This segment originally aired live on November 25, 2014. An edited version was included in a best-of episode of The Brian Lehrer Show on January 2, 2015. The unedited audio can be found here. 

As patrons nominate their libraries for the NYC Neighborhood Library Awards, The Brian Lehrer Show talks to writers about "Books That Changed My Mind." Today: Azar Nafisi, a fellow at John Hopkins University and the author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books (Viking, 2014) and Jacqueline Woodson, a judge in the NYC Neighborhood Library Awards, author of many young adult books and a 2014 National Book Award for Brown Girl Dreaming (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin, 2014).