| Jane Austen | Emma [Oxford, 2003] |
| Persuasion [OUP, 1998] | |
| Pride and Prejudice [Penguin, 1995] | |
| Maeve Binchy | Heart and Soul [Orion, 2008] |
| Light a Penny Candle [Century, 1982] | |
| Amanda Brunker | Champagne kisses [Transworld Ireland, 2008] |
| A.S Byatt | Possession [Chatto & Windus, 1990] |
| Josephine Cox | Songbird [HarperCollins, 2008] |
| Cholderlos de Laclos | Les Liaisons Dangereuses [Penguin, c1961] |
| Marguerite Duras | The Lover [Collins, 1985] |
| Sebastian Faulks | Human Traces [Hutchinson, 2005] |
| Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary [Penguin, 2003] |
| John Fowles | The French Lieutenant’s Woman [Vintage, 2005] |
| Cathy Kelly | Lessons in Heartbreak [HarperCollins, 2008] |
| Marian Keyes | This Charming Man [Michael Joseph, 2008] |
| Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the Wind [Pan, 1998] |
| Mairéad O’Driscoll | Where the Heart is [Poolbeg, 2008] |
| Michael Ondaatje | The English Patient [Bloomsbury, 1992] |
| Boris Pasternak | Dr. Zhivago [Collins & Harvill, 1958] |
| Carme Riera | In the Last Blue [Overlook, 2007] |
| Salman Rushdie | Shalimar the Clown [Jonathan Cape, 2005] |
| Diana Setterfield | The Thirteenth Tale [Vintage, 2002] |
| Nicholas Sparks | The Notebook [Doubleday, 1996] |
| Rosie Thomas | Iris and Ruby [HarperCollins, 2006] |
| L.N Tolstoy | Anna Karenina [Penguin, 2003] |
| Maruja Torres | Desperately seeking Julio [Fourth Estate, 1991] |
| Robert J Waller | The Bridges of Madison County [Mandarin, 1993] |
| Carlos Ruiz Zafon | The Shadow of the Wind |