Comedian Sarah Keyworth and author Lissa Evans talk about books they love with Harriett Gilbert. Sarah chooses Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed, Lissa picks Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks and Harriett shines a light on Lady into Fox by David Garnett.

Actors Fiona Shaw and Nicola Coughlan join Harriett Gilbert to talk books. Nicola's choice is The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson, Harriett recommends In a Lonely Place by Dorothy M Hughes and Fiona chooses Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion. Producer Sally Heaven

Actor Nina Sosanya and writer David Nicholls share their favourite books with Harriett. Nina chooses The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark is David's favourite. Harriett picks Beneath the Streets by Adam Macqueen, a thriller which asks: what if Jeremy Thorpe's hired thugs had been successful? Producer Sally Heaven

American avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson and radio DJ and writer Stuart Maconie talk about favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. Laurie chooses Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson. Stuart picks Sleep No More: Railway, Canal and Other Stories of the Supernatural by L.T.C. Rolt, one of the men who saved Britain's inland waterways, and Harriett introduces them to Me Cheeta: The Autobiography by James Lever: the first book on A Good Read to have been "written" by a chimpanzee.

Crime writer Val McDermid and businesswoman Martha Lane Fox talk to Harriett Gilbert about books they really love. Val's choice is This Is Shakespeare: How to Read the World's Greatest Playwright by Emma Smith, Martha's is How to be Both by Ali Smith and Harriett's is The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton.

Actresses and friends Pippa Haywood (Greenwing, The Bodyguard) and Felicity Montagu (Alan Partridge) talk about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. They are: The Salt Path by Raynor Winn, Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton, and Ethel & Ernest by Raymond Briggs. They may be old friends, but do they have the same taste in books?

The two founders of Black Girls Book Club, Natalie Carter and Melissa Cummings-Quarry, talk about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. They are: The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, and Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Three strong female protagonists spanning three different eras...

Follow us on Instagram @agoodreadbbc to share your thoughts. Producer: Becky Ripley.

Nazir Afzal prosecuted dozens of men responsible for grooming young girls during his time as head of the CPS in the North West of England. His role was dramatised in BBC1's harrowing Three Girls series which told the story of three teenage girls who were abused by a gang of Asian men. He is a strong advocate for women and his choice of book reflects this. It's the late journalist Sue Lloyd Roberts' The War on Women.

THE WAR ON WOMEN By Sue Lloyd Roberts

Producer: Maggie Ayre

Comedians Helen Lederer and Angela Barnes and presenter Harriett Gilbert discuss books by David Nicholls, Alan Taylor and Anna Funder.

The Understudy by David Nicholls

Appointment in Arezzo by Alan Taylor

Stasiland by Anna Funder

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2020.

Texas frontwoman Sharleen Spiteri and comedian Hugh Dennis join Harriett Gilbert to discuss books by Renee Knight, Peter Ackroyd and Caitlin Moran.

The Secretary by Renee Knight

Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd

How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2020.