MJ Hyland recommends ‘The Overcoat’ & ‘Creatures of the Earth’

Gregory Norminton recommends ‘First Love’ & ‘The Tipping Point’

Felicity Skelton recommends ‘Reunion’ & ‘Miles City, Montana’

Sanneke van Hassel recommends ‘Two Old People’ & ‘Misha’

Cathy Galvin recommends ‘William Burns’ & ‘Sleep’

Nicholas Royle recommends ‘Murder’ & ‘When the Door Closed, It Was Dark’

Alison MacLeod recommends ‘Revelation’ & ‘Days Necrotic’

Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer recommends ‘Dormitory’ & ‘The Adventure of a Soldier’

Maggie Gee recommends ‘Lady into Fox’ & ‘The Necessary Strength’

Loree Westron recommends ‘The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber’ & ‘What You Pawn I Will Redeem’

Ailsa Cox recommends ‘The Cat Jumps’ & ‘Dimensions’

Elizabeth Baines recommends ‘A Conversation with my Father’ & ‘The Universal Story’

Jon McGregor recommends ‘The Odour of Chrysanthemums’ ‘ & ‘Tenth of December’

KJ Orr recommends ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find’ & ‘Leopard’

Vanessa Gebbie recommends ‘The Ledge’ & ‘Robot Wasps’

Jacob Ross recommends ‘The Machine Stops’ & ‘The Boy Who Loved Ice-Cream’

Claire Massey recommends ‘Automata’ & ‘Egnaro’

Andy Murray recommends ‘You’re Too Hip, Baby’ & ‘Hob’s Hog’

Tania Hershman recommends ‘The Leaf-Sweeper’ & ‘God’s Gift’

Sarah Schofield recommends ‘Flowers For Algernon’ & ‘Winter Break’

Toby Litt recommends ‘The Beast in the Jungle’ & ‘The Stylist’

Stella Duffy recommends ‘Miss Brill’ & ‘Girl Meets Boy’

Annie Clarkson recommends ‘Little Birds’ & ‘What Is Seized’

Annie Clarkson recommends ‘Little Birds’ & ‘What Is Seized’

Daneet Steffens recommends ‘The Gift of the Magi’ & ‘The Boat’

David Constantine recommends ‘Daughters of the Vicar’ & ‘Because It Is Running By’

Ronald J. Wright recommends ‘The Monkey’s Paw’ & ‘Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?’

Chris Moss recommends ‘The Odour of Chrysanthemums’ and ‘In-Flight Entertainment’

Jim Hinks recommends ‘The Odour of Chrysanthemums’ and ‘Coming Attractions’

Adam Roberts recommends ‘Symbols and Signs’ and ‘Gene Wars’

David Vann recommends ‘Signs and Symbols’ & ‘Everything That Rises Must Converge’

Steve Dearden recommends ‘Pippi Is A Thing Searcher And Ends Up In a Fight’ & ‘Linden Trees’

Michelle Green recommends ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ & ‘Present’

Marianne Mitchelson recommends ‘The Bottle Imp’ & ‘The Snail Watcher’

Jo Brandon recommends ‘The Robber Bridegroom’ & ‘Rape Fantasies’

Will Mackie recommends ‘The Garden Party’ & ‘Mauricio “the Eye” Silva’

Beda Higgins recommends ‘The Snow Queen’ & ‘A Perfect Day For Bananafish’

Ra Page recommends ‘A Hunger Artist’ & ‘The Dead Astronaut’

Rodge Glass recommends ‘A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life’ & ‘Five Letters from an Eastern Empire’

Amanda Craig recommends ‘The Fly’ & ‘Indefinite Nights’

Emma Turnbull recommends ‘The Cat in the Rain’ & ‘The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God’

Caryl Phillips recommends ‘Let Them Call It Jazz’ & ‘The Incalculable Life Gesture’

Nicola Barker recommends ‘A Hunger Artist’ & ‘Indignities’

Bidisha recommends ‘Twenty Years’ & ‘A Grand Day’

Lili Wilkinson recommends ‘The Elephant’s Child’ & ‘Winkie’

Naomi Alderman recommends ‘The Unrest Cure’ & ‘The Horse’

Aminatta Forna recommends ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ & ‘Door In Your Eye’

Joanna Briscoe recommends ‘Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger’ & ‘Lentils and Lilies’

Tracy Chevalier recommends ‘The Necklace’ and ‘Amahl and the Night Visitors’

Zoe Lambert recommends ‘Prelude’ and ‘The Ant of the Self’

Rachel Zadok recommends ‘Mother’ and ‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Love’

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie recommends ‘The Garden Party’ & ‘How to Be an Other Woman’

Andrew Forster recommends ‘Lord Authur Saville’s Crime’ & ‘Fidelity’

Bernardine Evaristo recommends ‘What You Nearly Always Find in Novels, Stories etc.’ & ‘Rum an Coke’

Susie Wild recommends ‘Tristram and Isolde’ & ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’

Rachel Trezise recommends ‘Good Country People’ & ‘A Lonely Coast’