Books Are "Proof of Our Humanity" — 7 Bestselling Authors on the Power of Literacy

Literacy can connect us beyond culture, geography, and even language. Roshani Chokshi, author of The Gilded Wolves series, said her parents passed down a love of reading through retelling myths and legends — "because stories, not language, connected us to our Filipino and Indian heritage." However, it was Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black that made her imagination "go from a flatworm of a thing to a basilisk rearing its head and hissing: ...we can do that?"