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Nigerian-American actress Uzo Aduba was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Igbo parents who emigrated from Nigeria before she was born. She’s best known for her role as Suzanne ‘Crazy Eyes’ Warren on Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black—a role for which she has won two Emmys, making her the only other actor to join Ed Asner in wins for the same role in both the categories of comedy and drama. She has also received two Screen Actors Guild Awards for this role. “Art allows people to see into a world or a life that is different than theirs and hear the stories and unique perspectives that they may have never heard before,” Aduba told the Huffington Post—the same gift of global perspective could be said of books.
Below are Uzo Aduba's favorite books, available to purchase individually or as a set. See the full list...

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Green Eggs and Ham

Dr. Seuss

I read this book in Kindergarten. As a child born to immigrants, it reminded me that even though things can look different to the outside eye, in the end they are all the same, and all taste delicious.

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Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

My tribe were the primary victims of this wretched war, and like most who have survived the sights of war, they don’t like to talk about it because they are hard, very real memories. I knew pieces of my family’s story during this time, but when I read this book, I felt like I suddenly understood who my parents, aunts, and uncles were and what part of their formative years had entailed.

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Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela

One of the last great men. His entire life was an education on how to be better, and this book reflects two things for me: greatness and the measure of a human, and how the essence of bravery can take many forms.
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Sharon Horgan
From: $144.80
The Girl Who Ran

Christina Yee and Frances Poletti
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Jemima Kirke
$163.89
Therese Raquin

Emile Zola
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Kathy Griffin
From: $142.97
Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny

Suze Orman
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Leslie Odom Jr.
$163.79
The Autobiography of Malcom X

as told to Alex Haley
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Yara Shahidi
$150.91
Catch-22

Joseph Heller
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Dan Stevens
From: $220.83
The Complete Calvin & Hobbes

Bill Watterson
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Chelsea Handler
$155.86
Man’s Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl
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Matthew Modine
$182.93
The Cousteau Almanac of the Environment: An Inventory of Life on a Water Planet (Vintage Edition)

Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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Cillian Murphy
$174.94
Appointment in Samarra

John O'Hara