Ten years of 10 Great Books
2014
| Author | Text | Presenter |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Emile, or On Education (1762) | Peter McPhee |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | The Prince (1532) | Glyn Davis |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales (1387) | Stephanie Trigg |
| Emily Brontë | Wuthering Heights (1847) | Deirdre Coleman |
| John Stuart Mill | Utilitarianism (1861) | Peter Singer |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) | Greg Restall |
| Sappho | Sappho, Fragments (630 BCE - 570 BCE) | Germaine Greer |
| Toni Morrison | Beloved (1987) | Clara Tuite |
| Germaine Greer | The Female Eunuch (1970) | Marilyn Lake |
| Thomas Hobbes | Leviathan (1651) | Mark Considine |
2015
| Author | Text | Presenter |
| Karl Marx | Das Kapital (1867) | Peter McPhee |
| James Joyce | Dubliners (1914) | Gillian Russell |
| Lord Alfred Tennyson | Ulysses (1842) | Glyn Davis |
| Virginia Woolf | To the Lighthouse (1927) | Stephanie Trigg |
| William Blake | The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790) | Peter Otto |
| Bill Gammage | The Biggest Estate on Earth (2011) | Marcia Langton |
| George Elliot | Middlemarch (1871) | Deirdre Coleman |
| William Shakespeare | King Lear (1608) | David McInnis |
| George Orwell | Coming Up for Air (1939) | Lindsay Tanner |
| Christina Stead | The Man Who Loved Children (1940) | Louise Adler |
2016
| Author | Text | Presenter |
| The 'Pearl Poet' | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (c. 14th Century) | Stephanie Trigg |
| John Maynard Keynes | The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) | Robert Johanson |
| W.B. Yeats | Easter (1916) | Glyn Davis |
| Michel de Montaigne | Essays (1580) | Veronique Duche |
| - | The Constitution of the United States of America (1788) | Timothy Lynch |
| Sigmund Freud | The Interpretation of Dreams (1913) | Joy Damousi |
| John Milton | Paradise Lost (1667) | Justin Clemens |
| Homer | Odyssey (c. 8th Century BCE) | Nikos Papastergiadis |
| Barbara Baynton | The Chosen Vessel (1896) | Jonathan Mills |
| Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre (1847) | Deirdre Coleman |
2017
| Author | Text | Presenter |
| Alain-Fournier | The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) (1913) | Peter McPhee |
| Donald Horne | The Lucky Country (1964) | Glyn Davis |
| Adam Smith | Wealth of Nations (1776) | Dan Halliday |
| Charles Darwin | On the Origin of Species (1859) | James Bradley |
| Rachel Carson | Silent Spring (1962) | Sara Wills |
| David Malouf | Johnno (1975) | Maxine McKew |
| - | Qur’an | Abdullah Saeed |
| Francesco Colonna | Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499) | Catherine Kovesi |
| Euripides | Medea (431 BCE) | Rachel Fensham |
| Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) (1958) | Mark Considine and Mark Nicholls |
2018
| Author | Text | Presenter |
| Lavinia Greenlaw | A Double Sorrow (2014) | Stephanie Trigg |
| Mary Shelley | Frankenstein (1818) | Deirdre Coleman |
| James Joyce | Ulysses (1922) | Justin Clemens |
| Patrick White | Voss (1957) | Jonathan Mills |
| Hannah Arendt | Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963) | Glyn Davis |
| William Shakespeare | The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (1599) | James Evans |
| George Orwell | Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) | Dennis Glover |
| Jonathon Swift | A Modest Proposal (1729) | Ronan McDonald |
| Bartolomé de Las Casas | A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1542) | Jenny Spinks |
| Tennessee Williams | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) | Denise Varney |
2019
| Author | Text | Presenter |
| Saint-Exupéry | The Little Prince (1943) | Peter McPhee |
| Thomas Malory | Le Morte D’Arthur (1485) | Stephanie Trigg |
| Xavier Herbert | Poor Fellow My Country (1976) | Gillian Triggs |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) | Cordelia Fine |
| Barron Field | First Fruits of Australian Poetry (1819) | Justin Clemens |
| Lord Byron | Don Juan (1819) | Clara Tuite |
| Jeannie Gunn | We of the Never Never (1905) | Katherine Ellinghaus |
| Helen Garner | The First Stone (1995) | Glyn Davis |
| Voltaire | Letters Concerning the English Nation (1733) | Russell Goulbourne |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | Democracy in America (1835) | Timothy Lynch |
2020
| Author | Text | Presenter |
| Philip Roth | American Pastoral (1997) | Maxine McKew |
| William Trevor | Fools of Fortune (1983) | Philomena Murray |
| William Shakespeare | Hamlet (1602) | David McInnis |
| Frantz Fanon | The Wretched of the Earth (1961) | Karen Farquharson |
| Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities (1859) | Peter McPhee |
| Geoffrey Blainey | The Tyranny of Distance (1966) | Tom Griffiths |
| Aristotle | The Nicomachean Ethics (c.340 BCE) | Margaret Cameron |
| Margaret Atwood | Oryx and Crake (2003) | Glyn Davis |
| Pramoedya Ananta Toer | This Earth of Mankind (1980) | Vedi Hadiz |
| Franz Kafka | The Trial (1925) | Heather Benbow |
2021
| Author | Text | Presenter |
| Oscar Wilde | The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) | Sarah Balkin |
| Ralph Ellison | Invisible Man (1952) | Sana Nakata |
| Bernard Schlink | The Reader (1995) | Alison Lewis |
| Christine de Pizan | The Book of the City of Ladies (1405) | Anne Dunlop |
| PD James | The Children of Men (1992) | Margaret Cameron |
| Cicero | On Old Age (Cato Maior de Senectute) (44 BCE) | Tim Parkin |
| Yu Hua | China in Ten Words (2010) | Anne McLaren |
| Jessica Anderson | Tirra Lirra by the River (1978) | Anna Funder |
| Joan Robinson | Economic Philosophy (1966) | Dan Halliday |
| Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary (1856) | Russell Goulbourne |
2022
| Author | Text | Presenter |
| Samuel Beckett | Waiting for Godot (1949) | Paul Rae |
| Alexis Wright | Carpentaria (2006) | Jeanine Leane |
| Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice (1813) | Clara Tuite |
| J. M. Coetzee | Disgrace (1999) | Deirdre Coleman |
| William Shakespeare | Much Ado About Nothing (1598) | David McInnis |
| Mikhail Bulgakov | The Master and Margarita (1966) | Mark Edele |
| Simone de Beauvoir | Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (1958) | Jackie Dutton |
| Euripides | Trojan Women (415 BCE) | K.O. Chong-Gossard |
| Alice Walker | The Color Purple (1982) | Kalissa Alexeyef |
| George Johnston | My Brother Jack (1964) | Sally Young |
2023
| Author | Text | Presenter |
| Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina (1878) | Stephanie Trigg |
| Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) | Tim Lynch |
| - | The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol) | Hannah Gould |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby (1925) | Sarah Churchwell |
| Kim Scott | Benang: From the Heart (1999) | Tony Birch |
| Shirley Hazzard | The Transit of Venus (1980) | Ashley Barnwell |
| Sophocles | Antigone (441 BCE) | K.O. Chong-Gossard |
| Sylvia Plath | The Bell Jar (1963) | Sarah Holland-Batt |
| David Malouf | Remembering Babylon (1993) | Robyn Eckersley |
| Miles Franklin | My Brilliant Career (1901) | Emily Bitto |