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Lana Condor takes us on a tour of her bookshelf! She shares some of her favorite reads of all time, from the thrilling to the hilarious, and a few very special "To All The Boys" mementos.

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00:00If a pony only doing one trick has become synonymous with failure,

00:04perhaps we as a society have become too demanding of our ponies.

00:09Hello, Marie Claire.

00:10I am on a condor and I'm very excited to show you guys my little library.

00:21This is my little library.

00:22When I say little, it's little.

00:24But she's growing.

00:26She's becoming a woman.

00:28I recently moved to Seattle.

00:31I'm still kind of nesting, trying to figure out different furniture pieces,

00:35and also where to put them.

00:37This bookshelf is really special to me.

00:39I've had it in my family for as long as I can remember.

00:43And my parents actually gave it to me.

00:46These are my little guys.

00:49They bring me a lot of peace and joy.

00:51And this was my mom's childhood tea set that she had when she was a little girl.

00:56So she also gave that to me as a housewarming gift, which was very kind of her.

01:01So these are a collection of books that I have.

01:05I have a couple more strewn around the house,

01:08or I give some to my mom because we share books and go back and forth.

01:12So some of them aren't here, but these are kind of like some of my favorites,

01:16so I want to show you some of them.

01:17My first ones I want to show you are my To All the Boys book set.

01:24This one is the To All the Boys P.S. I Still Love You movie tie-in,

01:29which is so cool. That's my face.

01:31This one is the To All the Boys I've Loved Before, the first movie tie-in book.

01:36And then this is the P.S. I Still Love You novel edition, I guess.

01:41And a movie tie-in for To All the Boys Always and Forever, Lara Jean.

01:47That is out. I just haven't gotten a copy yet, which is crazy.

01:50The majority of my books are thrillers.

01:53And when I say majority, I mean, like, honestly, all of them are thrillers.

01:57I'm a huge thriller fan. I love thrillers. I love everything about them.

02:01They make me so happy.

02:02So you're going to see quite a few thrillers in here.

02:05This is a great one. This is called Five Total Strangers.

02:09I'd love for this to be made into a movie, and I would love to be in it.

02:14It's incredible.

02:15It's a really great thriller about these five complete strangers

02:18stuck in a car together on a snowstorm.

02:20On a snowstorm. This is The Douche Journals by Schmidt.

02:24A definitive account of one man's genius, Schmidt.

02:28Madeline Arthur, one of my best friends, she got it for me for my birthday.

02:33And it has all these great quotes from Schmidt.

02:36I'm donating my kidneys to science and my heart to fashion.

02:39This is a great little book that I oftentimes will keep in my purse when I'm traveling.

02:44It's called How to Love, and it reminds me, basically, to love.

02:49Often our pride stands in the way of our asking for help.

02:52In true love, there is no place for pride.

02:55To love each other means to trust each other.

02:57If you don't tell the person you love of your suffering,

03:01it means you don't love this person enough to trust.

03:04You have to realize that this person is the best person to help you.

03:08We need to be able to get help from the person we love.

03:11I am a big fan of Harlan Coben.

03:18He is a great kind of thriller, action writer.

03:22And my dad introduced me to him for my birthday.

03:27He got me this, Harlan Coben's The Boy from the Woods,

03:31which I believe recently came out, and it's divine.

03:34And then immediately after I finished this, I was like, Dad, this is so good.

03:38So I ran to the bookstore and got Harlan Coben's Promise Me.

03:42If you want to do like a father-daughter read, Harlan Coben.

03:45It hits deep with the father-daughters.

03:47We have like your classic A.J. Finn's, which I love.

03:50Oh, I just finished this thriller. It's awesome.

03:54It's called In Case of Emergencies by E.G. Scott.

03:58And this is so good. This is so, so good.

04:03It's about deception and, you know, doubting your reality and murder

04:09and the decay of the human brain.

04:13So if that's your thing, this is a great one.

04:16Definitely a page-tuner. Loved it a lot. It's so good.

04:19I love Anthony Horowitz. He's the author.

04:22This is called The Moonflower Murders.

04:24It's delicious. Delicious.

04:27It looks daunting, but it's a very easy read,

04:31and you just like eat it up like a snack.

04:34It's so good. And it's, I love kind of like period piece, like whodunnits.

04:41If you are a detective or you fancy yourself to have detective skills,

04:46this is the one.

04:48This is No Exit by Taylor Adams.

04:50I want to make a movie out of it so bad.

04:52It says a full-throttle thriller. Swift, sharp, and relentless.

04:57And that is the review by A.J. Finn, who I love.

05:00She did The Woman in the Window, so as soon as I saw that,

05:03I was like, I trust A.J. Let's read this book.

05:06And I was not disappointed.

05:09Calm the f**k down.

05:12It is how to control what you can and accept what you can't

05:15so you can stop freaking out and get on with your life.

05:18This is a great book.

05:20She has a bunch of really awesome books.

05:22And this is my bookmark. This is for Anthony and I.

05:27And it basically tells you how to calm the f**k down,

05:30which I need. I need desperately.

05:34We have these incredible books that are amazing.

05:40White Fragility,

05:43Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria,

05:46and Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race.

05:50These are books that have taught me a lot

05:55and shared a lot of incredible perspective.

05:58And I've learned quite a bit from these books.

06:01And they were recommended to me on pretty much all the reading lists

06:06that we were given during the Black Lives Matter movements earlier this year.

06:13So these are incredible reads. I highly, highly recommend.

06:17This, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race,

06:21is a really, really great one if you are just starting out.

06:25Like, okay, I want to learn and I want to be better.

06:29I want a piece of literature that can help me.

06:31It's educational, fun to read, well-researched,

06:35but doesn't feel, like, wildly daunting.

06:39This is a great one to start with.

06:41One of my favorite books, The Murder of Harriet Monkton.

06:44It's a whodunit, but in, like, old Victorian times.

06:50It's shocking to read because it's shocking to see

06:53the way that females were treated

06:57back then, which was horribly.

07:01So this one's a good one to read to see how far we've come.

07:06I, of course, have The Rise of Kiyoshi.

07:11I love Kiyoshi. I love her.

07:14So I have, like, all my collections of the Deadly Class graphic novels.

07:18I also have one in the big book.

07:21This is a television show that I did a couple years back

07:25based off of the graphic novels.

07:27The illustrations are incredible.

07:29I highly suggest if you like really, really dark, dark graphic novels,

07:33this one is the one for you.

07:35And I guess the last one that I'll show you,

07:37which isn't really a book, but it's a scrapbook,

07:40is my makeup artist on To All the Boys PS I Still Love You

07:45made a scrapbook for me as my wrap gift.

07:48And it's really, like, it's kind of my prized possession.

07:52There's a lot of, like, behind-the-scenes pictures,

07:55cast and crew writing notes,

07:57me and my makeup artist sleeping wherever we could.

08:02Oh, this is a big letter the crew wrote and signed.

08:08This is Noah. He wrote me a letter.

08:12It's very special.

08:13So this is definitely, like, one of my most prized possessions

08:18is my To All the Boys PS I Still Love You scrapbook.

08:22I'll share one more.

08:24This is The Good Mood Diet, and this was written by my father, Bob Condor.

08:30He wrote this book a while back, and it's called The Good Mood Diet.

08:33It's about a diet that helps you have a good mood,

08:37and it's not about taking things away,

08:39but adding things like joy to my amazing darling daughter

08:43who always puts me in a good mood.

08:46I love you fiercely, Daddy.

08:49So these are just a couple of my absolute favorites

08:54in my little tiny library.

08:56I just love collecting books.

08:58I'm going to find my Ruth Ware series from my mother and be like,

09:02Mom, these are my friends.

09:05Thank you so much Marie Claire, and until next time,

09:09happy reading!

09:11The Good Mood Diet

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