| 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 | Mgaret 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 King Richard III | Sister Wendy Beckett |
| 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 |