For as long as she can remember, Susan Orlean has had a favorite book, "The Sound and the

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The Sound and the Fury (Third Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

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Philip Pullman — author of the fantasy classic "His Dark Materials" — is clearly attuned to the imaginative world of children. In fact, he was a middle school English teacher before he became a best-selling novelist. So maybe it’s not surprising that the book that exerted such a pull on his own imagination was "The Pocket Atlas of the World," which he first encountered at the age of nine.

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Pocket World Atlas

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Interview: Why Philip Pullman Is Obsessed With Panpsychism—Interview: 'His Dark Materials' Author Philip Pullman On The Consciousness Of All Things

Why does Philip Pullman love maps? How does Petina Gappah see Jane Austen as African? What science fiction stories did a young Karl Ove Knausgaard read before bed? 

Bookmarks, season 2. Coming March 13.

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The next season of Bookmarks starts on March 13. In the meantime, we wanted to share a few stories we've heard from listeners about the books that have shaped them.

Have your own story to share? Email us at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at the bottom of the page at ttbook.org/bookmarks.

"On Immunity: An Inoculation" author Eula Biss recommends a memoir in which author Maggie Nelson asks questions that bend conventions about gender, sexuality, motherhood, family and identity itself.

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The Argonauts

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Interview: The Ethics of Vaccines

Paul Beatty, the Booker Prize Winning Author of "The Sellout" recommends "The Nazi and the

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The Nazi and the Barber

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Interview: Daring to Offend: Paul Beatty's Brilliant Satire

Sometimes you stumble upon a book that sets you on a whole new path. For Israeli historian and philosopher Yuval Norah Harari — author of "Sapiens," "Homo Deus," and "21 Lessons for the 21st Century" — it wasn’t a novel, a memoir, or even a history book that changed his world. It was a book about chimpanzees.

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Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes

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The main character in Jeff

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Borne: A Novel

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The author of "Lincoln in the Bardo" recommends Victor Klemperer's two-volume diary that reads as

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I Will Bear Witness, Volume 1: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1933-1941

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Interview: A Haunting Story of Lincoln's Love and Loss

Writer Anne Lamott says that the children’s classic made her feel like there was room in the world for imaginative, adventurous girls who just might wear mismatched knee socks. 

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Pippi Longstocking

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