series features writers writing about books. Below is a list of the pieces that appeared during the fifth year of the series, with the links to them. There is a comprehensive index for the entire series here.
Poppy Adams on Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
A. Jay Adler on The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Anne Berkeley on Arthur Rackham's Mother Goose, and The Magic Trumpet by Mary Durack
Harry Bingham on The Spy Who Came In From The Cold by John Le Carré
Malorie Blackman on Chronicles of Wormwood by Garth Ennis
Charles Blattberg on The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Faye L. Booth on Fanny and the Monsters by Penelope Lively
David Bosco on Candide by Voltaire
Tim Bowler on Sailing Alone Around The World by Joshua Slocum
Jonathan G. Campbell on Right to Exist: A Moral Defense of Israel's Wars by Yaacov Lozowick
Victoria Connelly on The Darling Buds of May by H.E. Bates
Jenny Downham on The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
Matthew Engel on the Times guide to The House of Commons 1945
Guy Fraser-Sampson on The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
Vivian French on Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
Norman Geras on Brodeck's Report by Philippe Claudel
Heather Gudenkauf on My Ántonia by Willa Cather
Jenny Haddon on Hot Water by P.G. Wodehouse
Meg Harper on Middlemarch by George Eliot
Alis Hawkins on Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Doug Ireland on Sexual Politics in Modern Iran by Janet Afary
Jesse Kellerman on the Babylonian Talmud
Katherine Langrish on The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders by Lord Dunsany
Chris Lawson on The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Margaret Leroy on The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon
Michelle Lovric on Peregrinations of a Pariah by Flora Tristan
Yaacov Lozowick on The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It by David A. Bell, and This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
Sophie McKenzie on The Kingdom by the Sea by Robert Westall
David McNaughton on Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Clancy Martin on Vacation by Deb Olin Unferth
Rose Melikan on Count Hannibal by Stanley Weyman
Sue Mongredien on The Magus by John Fowles
George Myerson on Horace's Odes
Dominic Olivastro on Martin Gardner
Tom Palmer on Ascent and Bodies by Jed Mercurio
Gillian Philip on Fire From Heaven by Mary Renault
Nigel Rees on The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
John Rentoul on The Audacity to Win by David Plouffe, and Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Wendy Robertson on The Magus by John Fowles
Douglas Rogers on As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
Nicholas Royle on The Blindfold by Siri Hustvedt
Jessica Ruston on Lace by Shirley Conran
Susan C. Shea on Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman
John Siddique on Ulysses by James Joyce
Lee Spinks on The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Anne Stott on Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Tim Stretton on the The Book of Dreams by Jack Vance
Stephen Turner on Quiet Days in Clichy by Henry Miller
L.C. Tyler on The Torrents of Spring by Ernest Hemingway
Eleanor Updale on Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre
Aliya Whitely on Dune by Frank Herbert
Leslie Wilson on Mephisto by Klaus Mann