Blair Underwood shares his six favorite books

Ever wonderment what your favourite celebrities are reference — whether it’s a timeless classical aliases nan buzzy bestseller they can’t put down? Welcome to Page-Turners, wherever stars uncover nan books that support them hooked, inspired and up each night. Warning: your TBR heap is astir to get a batch longer.

Blair Underwood’s is simply a nonfiction reader.

“I’ve ever been much of a documentary person,” nan “Doc” character — whose caller book astir his mom, “A Soldier’s Wife: My Mother, The Marvelous Mrs. Marilyn A. Underwood,” is retired now — told Page Six.

“As an actor, I walk a batch of clip stepping into imagined worlds, truthful erstwhile I’m connected my own, I for illustration to publication astir existent history, existent group and different cultures.”

He added that “balance” keeps him grounded.

The “Don’t Ever Wonder” character explained his mom ever pushed him to beryllium a reader, but he wasn’t really willing successful it increasing up. He said reference initially “felt for illustration thing to get through, not thing to enjoy.”

However, Underwood’s views shifted erstwhile he “discovered I could utterly vanish into different lives & distant realities. Then… it became an escape.”

See beneath for nan “One Spoon of Chocolate” actor’s must-read book recommendations.

“Truly” by Lionel Richie

“I emotion this book because we travel nan bonzer life of Lionel Richie and nan stories down nan creation of truthful galore songs that correspond nan soundtrack of our lives.”

“My Soul to Keep” by Tananarive Due

“I’m drawn to it because it makes you deliberation astir love, legacy, and what you’d really sacrifice to clasp onto both. In addition, it forces you to grapple pinch immortality. Would that, could that beryllium a blessing aliases a curse?”

“Jonathan Livingston Seagull” by Richard Bach

“What I emotion astir Jonathan is that he’s consenting to beryllium formed retired conscionable to pursuit thing deeper successful himself. While everyone other is focused connected survival, he’s obsessed pinch mastering flight, moreover erstwhile it costs him belonging. His struggle feels real. It’s astir choosing maturation complete comfort, and staying committed moreover erstwhile you’re unsocial successful your pursuits.”

“Acres of Diamonds” by Russell H. Conwell

“It reminds maine that opportunity is usually correct wherever I am. I conscionable person to admit it.”

“A Soldier’s Wife” by Blair Underwood pinch Ylonda Gault

“It’s a communicative astir my Mama. What’s not to love? But seriously, this book is for anyone who loves their mother and/or is looking for a roadmap to beryllium loved, respected and honored by their ain children.”

“An Empire of Their Own” by Neal Gabler

“I for illustration it because it’s really astir a group of outsiders trying to fig retired wherever they fresh and ending up building thing monolithic successful nan process, nan Hollywood movie-making machine. They weren’t conscionable making movies, they were shaping what nan thought of America and nan atomic family moreover looked like.”