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Actress, comedian and author Casey Wilson takes us on a tour of her favorite reads! She shares recommendations from her own bookshelf, spanning everything from essays, novels, poetry and great reads for moms.

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00:00What have we here? It's right here. It just happened to be here. That's so crazy.

00:04Hi, this is Casey Wilson. I am here to give Marie Claire a kind of sneak peek

00:08into my personal library shelf portrait.

00:14Behind me is one of my bookshelves. We are here in a room. I've sort of made my dining room,

00:20frankly, into also a library. We have to multitask right now with our spaces.

00:25I'm an avid reader. I've also recently written a book. The Wreckage of My Presence has just come

00:32out on May 4th, and I've written a collection of comedic essays honestly inspired by some of my

00:38favorite writers who are on the shelf. One is called The Most of Nora Ephron. It's her huge essay

00:44collection, basically all the best of her work. She absolutely loves it. It's so funny. Also,

00:49I have a ton of David Sedaris books here. This is his latest book, Theft by Finding. He makes me laugh

00:57constantly, so I feel like David Sedaris and Nora Ephron are the gold standard of essay collections.

01:03I like poetry. This is Maya Angelou's book of poems. It's called Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water

01:08Before I Die. It's wonderful. This has been a well-worn copy that my mom gave me that is very close to my

01:14heart. Love this one. Here is my favorite book of fiction. It's by Anne Tyler, who's one of my

01:22all-time, all-time favorite fiction writers. She tends to write honestly about just very ordinary

01:28women, typically living in Baltimore, which sounds very specific, but she really just writes about the

01:34life of an ordinary woman, which I actually find fascinating. And this particular book is called

01:39The Amateur Marriage, and it's basically about the span of a couple from growing up together all the way

01:45through, spoiler alert, their death, but it's not a spoiler, and just kind of all the kids they have,

01:50every single thing, the life that a couple goes through. It's wonderful. A book that is so deeply funny,

01:56but also amazingly poignant and incredibly powerful, this book by a woman I'm going to call friend,

02:02and I hope she would feel the same, Nicole Byer. It's called Hashtag Very Fat, Hashtag Very Brave,

02:08and it is so good, kind of Nicole taking photos all around Los Angeles. She's wearing different

02:15glorious bathing suits and doing hilarious things, and kind of has a meaningful message about how

02:20people have said to her, like, you're so brave for basically existing in the skin that you do,

02:26and I've felt that before too, and it's about kind of body positivity, but Nicole has such an amazing

02:31sense of humor that also has kind of a component to it, which I absolutely love. Every picture is just

02:37better than the last, and the subtitle is The Fat Girl's Guide to Being Hashtag Brave and Not a

02:44Dejected Melancholy Down in the Dumps Weeping Fat Girl in a Bikini. Amazing. This is my favorite kids

02:50book that I read when I was little. It's called The Hundred Dresses that my kids are about to get old

02:56enough to read. It's kind of young adult-ish, maybe like 11 years old. Great book about empathy,

03:03about a little girl who tells her classmates that she has 100 beautiful dresses, and the girl doesn't

03:09have a ton of money, and everyone makes fun of her and says that she's lying, but when they go over to her

03:13house, they find out that she has 100 beautiful watercolors that she's done of 100 different dresses,

03:19and it really affected me. I'm about to cry thinking about it when I was younger, about keeping, kind of

03:25including people and not, I guess, not really bullying anyone and just being inclusive, so it's a great book.

03:32Last book is a parenting book. It's called The Early Riser Companion, but it says rhythms and rituals,

03:39traditions, and transitions for the first seven years of a child's life. So beautiful, and basically

03:46includes all these ideas for very small, inexpensive, beautiful rituals you can build into your family's

03:53life, and kind of building on this idea that we've lost a lot of ritual in our lives, but I have no time,

03:59no patience, no energy for anything, but this book just gives you great ideas as a mom that are free and easy.

04:06So I love The Early Riser Companion. And I'm going to shout out one last book, which is an incredible book,

04:14and it's called Girl Underwater. It is a novel. It's Young Adult by Claire Kells, who also happens to be my

04:21incredibly talented sister-in-law, and it's a young adult novel. It has intrigue. It has mystery picture,

04:27kind of a sexy lost for young adults. Truly such an amazing book, and Oprah's O Magazine online rated it.

04:36They said it was one of their best books. That's it. And what's this? I'm grabbing my own book again?

04:43And who put this here? This is crazy, guys. The Wreckage of My Presence is my book. I hope you enjoy it,

04:51and thank you so much for joining me in my home in front of my gorgeous bookcase. Thanks, Marie Claire.

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