| POËSIE | FIKSIE | NIE-FIKSIE |
| Loftus Marais | Ingrid Winterbach | Alain de Botton |
| Emily Berry | Marlene van Niekerk | Malcolm Gladwell |
| Billy Collins | Barbara Kingsolver | Elizabeth Gilbert |
| Jack Underwood | Jonathan Safran Foer | Cal Newport |
| Ashwin Arendse | Margaret Atwood | Sam Harris |
| Jolyn Phillips | Maggie O’Farrell | Robert McFarlane |
| Margaret Atwood | Elizabeth Strout | Michael Pollan |
| Don Paterson | George Saunders | James Nestor |
| Nick Laird | Richard Powers | Matthew Walker |
| David Whyte | Elena Ferrante | James Clear |