Series One

1. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (with Enrico Terrinoni)^[3]

2. Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor (with Alison Arant)^[4]

3. Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth (with David Morrell)^[5]

4. Heartland by Wilson Harris (with Michael Mitchell)^[6]

5. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (with Simon Malpas)^[7]

6. The Bell by Iris Murdoch (with Avril Horner)^[8]

7. A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul (with Will Ghosh)^[9]

8. Party Going by Henry Green (with Marius Hentea)^[10]

9. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe (with James Walker)^[11]

Series Two

1. Goldfinger by Ian Fleming (with Kim Sherwood)^[12]

2. The Unlimited Dream Company by J.G. Ballard (with David Ian Paddy)^[13]

3. Nineteen-Eighty Four by George Orwell (with John Bowen)^[14]

4. The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen (with Jessica Gildersleeve)^[15]

5. Pavane by Keith Roberts (with Glyn Morgan)^[16]

6. The Girls of Slender Means and The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark (with Alan Taylor)^[17]

7. Bomber by Len Deighton (with Rob Mallows)^[18]

8. For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (with Mary Dearborn)^[19]

9. The Spire by William Golding (with Tim Kendall)^[20]

10. The Once and Future King by T.H. White (with Elizabeth Elliott)^[21]

Series Three

1. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (with Barbara Cooke)^[22]

2. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry (with Michael Schmidt)^[23]

3. The Long Good-bye by Raymond Chandler (with Tom Williams)^[24]

4. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (with Katherine Bucknell)^[25]

5. Falstaff by Robert Nye (with Rob Spence)^[26]

6. The Aerodrome by Rex Warner (with Joseph Darlington)^[27]

7. A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell (with Nicholas Birns)^[28]

8. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (with Sterling L. Bland Jr.)^[29]

9. Lanark by Alasdair Gray (with Rodge Glass)^[30]