August 2025 Celebrity Book Club Spoilers
Looking for the August 2025 Celebrity Book Club Spoilers? You’ve come to the right place! For years, I’ve worked with sources in the book industry to bring you these spoilers before they are announced so you can get ahead on library holds and preorders.
Once again, I’ve rounded up the books that will be chosen as July 2025 book club picks by the Reese Witherspoon, Oprah, Read with Jenna, and GMA Book Clubs. These have NOT yet been officially released (as of now, they are all being announced on June 24) but I am fairly confident in our intel.
While you are waiting to read these releases, I suggest using these spoilers to put in your library holds early and get to the front of the list. You can also check out the rest of the July 2025 new book releases.
August 2025 Celebrity Book Club Spoilers
Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
Once Upon a Time in Dollywood by Ashley Jordan – Jump to read synopsis
Read with Jenna Book Club Pick
My Only Heart by Emma Nahami Strenner – Jump to read synopsis
Good Morning America Book Club Pick
Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson, YA – Immortal Consequences by I.V. Marie – Jump to section for more info
Oprah Book Club Pick
Bridge of Signs by Richard Russo – Jump to read synopsis
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August 2025 Reese Witherspoon Book Club Spoiler
Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club, Hello Sunshine, was the first of the modern celebrity book clubs to catch on in recent years. Started in 2017, her list features thrillers, romances, historical fiction, YA, non-fiction, and modern fiction.
Once Upon a Time in Dollywood
Author: Ashley Jordan
Release Date: August 5, 2025
Genre: Fiction
More info: August 2025 Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick
Spice Rating:💋💋💋
Age Range: 18+
Plot
Part of Reese’s Lit Up Book Club, this debut novel is about a struggling playwright facing writer’s block. Eve has turned her life upside down after breaking up with her fiancé and heading to the mountains of Tennessee for a fictional “writing retreat.”
Meanwhile, Jamie Gallagher is bruised and battered from the drawn-out custody battle he just won and is trying to settle into single-dad life. When Eve and Jamie are drawn to each other, they must ask if they can handle falling in love again. Can they make it work with work and parental obligations? #Gifted PRH audio
Why Jackie likes it
This is a romance that has everything you expect, but it also examines deeper issues like parenting, finding purpose, and happiness. It examines the characters a little more closely than some romance books. I was hooked.
You can see the whole book list, ranked, here.
August 2025 Read With Jenna Book Club Spoiler
Jenna Bush Hager started her book club on the Today Show back in the spring of 2019. They are often more literary than Reese’s picks and cover various thought-provoking topics. Check back soon for the August pick!
My Other Heart
Author: Emma Nahami Strenner
Genre: Fiction
Release Date: August 5, 2025
More info: August 2025 Read with Jenna Book Club Pick
Plot
In the summer of 1998, Mimi Truang’s toddler disappears at the Philadelphia airport on her way home to Vietnam. Now, 17 years later, Kit and Sabrina are discussing going abroad to reconnect with their roots before heading to college. Kit has the support of her white adoptive parents to head to Japan to connect with her culture, while Sabrina wishes to do the same in China, but money is tight for her single mom. Instead, Sabrina forms a connection with Mimi, who has finally saved up enough to come back to Philadelphia in search of her daughter.
You can see all of Jenna’s Book Club picks here, where we ranked them.
August 2025 Good Morning America Book Club Spoiler
GMA’s answer to Read with Jenna was to host their own celebrity book club. This one launched in the Fall of 2019 and it’s probably the best one of the bunch. As of October 2024, GMA will also be announcing a YA pick each month.
Not Quite Dead Yet
Author: Holly Jackson
Genre: Thriller
Release Date: July 22, 2025
More info: August 2025 Good Morning America Book Club Pick
Plot
This is a twisty thriller that is unlike anything I have seen before. Jet Mason is going to solve her own murder. On Halloween, Jet is attacked and has a brutal head injury. The doctor is sure that she will die within 7 days of an aneurysm. Now, with only her best friend from childhood at her side, she is determined to discover who would want her dead.
Immortal Consequences
Author: I. V. Marie
Release Date: July 29, 2025
Genre: YA Fantasy
More info: August 2025 Good Morning America YA Book Club Pick
Spice Rating:💋
Age Range:
Plot
Immortal Consequences is a thrilling dark academia fantasy set at Blackwood Academy, where the students go after death, but before moving on. The only way out is to win the magical Decennial competition, and only the best are chosen to compete.
This year, two students from each house are competing to win, but as the competition continues and the stakes are higher, nothing is as it seems. Rules are changing, and suddenly the prize may not be all it’s cracked up to be. Gifted by PRH Audio
Trigger Warnings
Descriptions of Death
Why Jackie loves it
If you loved Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, then you will love this book. Think about the final maze in the Triwizard Tournament, then make it darker and filled with emotional tension between the characters, and you have an idea of what to expect in this fast-paced book. I am only annoyed that I have to wait a while to see what happens to the characters.
For the whole list of GMA books, ranked, check out this post.
August 2025 Oprah Book Club Spoiler
Oprah doesn’t release her book club picks in the same way as the rest of the celebrity book clubs. She picks them when she likes, on no timetable. Her picks often span multiple months for reading and discussion as well. Here is the August 2025 Oprah Book Club Pick.
Bridge of Sighs
Author: Richard Russo
Genre: Fiction
Release Date: 2007
More info: August 2025 Oprah Book Club pick
Plot
Lucy has spent his entire life in Thomaston, New York, where he runs his family’s empire of convenience stores. Now, along with his wife of 40 years, he’s planning to visit his best friend at his Venice home. While visiting, he’s hoping to unravel the mysteries of history.
For the whole list of Oprah books, ranked, check out this post.
What to do with the book club spoilers
- Use these spoilers to get on the library hold list before the masses!
- If your library doesn’t have it on a preorder list, ask them to purchase it and your name will be on the top.
- Prefer to buy the book? Place your pre-order now so you can have it on release day!
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Epilogue
I’m most excited about the Oprah pick this month. I already downloaded it on audio! Which of these books do you plan on reading?
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