| Author | Title | Foreword writer | ||
| Pietro Aretino | The School of Whoredom | Paul Bailey | ||
| Pietro Aretino | The Secret Life of Nuns | |||
| Jane Austen | Lesley Castle | Zoë Heller | ||
| Jane Austen | Love and Friendship | Fay Weldon | ||
| Honoré de Balzac | Colonel Chabert | A.N. Wilson | ||
| Charles Baudelaire | On Wine and Hashish | Margaret Drabble | ||
| Giovanni Boccaccio | Life of Dante | A.N. Wilson | ||
| Charlotte Brontë | The Spell | |||
| Emily Brontë | Poems of Solitude | Helen Dunmore | ||
| Mikhail Bulgakov | Fatal Eggs | Doris Lessing | ||
| Mikhail Bulgakov | The Heart of a Dog | A.S. Byatt | ||
| Giacomo Casanova | The Duel | Tim Parks | ||
| Miguel de Cervantes | The Dialogue of the Dogs | Ben Okri | ||
| Geoffrey Chaucer | The Parliament of Birds | |||
| Anton Chekhov | The Story of a Nobody | Louis de Bernières | ||
| Anton Chekhov | Three Years | William Fiennes | ||
| Wilkie Collins | The Frozen Deep | |||
| Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness | A.N. Wilson | ||
| Joseph Conrad | The Return | Colm Tóibín | ||
| Gabriele D’Annunzio | The Book of the Virgins | Tim Parks | ||
| Dante Alighieri | The Divine Comedy: Inferno | |||
| Dante Alighieri | New Life | Louis de Bernières | ||
| Daniel Defoe | The King of Pirates | Peter Ackroyd | ||
| Marquis de Sade | Incest | Janet Street-Porter | ||
| Charles Dickens | The Haunted House | Peter Ackroyd | ||
| Charles Dickens | A House to Let | |||
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Double | Jeremy Dyson | ||
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | Poor People | Charlotte Hobson | ||
| Alexandre Dumas | One Thousand and One Ghosts | |||
| George Eliot | Amos Barton | Matthew Sweet | ||
| Henry Fielding | Jonathan Wild the Great | Peter Ackroyd | ||
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Popular Girl | Helen Dunmore | ||
| Gustave Flaubert | Memoirs of a Madman | Germaine Greer | ||
| Ugo Foscolo | Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis | Valerio Massimo Manfredi | ||
| Elizabeth Gaskell | Lois the Witch | Jenny Uglow | ||
| Théophile Gautier | The Jinx | Gilbert Adair | ||
| André Gide | Theseus | |||
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The Man of Fifty | A.S. Byatt | ||
| Nikolai Gogol | The Squabble | Patrick McCabe | ||
| E.T.A. Hoffmann | Mademoiselle de Scudéri | Gilbert Adair | ||
| Victor Hugo | The Last Day of a Condemned Man | Libby Purves | ||
| Joris-Karl Huysmans | With the Flow | Simon Callow | ||
| Henry James | In the Cage | Libby Purves | ||
| Franz Kafka | Metamorphosis | Martin Jarvis | ||
| Franz Kafka | The Trial | Zadie Smith | ||
| John Keats | Fugitive Poems | Andrew Motion | ||
| Heinrich von Kleist | The Marquise of O– | Andrew Miller | ||
| Mikhail Lermontov | A Hero of Our Time | Doris Lessing | ||
| Nikolai Leskov | Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk | Gilbert Adair | ||
| Carlo Levi | Words are Stones | Anita Desai | ||
| Xavier de Maistre | A Journey Around my Room | Alain de Botton | ||
| André Malraux | The Way of the Kings | Rachel Seiffert | ||
| Katherine Mansfield | Prelude | William Boyd | ||
| Edgar Lee Masters | Spoon River Anthology | Shena Mackay | ||
| Guy de Maupassant | Butterball | Germaine Greer | ||
| Prosper Mérimée | Carmen | Philip Pullman | ||
| Sir Thomas More | The History of | Sister Wendy Beckett | ||
| King Richard III | ||||
| Sándor Petofi | John the Valiant | George Szirtes | ||
| Francis Petrarch | My Secret Book | Germaine Greer | ||
| Luigi Pirandello | Loveless Love | |||
| Edgar Allan Poe | Eureka | Sir Patrick Moore | ||
| Alexander Pope | The Rape of the Lock and A Key to the Lock | Peter Ackroyd | ||
| Antoine-François Prévost | Manon Lescaut | Germaine Greer | ||
| Marcel Proust | Pleasures and Days | A.N. Wilson | ||
| Alexander Pushkin | Dubrovsky | Patrick Neate | ||
| Alexander Pushkin | Ruslan and Lyudmila | Colm Tóibín | ||
| François Rabelais | Pantagruel | Paul Bailey | ||
| François Rabelais | Gargantua | Paul Bailey | ||
| Christina Rossetti | Commonplace | Andrew Motion | ||
| George Sand | The Devil’s Pool | Victoria Glendinning | ||
| Jean-Paul Sartre | The Wall | Justin Cartwright | ||
| Friedrich von Schiller | The Ghost-seer | Martin Jarvis | ||
| Mary Shelley | Transformation | |||
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | Zastrozzi | Germaine Greer | ||
| Stendhal | Memoirs of an Egotist | Doris Lessing | ||
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Helen Dunmore | ||
| Theodor Storm | The Lake of the Bees | Alan Sillitoe | ||
| Leo Tolstoy | The Death of Ivan Ilych | |||
| Leo Tolstoy | Hadji Murat | Colm Tóibín | ||
| Ivan Turgenev | Faust | Simon Callow | ||
| Mark Twain | The Diary of Adam and Eve | John Updike | ||
| Mark Twain | Tom Sawyer, Detective | |||
| Oscar Wilde | The Portrait of Mr W.H. | Peter Ackroyd | ||
| Virginia Woolf | Carlyle’s House and Other Sketches | Doris Lessing | ||
| Virginia Woolf | Monday or Tuesday | Scarlett Thomas | ||
| Emile Zola | For a Night of Love | A.N. Wilson |