Yann Martel's 6 favorite books

The author of Life of Pi and winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction shares a short list of his favorite reads

The author speaks in Seattle.
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Martel's latest book, Beatrice and Virgil, his third novel, was published last month by Spiegel & Grau. Here, Martel's personal book recommendations:

The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati (David R. Godine, $18). A sober and luminous novel about a man who waits his whole life for his life to start. You read it and then you want to run out and act.

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