Probably every single one I ever read, in some way. I read a lot as a kid, like all writers. I remember my school librarian, in grade four, not letting me take a book out of the big kids side of the room. She was really nasty about it too, but it was something I really wanted to read. I have to assume they didn’t carry any x-rated material there, so it couldn’t have been anything too racey. That seems to me a tragedy, to stop a kid from reading a book just because it might be too hard. I love the classics, the Bronte sisters, Jane Austen, Hardy, Dickens–all that 19th century stuff. I still read it, when I feel I really need to get away from this world. I also love good mysteries. I love books set in India, I don’t know why. I always have, ever since I saw a beautiful version of Passage to India at a bookstore when I was kid and begged my mother for it. I also really like to read non-fiction about all sorts of things, from science to politics. I find that if I read a lot, it inspires me. I included a lot about the Roma in Strange Beauty because I read a fantastic study about the Roma, by a woman who traveled through eastern Europe for years and lived with them. Other books have given me ideas for what sorts of interests my characters can have, like geology.