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Actress Amber Tamblyn entered the world of entertainment as a child actress. After a six-year run on “General Hospital,” Tamblyn emerged and took roles in movies such as “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,” “127 Hours,” and a role on prime-time’s “Joan of Arcadia,” and has been nominated for a Golden Globe, Emmy, and Independent Spirit Award for her work. Tamblyn is also a poet; The San Francisco Chronicle published her work at age 12, and since then she’s published three works of poetry. Her memoir, Era of Ignition, was published earlier this year, and charted the course of her life from child actor to activist.
Below are Amber Tamblyn's favorite books, available to purchase as a set or individually. See the full list...

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Uncle Vanya

Anton Chekhov

Chekhov is one of my favorite playwrights and this is my favorite of his works. It's so demented and thrilling and morose. Chekhov has such a fantastic way of capturing a dysfunctional and emotionally abusive family dynamic, there's never a dull moment in his plays. This play in particular — with its themes of love and desire and fears of growing old and being alone — are exactly the kind of catharsis I would enjoy while sitting on a beach in my own isolation.

9

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Peter Høeg

I read this every winter. It has one of the best female protagonists I've ever read in a book. There are very few books I can think of that start out so small and unassuming and end so big and heroic. The lead character goes from being an inquisitive, quiet girl to a violent, powerful force by the end of the book, all while solving a murder that keeps unfolding new twists and turns. This book makes me feel strong. Like I could fight a bad guy on a burning barge then jump into to arctic freezing water to swim to my safety as it explodes. Which she does, in the book.

8

Loba

Diane di Prima

Diane di Prima is a legendary poet and feminist. These poems are the embodiment of a woman seeing herself both as feminine and animalistic all at once. Di Prima is considered the only woman who was part of the Beat movement of poets, but in my opinion, she is the strongest voice out of all of them, even more than Allen Ginsberg. She always wrote fiercely and violently, truthfully and potently. She is a wholly original voice and this book was the first glimpse of that.
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Niki Caro
$168.90
1Q84

Haruki Murakami
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Margherita Missoni Amos
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Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel García Márquez
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Jamie Lee Curtis
$143.82
Angle of Repose

Wallace Stegner
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Jenny Saville
$946.84
Night

Elie Wiesel
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Asif Kapadia
From: $142.90
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Patrick Suskind
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Irvine Welsh
$176.84
The Great Gatsby

F.Scott Fitzgerald
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Janet Mock
$178.91
The Color Purple

Alice Walker
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David Copperfield
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Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes
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Suzanne Vega
$187.90
Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë