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John Carey

1. 1984 by George Orwell

2. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

3. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence

4. The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh

5. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Bonus: Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer, Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, Collected Poems by Philip Larkin, Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Rod Liddle

1. If This is a Man/The Truce by Primo Levi

2. Principia by Sir Isaac Newton

3. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

4. The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer

5. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

Roger Scruton

1. Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein

2. Revaluation by F.R. Leavis

3. Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot

4. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

5. Modern Painters and Stones of Venice, both by John Ruskin

Bryan Appleyard

1. Ikea 2008 Catalogue by Various authors

2. The Selfish Gene by Richards Dawkins

3. Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth by James Lovelock

4. Being Jordan by Katie Price

5. Gordon Ramsay Makes It Easy (with DVD)

Bonus: How to Buy a House by Phil Spencer and Kirstie Allsopp, The Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort

Waldemar Januszczak

1. Animal Farm by George Orwell.

2. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

3. Ten Little Niggers by Agatha Christie

4. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

5. Money by Martin Amis

Cosmo Landesman

1. Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud

2. The Image by Daniel J. Boorstin

3. No Logo by Naomi Klein

4. Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby

5. Style Wars by Peter York

Peter Kemp

1. 1984 by George Orwell

2. The Trial by Franz Kafka

3. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

4. Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth by James Lovelock

5. The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud

Robert Hewison

1. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

2. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

3. Look Back in Anger by John Osborne

4. The Poem "Going Going" in High Windows by Philip Larkin

5. Money by Martin Amis

Nicholas Hytner

1. The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud

2. The Trial by Franz Kafka

3. The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

4. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

5. History of Art by E. H. Gombrich

Bonus: The Common Pursuit by F. R. Leavis, The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot, Mediterranean Food by Elizabeth David, 1984/Animal Farm by George Orwell, Structure and Politics at the Accession of George III by Lewis Namier

Dominic Dromgoole

1. Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut

2. The World Turned Upside Down by Christopher Hill

3. Hiroshima by John Hersey

4. Middlemarch by George Eliot

5. On The Road by Jack Kerouac

John Cornwell

1. Sacred Causes: Religion and Politics from the European Dictators to Al Qaeda by Michael Burleigh

2. Collected Poems by W.H. Auden

3. The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth by James Lovelock

4. Disturbing the Universe by Freeman Dyson

5. Maynard Keynes by Robert Skidelsky

Hardeep Singh Kohli

1. Lanark by Alasdair Gray

2. Scotts Almanac (the original)

3. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera

4. The Shipping News by Annie E Proulx

5. Any one of the Rebus Series. Ian Rankin is a genius.

Vivienne Westwood

1. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

2. The Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

3. Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert

4. The Gods Will Have Blood by Anatole France

5. 1984 by George Orwell

Bonus: Anything by Bertrand Russell or Marcel Proust

John Gray

1. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

2. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

3. The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud

4. The Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock

5. The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells

Bonus: The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard

Mary Beard

1. The Odyssey by Homer

2. 1984 by George Orwell

3. The Buildings of England by Nikolaus Pevsner

4. History of Art by E. H. Gombrich

5. The Highway Code

Simon Jenkins

1. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

2. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

3. Rural Rides by William Cobbett

4. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

5. Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Bonus: Animal Farm by George Orwell, Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Tradition edited by Eric Hobsbawm, The Classical Style by Charles Rosen, Faster by James Gleick, The Buildings of England by Nikolaus Pevsner, anything by Aminatta Forna, My Beautiful Launderette by Hanif Kureishi, The Accidental by Ali Smith, By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Parallel Lines by Ian Marchant, Waterlog by Roger Deakin.

David Kynaston

1. Bleak House by Charles Dickens

2. The British Character and the World of Pont by Pont

3. Hidden Lives by Margaret Forster

4. The Farm by Richard Benson

5. Greetings from Bury Park by Sarfraz Manzoor

Dominic Sandbrook

1. The IKEA catalogue

2. The new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

3. Rothman's Football Yearbook 2007-8

4. The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud

5. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care by Benjamin Spock

Daisy Goodwin

1. Any of the Harry Potter series

2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

3. Pessimism for Beginners by Sophie Hannah

4. A Passage to India by E.M Forster

5. The Blair Years: Extracts from The Alistair Campbell Diaries

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