Pair #1: Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens and Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
Pair #2 The Professor by Charlotte Bronte and The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell
Pair #3: This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda: A Biography by Nancy Milford
Pair #4: The Queen of Last Hopes: The Story of Margaret of Anjou by Susan Higginbotham and The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir
Pair #5: Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks and London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
Pair #6: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie and The Poisoners Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
Pair #7: Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford and The Sisters: The Saga of the Miford Family by Mary S. Lovell
Pair #8: The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch and Iris Murdoch: A Life by Peter J. Conradi
Pair #9: Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George and The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty by G.J. Meyers
Pair #10: Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins and Wild Romance: A Victorian Story of a Marriage, a Trial, and a Self-Made Woman by Chole Schama
Pair #11: All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West and The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
Pair #12: The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf and Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
Pair #13: Richard III by William Shakespeare and Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages 1337-1485 by John Julius Norwich
