8 young writers share the books that shaped them into authors

Every so often, the New York Times Book Review asks writers under forty to list the books and authors that influenced them.

This year’s version marks the Book Review’s 125th anniversary (and includes one funny callback to the 2005 iteration).

See how Megha Majumdar, Tommy Orange, Alyssa Cole, Emma Cline, Yaa Gyasi, Ottessa Moshfegh, Gabriel Bump, and Andrew Martin were inspired to become authors themselves – though it may have taken some years — in the New York Times.

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