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Chocky
10/10 Space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock on how Chocky by John Wyndham inspired her.
The Silent Spring
9/10 Journalist Julian Pettifer on how Rachel Carson's The Silent Spring inspired him.
In the Land of Israel
8/10 Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner on Amos Oz's book In the Land of Israel.
Othello
7/10 Poet Musa Okwonga on how Shakespeare's Othello mirrored his experience of isolation.
The Smoking Diaries
6/10 Ed Smith explains how Simon Gray's The Smoking Diaries liberated him as a wordsmith.
Pride and Prejudice
5/10 Academic Mona Siddiqui explores her affection for Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
4/10 Scientist Colin Blakemore praises a lesser-known work by Charles Darwin.
The Wrench
2/10 Potter and writer Edmund de Waal explains how Primo Levi's book The Wrench inspired him.
Homage to Catalonia
1/10 Alan Johnston explains how Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell inspired him.
