August 2026 Celebrity Book Club Spoilers
Looking for the August 2026 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 August 2026 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 August 4th), 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 August 2026 book releases.
August 2026 Celebrity Book Club Spoilers
Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
The Wild Beneath by Kelly Anderson – Jump to read synopsis
Read with Jenna Book Club Pick
Sunlight Finds You by Laura Moriarty – Jump to read synopsis
Good Morning America Book Club Pick
Take What You Can by Naima Coster, The Hardest Ones to Fool by Christina Li – Jump to section for more info
Oprah Book Club Pick
Check back soon! – Jump to read synopsis
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August 2026 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.
The Wild Beneath
Author: Kelly Anderson
Release Date: August 4, 2026
Genre: Literary Fiction
More info: August 2026 Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
Plot
This dual-timeline novel tells the story of Annie’s life and connection to the ocean. In the past, she has an idyllic childhood on her parents’ sailboat with her best friend Evan; in the future timeline, she’s grappling with the loss of her Pacific Northwest coastal community after a tsunami destroys her town. And then she finds a man, Walker, washed ashore, unable to speak yet somehow showing her the magical depths of the ocean. Her understanding of the ocean might be about to change forever.
The Winged Game
Author: Sophie Kim
Release Date: June 30, 2026
Genre: Fantasy
More info: July 2026 YA Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
Plot
Tarissa was the best player of Carriwitchet in the UK until her rival, Kion destroyed her career. Now, in order to play the rugby game atop winged creatures, she had to fake-date the very man who took her down. But when a mysterious illness starts harming the beasts, they must work together to save their beasts lives and their beloved sport.
You can see the whole book list, ranked, here.
August 2026 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.
Sunlight Finds You
Author: Laura Moriarty
Release Date: August 4, 2026
Genre: Historical Fiction
More info: Bestselling author of The Chaperone, August 2026 Read with Jenna Book Club Pick
Spice Rating:💋
Age Range: 16+
Plot
It’s 1949 and 17-year-old Nora falls for Leonard, a recent transplant from New York. He is quiet, sweet, and thoughtful. While Leonard’s mother is welcoming, Leonard’s father is convinced that Nora will be a bad influence on Leo and derail his plans to go to an Ivy League School. When Leo and Nora are caught in a compromising situation, Nora is forced to cut all contact or risk the stigma that comes from such an accusation as a woman in the 1950s. This is the start of a chain of events that shape the rest of Nora’s life.
Leo enlists, and shortly after basic training, he is deployed for the Korean War. Nora still has feelings for Leo, but she is not sure if his feelings have changed. Nora is telling the story about her past as an older woman. It is a book about forgiveness and living life to its fullest. Will Leo and Nora ever find their way back to each other?
Trigger Warnings
War, teenage pregnancy, adoption
Why Jackie loves it
From the first page, I could not put this book down. It is a beautiful story that is both heartbreaking and inspiring. The characters are rich and feel real. This is one of my best books of the year. It is gorgeously written, and the audio narration is fantastic. Thank you @PRHaudio for my copy of this book.
Find this book in: The Best Read with Jenna Books / Best Historical Fiction Books of 2026
You can see all of Jenna’s Book Club picks here, where we ranked them.
August 2026 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.
Take What You Can
Author: Naima Coster
Release Date: August 4, 2026
Genre: Fiction
More info: August 2026 Good Morning America Book Club Pick
Plot
Val and Milly became best friends as the only Black students on a study abroad trip to France. Now, years later, they are both married and pregnant with baby girls. Milly suggests that Val move to New York so they can raise their daughters together. But when she arrives in New York, the women both question if their friendship can survive without Helene. She was the mother figure who guided them and loved them while they were in France.
Now, Milly and Val have very different lives, and they must come to terms with the rift that started all those years ago. This is a perfect book for our list of books about sisters and sisterhood from the August 2026 book releases.
The Hardest Ones to Fool
Author: Christina Li
Release Date: August 4, 2026
Genre: Thriller
More info: August 2026 Good Morning America YA Book Club Pick
Plot
Amelia is running the con of a lifetime by dating three wealthy teens at once and reaping the rewards of extravagant gifts and all-expenses-paid vacations. But her three boyfriends don’t know about each other, and she needs to keep it that way until her best friend winds up dead and those relationships start to unwind.
For the whole list of GMA books, ranked, check out this post.
August 2026 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.
She chose her current pick in mid-June, but she said our time with that book is over. Will she pick a new one this month?
Little Wonder
Author: Sophie Chen Keller
Release Date: June 16, 2026
Genre: Fiction
More info: June 2026 Oprah Book Club Pick
Age Range: 16+
Plot
Jenna Bush Hager’s Thousand Voices Imprint has its second celebrity book club pick with Little Wonder. Song delivers food in China and feels like a nobody while her son, River, is a musical genius. He started playing intricate pieces as a toddler, so it’s no surprise that he is offered a chance to study at an elite school when he was just 11. On his way to that school at a busy train station, River’s hand slips out of Song’s, and they are separated.
The story is their journey back to one another over many years. A mother with no money is searching for a child who is at a loss for how to find his mother.
Trigger Warnings
Poverty, loss of a child
Why Jackie likes it
This is an extremely powerful and poignant story that left me in tears. It is astounding to me that this is not a work of historical fiction but rather a work of contemporary fiction. The story is entirely plausible, which is what makes it even scarier.
Find this book in: Oprah Book Club List 2026 / The Best Thousand Voices Books
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 at the top.
- Prefer to buy the book? Place your pre-order now so you can have it on release day!
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