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Kiwi director Niki Caro came to prominence with the 2002 release of her critically acclaimed “Whale Rider,” but it's in the last five years that's established herself as one of our most able directors, including Mulan, which made her only the fourth woman ever to direct a movie with a budget topping out at $100 million, and The Zookeeper's Wife (starring Jessica Chastain). Her latest project, for Netflix, is The Mother, starring Jennifer Lopez, Joseph Fiennes, Omari Hardwick, and Gael García Bernal.

Below are Niki Caro’s favorite books, available to purchase as a set or individually.
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The Zookeeper's Wife

Diane Ackerman

The extraordinary true story of an ordinary woman, a zookeeper’s wife, who saved over three hundred Jewish refugees by smuggling them out of the Warsaw ghetto and concealing them in the cages of her zoo, and the basement of the zoo’s villa. Truly inspiring and increasingly relevant in these political times.

9

Blood, Bones & Butter

Gabrielle Hamilton

Because reading about food is somehow almost as good as actually eating it. Because of the author’s honesty, her grit, her bluntness and her respect for sheer hard work. Also for her sensitivity and sensuality. Because I worked in restaurant kitchens for a decade, and because her story and mine have way too many similarities.

8

The Bone People

Keri Hulme

New Zealand’s greatest novel and the one book that will transport me instantly home. Three disparate characters come together to form a fragile and unlikely family; their need to connect at odds with their fear of attachment. One of those books that wipes you out, no matter how many times you read it.
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Asif Kapadia
From: $139.90
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Patrick Suskind
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Robert Longo
$180.92
The Painted Bird

Jerzy Kosinski
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John Cameron Mitchell
$145.82
The Subtle Knife

Phillip Pullman
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Gia Coppola
$166.00
The Far Side of the Dollar

Ross Macdonald
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John Waters
$264.85
Good Morning, Midnight

Jean Rhys
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Miranda July
$300.80
Birds of America

Lorrie Moore