8 celebrity book club picks to read this month from Reese Witherspoon, Jenna Bush Hager and more
Celebrity bookworms are here to stay.
Ever since Oprah Winfrey started her iconic book club in the ’90s, celebrities including Reese Witherspoon, Emma Roberts, Dua Lipa and Jenna Bush Hager have joined the ranks, picking monthly books that skyrocket to the top of the bestseller lists.
“I absolutely love reading, I love the idea of sharing how books make people feel … books are really important to me and if I can share that in some way, then I feel like I’m on the right track,” Lipa told Elle UK in 2023.
Roberts, who started Belletrist with best friend Karah Preiss in 2017, told AP that giving book recommendations brings her “so much joy.”
Witherspoon, meanwhile, built an empire on books with her Hello Sunshine media company, highlighting diverse female authors.
See below for all the October celebrity book club picks.
Dua Lipa’s Service95 Book Club October 2025 pick: “Flesh” by David Szalay
Goodreads rating: 3.85/5
“This is a book that constantly keeps you guessing. Even down to the dialogue, which is like nothing I’ve ever read before,” Lipa wrote of her October pick. “In ‘Flesh,’ David pares speech back to the bone, and there are almost no physical descriptions of any of the characters – you’re left to picture them for yourself. Instead, key moments such as István’s changing fortunes are reflected through small observations like his habit for cigarettes, then cigars, and then vapes. Yet despite these spare details, I found Flesh a tense and gripping read – and by the end, I cared deeply about István.
“David Szalay’s discipline as a writer to give us just enough is unmatched. In István, he has created a character who will be analyzed and puzzled over by every reader that encounters him. I can’t wait to see what David does next.”
Natalie Portman’s Nat’s Book Club October 2025 pick: “The Bee Sting” by Paul Murray
Goodreads rating: 3.89/5
“This October’s book pick is ‘The Bee Sting,’ by Irish author Paul Murray,” Portman announced on her book club’s Instagram. “It’s a moving, often funny depiction of family life in post-2008 Ireland, told through the perspectives of each of the four Barnes family members. Murray gives us a nuanced look into the stories we tell within families and how they affect our individual lives. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on this gorgeous novel!”
Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club October pick: “Gone Before Goodbye” by Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben
Goodreads rating: 4.00/5
While technically Witherspoon doesn’t have an official October book club pick, she is promoting her own book “Gone Before Goodbye” all month.
“No October book pick this month because I’m taking the whole club on book tour with me! 📚✨I can’t wait to share ‘Gone Before Goodbye’ with you in person and online,” she wrote alongside a video of her announcement to skip this month’s pick.
“Good Morning America” Book Club October 2025 pick: “Twice” by Mitch Albom
Goodreads rating: 4.51/5
“A #GMABookClub October pick so good… you’ll want to read it ‘Twice,'” “GMA” teased of their latest read. “Mitch Albom’s ‘Twice’ is a an unforgettable emotional journey of love, romance, and second-chance magic. No take-backs needed — this one’s a page-turner you’ll remember the first time.”
Jenna Bush Hager’s Read with Jenna Book Club October 2025 pick: “The Irish Goodbye” by Heather Aimee O’Neill
Goodreads rating: 4.06/5
“We meet the Ryan sisters at an unforgettable Thanksgiving dinner and are immediately drawn to their personalities and the bond they share, even as long-buried secrets surface,” Bush Hager wrote alongside her announcement. “Heather captures the complexity of family relationships so beautifully — you’ll find yourself laughing and crying at the same time.
“This is the kind of book that will have you canceling weekend plans just to keep reading. I love it so much, and I know you will too.”
Emma Roberts and Karah Preiss’s Belletrist Book Club October 2025 pick: “Will There Ever Be Another You” by Patricia Lockwood
Goodreads rating: 3.37/5
“Amid a global pandemic, one young woman is trying to keep the pieces together – of her family, stunned by a devastating loss, and of her mind, left mangled and misfiring from a mystifying disease. She’s afraid of her own floorboards, and ‘WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DON’T HURT ME’ plays over and over in her ears. She hates her friends, or more accurately, she doesn’t know who they are. Has the illness stolen her old mind and given her a new one?” Roberts’ club, Belletrist, wrote, in part, of their October book.
“‘Will There Ever Be Another You’ is the brain-shredding, phosphorescent story of one woman’s dissolution and her attempt to create a new way of thinking, as well as a profound investigation into what keeps us alive in times of unprecedented disorientation and loss, from one of our most original writers.”
Dakota Johnson’s TeaTime Book Club October 2025 pick: “The Wilderness” by Angela Flournoy
Goodreads rating: 3.73/5
“This month we’re reading ‘The Wilderness’ by Angela Flournoy. It’s so special. It’s an era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship, as they move through the dizzying and sometimes precarious period between young adulthood and midlife. And, ahem, it’s longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction!” Johnson’s TeaTime Book Club announced of their new read.
Oprah Winfrey’s current book club pick: “A Guardian and a Thief” by Megha Majumdar
Goodreads rating: 4.26/5
“My next @oprahsbookclub pick is ‘A Guardian and a Thief’ by the exquisitely skilled author @megha.maj,” Winfrey wrote of her new pick. “Set in near-future Kolkata, India, the novel takes you through a tense one-week race of a desperate mother chasing the thief who stole her family’s precious immigration papers that she needs to join her husband in America. I was spellbound from the very first page and I’m still thinking about it today.”
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