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Marie Claire took a tour inside Madison Beer’s meaningful personal library. The singer’s book collection is filled with vintage classics, mental health reads, and now her own book: The Half of It.   Hear about all her favorite books and which popular series she's never read!

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00:00Hi, I'm Madison Beer and today I'm going to be taking Marie Claire into my library for

00:04shelf portrait.

00:09So the first book that I want to showcase is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through

00:14the Looking Glass. I was very, very excited when I found this. I go to a lot of like vintage shops

00:18and markets specifically looking for books and collecting vintage books is only something that

00:22I've been doing for like probably two years now, but it's become like my favorite hobby.

00:27I walked over to this girl, Stan, who had so, so many and I was like, do you have any really rare

00:30ones or anything that's really special? And she was like, oh, I mean, yeah, I have the rarest and

00:35one of the most special books. And when she pulls it out and showed me that it was Alice in Wonderland,

00:39I freaked out because I'm a huge Alice in Wonderland fan. I have a song called Fall the White Rabbit

00:43that is regarding Alice in Wonderland. One of my favorite things about this book is obviously

00:47the book itself, but I love when in vintage old books, it's someone personalized this to someone

00:54that says to Jack from Charles Dunn. And I think that's so cool that I now somehow have this book

00:59in my hands and Charles Dunn, if you're watching this, I'm sorry, I have your book. I feel like I

01:05have a piece of history in my hand and like the spine of the book is completely exposed and I don't

01:10know, just everything about it is really cool. And I feel really honored when I hold something like

01:14this in my hands. So yeah, this is one of my favorite and most prized possession books.

01:18The second book that I want to show is The Body Keeps the Score. This is one of my

01:22all-time favorite books. Specifically, I love reading mental health books and

01:26this book really was the catalyst for getting me into this mental health journey of healing

01:32and understanding my trauma and working through it in a proper way. And I actually discovered

01:36and started reading this book when I was on a bit of a mental health retreat. It made me feel

01:40really seen. So yeah, I really, really love this one. It impacted me a lot. So to sort of say on the same

01:47vein of mental health books, this is another one that I really, really love and swear by. It's called

01:51Love Me, Don't Leave Me. And it's about overcoming fear of abandonment and building loving, lasting

01:55relationships. I was reading this at a time where I was really just trying to figure out

02:01how I can heal myself and better my life in ways that I felt like I was lacking. And this was something

02:06that I didn't even know that I needed, but I really, really needed. It just made me, again, feel really

02:10seen, understood. It made me understand how to navigate life and relationships, friendships,

02:16romantic ones, whatever it is better. And yeah, how I can cope with my issues.

02:23The next book that I would like to talk about is The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. I think this was

02:29probably arguably the first ever book that impacted me in my life. I was just touched by the whole story

02:34and I felt like it was really important to learn about giving and what that means in return. And just,

02:39there were so many aspects and lessons that I feel like this book taught me super young. And I actually

02:43have a tattoo, which is a little boy on my foot. I think it teaches us important lessons that we

02:48should carry out through adulthood. So the next book I want to talk about that really touched me

02:52was Conflicts PTSD from Surviving to Thriving. This is something that definitely changed my life

02:58because I think that as someone who struggled with mental health issues, I've never been someone who

03:03wanted to say that I have PTSD because to me, that was always a term that was very serious. And I,

03:09I guess I guilt shamed and victim shamed myself into thinking that what I had gone through wasn't

03:13serious enough to be called PTSD. But this book is so affirming in the sense that like,

03:18even if you grew up in a household that you didn't feel seen as a child in like that is traumatic and

03:23you can have PTSD from that, that lingers throughout your adult life. And this is just about like

03:28recovering those things, work with your inner child. I remember picking up this book and I loved

03:33reading that because I was like, I definitely felt really hated for a lot of my childhood,

03:37specifically on the internet. And I feel like, again, I was sort of in this like victim shaming,

03:41like, Oh, you, you aren't worthy of reading this book mentality. And then I was like, no,

03:45this is serious. And I think I do struggle with PTSD in a lot of ways. So this book changed my life.

03:49And if any of those things relate to you, you should read it. It's really helpful.

03:53So the final book I want to talk about is my book, The Half of It. Um, this comes out on April 25th

03:58and I'm really, really excited about it. I'm really proud of it. I feel like all the books I had mentioned

04:02previously were actually the reason that I felt confident or capable enough to even write this in the first

04:06place because I'm unsure of the place that I would be in without those. So I felt like writing

04:10something that hopefully could make other people feel that same way that I felt reading those books.

04:14And I feel like as human beings, it's only our jobs to learn from each other's experiences and

04:20hear each other out and have empathy for one another, lend out a hand of kindness. And that's

04:24really what I want with this book is for everyone to just realize that everyone has a story you just

04:28haven't read yet. Um, it's really important to me. It's very special. I talk about a lot in this book that

04:33I've never talked about before. So if you want to get your hands on it, April 25th, and I hope you

04:37guys love it. My favorite genre of books would have to either be poetry books or mental health books.

04:42The last time I stayed up all night to finish a book would have to have been mine because I remember

04:46we were trying to reach a deadline and it wasn't finished yet. So I had to literally stay up all

04:50night and make sure it got done. I think that my fans would have to be the people who give me the best

04:54book recommendations. I feel like I can go online and I'll have a bunch of mentions just saying like,

04:58hey, you should read this book. And they're always so spot on. Also at my concerts, a lot of my fans

05:02will bring me books in person for me to read. And it's so sweet. And I always read them. I think

05:07I like discussing books the most with my best friend, Luna. She has read most books. And so I

05:14like to talk to her in depth about the books that we've read together. I usually like to buy my books

05:19at vintage shops. There's actually one bookstore that if I can shout them out, David Kaye's books in like

05:24Woodland Hills. If you live in the LA area and you want to go to the valley to an amazing bookstore,

05:29I would say 85% of these books are from him. He just has an incredible collection that I love

05:34shopping from, but mainly vintage stores. The process of writing my book was really therapeutic

05:39for me. It was very telling. I feel like I learned a lot about myself that I didn't even know. And it

05:43was really fun. I have journal prompts in the book because in a lot of the mental health books that I

05:48like to read, it would have sort of this calm response thing in it. And I felt like that was really

05:53helpful for me as a reader to stay immersed in the book and be attentive with it. So I wanted

06:00to do that. It was really fun to sort of figure out what prompt I wanted to write after every story

06:04that I told. So that was, that was a really fun part of it. A book that I've never read is Harry

06:09Potter. And I think people find that to be simple. So yeah, sorry. My favorite place to read a book would

06:16definitely be in bed. I think it puts me to sleep nicely. I do sleep with the TV on. So if I'm trying to be

06:21good and not sleep with the TV on, I'll read a book. Okay guys, thank you so much for watching.

06:24I hope you enjoyed my video of shelf portrait. My book, the half of it is out everywhere on April 25th

06:30and don't forget to subscribe to Marie Claire.

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06:59See you.

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