Like totems, we pass them on to our own children, each book a spell in itself. But there isn’t room in this list for everything ... popular imagination. 14. Matilda by Roald Dahl (1988) I ...

I think Matilda showed me reading has the power to heal; and that sharing books, whether in my parents always giving in to my insatiable appetite for more novels, or in passing those I’d read on ...