and Jenny Zhang’s story collection, “Sour Heart,” are two recent favorites.

"My husband reads to him in the mornings. He wants to expose him to all kinds of reading. He’s read him 'A Brief History of Time' out loud. If Baz grows up and becomes a physicist, it’s because he read that book out loud," said Ferrera, of Stephen Hawking's classic work.

"I had to read (this) for school and really loved it. It was the first time I felt I would have read that book if it hadn’t been assigned to me," she said.

"I was a big 'Harry Potter' fan. I love all of them. The one that ended me was the 'Goblet of Fire.' That’s when the book went from feeling light and happy and hopeful to feeling like the stakes were so high. Voldemort is back. A child could be killed. That book felt like coming of age. The whole series was a massive influence for me," said Ferrera.

But mostly I’m reading “Goodnight Moon” to my 3-month-old son every single night.

I’m rereading my friend Amber Tamblyn’s brilliant debut novel, “Any Man.”

I’ve also been fascinated with “Sapiens,” by Yuval Noah Harari, but it’s quite dense and I usually pick it up at night so I keep falling asleep after a few paragraphs.

What books are on your nightstand?Brittney Cooper’s “Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower.” It’s razor sharp and hilarious.