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\nBrittany Snow revealed her most cherished reads \u2014\u00a0most of which helped her through hard moments in her lifeThe Hunting Wives actress tends towards nonfiction, because it makes her feel productive and fulfilledSnow’s favorite reads include self-help books, autobiographies and memoirs<\/p>\n
Brittany Snow<\/a>‘s list of must-reads has had a significant impact on her personal life.\n<\/p>\n The Hunting Wives<\/a> actress, 39, sat down for Bustle’s book-centric podcast, One Nightstand<\/a>, to share her all-time favorite reads. Snow shared that many of her go-to books \u2014 primarily nonfiction titles, autobiographies and self-help books \u2014 have propelled her through hard moments in her life, including her divorce and her father’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis.\n<\/p>\n Primarily, Snow reads nonfiction which\u00a0she said makes her feel productive and fulfilled, because she’s learning every time she picks up a book. “I feel like I’m utilizing my time a little bit more [with nonfiction],” Snow said, “even though that it completely nonsensical.”\n<\/p>\n One of Snow’s tried-and-true favorites, Are You Mad at Me? <\/a> by Meg Josephson, helped heal her inner child and unlearn some habits from her youth, she said. The book claims to be a “cure for chronic people-pleasing” and addresses the lesser-known “fawning” instinct.\n<\/p>\n Are You Mad at Me?.<\/p>\n Amazon<\/p>\n Snow connected with Josephson’s book because of their similar backgrounds: like the author, Snow’s family has dealt with alcoholism and Alzheimer’s, which ultimately pushed her to be a “chameleon person.”\n<\/p>\n \u201cMy favorite part of this book \u2014 and I think I underlined it \u2014 is when you become successful or a big thing happens in your career, most perfectionists and most people who have parents like this don\u2019t feel proud of themselves,” Snow said. “They feel relief. And I really relate to that.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n Another introspective read, The Untethered Soul <\/a> by Michael A. Singer, helped Snow get out of her own head. It’s an illuminating book by a “lyrical but also harsh” author, she said.\n<\/p>\n The Untethered Soul.<\/p>\n New Harbinger Publications\/ Noetic Books<\/p>\n \u201cIt was the first time it was explained to me that … I can actually step back from and realize that I\u2019m observing the thoughts as opposed to being around them and inside of them,” Snow reflected.\n<\/p>\n Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking<\/a> \u2014 widely praised for its raw look at grief and resilience \u2014 supported Snow after she suffered loss in her life. Didion’s autobiography follows the sudden death of her husband and the long, uncertain illness of their daughter Quintana, compounded in a very short time span.\n<\/p>\n The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now<\/a>!\n<\/p>\n Snow first picked up the autobiography after her dog died, then again when her father’s Alzheimer’s had gotten worse.\n<\/p>\n The Year of Magical Thinking.<\/p>\n “I\u2019ve been searching for so many different types of books about the end of life. I feel like this one really spoke to me because it\u2019s not prescriptive. It\u2019s not these beautiful lessons of what to do or how to feel \u2014 it\u2019s really just her baring her soul,” Snow said, adding the book had pushed her to be “a lot more present” with her father.\n<\/p>\n Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for\u00a0PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.\n<\/p>\n Another book, Untamed<\/a> by Glennon Doyle, helped her cope with another type of loss. A friend of hers recommended the book to Snow while she was going through her divorce from Tyler Stanaland<\/a>, she said. Untamed helped remind Snow that there’s no love without loss, and vice versa.\n<\/p>\n Untamed.<\/p>\n “Personally \u2014 and this isn\u2019t for everyone \u2014 I would choose having the love and then the heartbreak because I love feeling everything. I just love being in love,” Snow said. “And so I would do it again. I would always choose it. And I think that [this book] reminded me of that \u2014 that the point of life is to feel all these things.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW Brittany Snow revealed her most cherished reads \u2014\u00a0most of which helped her through hard moments…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[412,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-55043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}