After a week's break, #BookCollection is back with a guest who has breathed literature since childhood.

Maria Prata is a journalist and fashion consultant. Her mother, Marta, is a playwright and also a journalist. Her father, Mario, is a writer. Her older brother, Antonio, has also become a published author. "I've always been the most popular person in the family," she says, showing off the literary collection she keeps in her apartment office in São Paulo.

Besides growing up in a literary environment, Maria has been married to TV presenter Pedro Bial for eleven years, with whom she has two daughters. "There's also that. I married a guy who carries books everywhere. He reads all day, eats while reading. It's crazy," she jokes.

Among the highlights of her collection are books on fashion, female icons, works on entrepreneurship, and family heirlooms.

BOOKS AND AUTHORS CITED BY MARIA PRATA:
*Captains of the Sands*, by Jorge Amado: https://link.amazon/B04WvqeZo
*The Slum*, by Aluísio Azevedo: https://link.amazon/B0aUE5VQJ
*The Empire of the Ephemeral*, by Gilles Lipovetsky: https://link.amazon/B01ju5NhX
*The Essential*, by Costanza Pascolato: https://link.amazon/B0dnC1QCF
*Fresh Fruits*, by Shoichi Aoki: https://link.amazon/B030tdNNx
*The Modernist Wardrobe*, by Carolina Casarin: https://link.amazon/B03WPj3rj
*Naked in Boots*, by Antonio Prata: https://link.amazon/B09aexMwV
*Animals and Non-Animals of Alcobaça and Anywhere*, by Laura Góes: https://link.amazon/B09QeofPQ
Prologue, Act, Epilogue (autobiography by Fernanda Montenegro with collaboration from Marta Góes): https://link.amazon/B02Rb9int
Through the Keyhole I Saw a Debutante Ball, by Mario Prata: https://link.amazon/B00nbkvbf
Pedro Bial (Brazilian journalist and writer): https://link.amazon/B05yyixuz
I, Primate, by Frans de Waal: https://link.amazon/B0dIR6WTF
Dracula, by Bram Stoker: https://link.amazon/B01edBsaO
The Immortals, by Paulliny Tort: https://link.amazon/B04qBy18M
The Anxious Generation, by Jonathan Haidt: https://link.amazon/B02KLTTAv
Matrescence, by Lucy Jones: - Rita Lee: an autobiography: https://link.amazon/B0cjEtWF1
The Drunkard's Walk, by Leonard Mlodinow: https://link.amazon/B06TAsjs8
Subliminal: How the Unconscious Influences Our Lives, by Leonard Mlodinow: https://link.amazon/B03SBsYoV
Just Kids, by Patti Smith: https://link.amazon/B0eO2kSys
Angel's Bread, by Patti Smith: https://link.amazon/B0dt1vKEK
Susan Sontag: the complete interview for Rolling Stone magazine, by Jonathan Cott: https://link.amazon/B0bbDJ5ow
On Photography, by Susan Sontag: https://link.amazon/B06Y7OmyE
Simone de Beauvoir (French philosopher): https://link.amazon/B0bGwixx0
Milly Lacombe (journalist): https://link.amazon/B01La6X3s
Innovation and Entrepreneurship, by Peter Drucker: https://link.amazon/B05wC0laV
Shoe Dog, by Phil Knight: https://link.amazon/B0huL8nPQ
Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson: https://link.amazon/B0g98K28u
The Pediatrician, by Andrea del Fuego: https://link.amazon/B0cArbDjK
Harry Potter (book series by J.K. Rowling): https://link.amazon/B03T0sEQO

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