The Best Celebrity Book Clubs

Celebrity book clubs are all the rage, but they can be a lot to keep up with, and not all celebrity book clubs are created equally. Jackie and I have made a list of the best celebrity book clubs and why we love them.

If you want to pick a celebrity book club, where should you start? Whose book club is worth following? I can help! Jackie and I have kept up with many celebrity book clubs, and we have our favorites listed below.

The best celebrity book clubs have one thing in common. They choose books that people enjoy reading. This sounds like something obvious, but you would be surprised how many celebrity books clubs we have never heard of!

I will tell you what we love about each book club, and what we don’t love to help you choose a celbrity book club that works for you and the books we like to read.

The Best Celebrity Book Clubs

Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club

Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club was really 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.

Reese only picks female authors for her book club. She is known for picking books that showcase strong, resilient women. This is one of the many reasons her book club is so popular.

Jackie and I have followed Reese from the beginning. If you are not familiar with the kind of books Reese picks, I listed a few of my favorites. I have a list of the Best Reese Witherspoon books if you want to see all of my favorites.

• Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
• From Scratch by Tembi Locke
• The Christic Affair by Nina de Gramont

Read With Jenna – Jenna Bush Hager’s Book Club

Jenna Bush Hager started her book club on the Today show back in the spring of 2019. Her picks are generally stellar, with very few duds in the bunch.

They are often more literary than Reese’s picks and cover a variety of thought-provoking topics. You can see all of Jenna’s Book Club picks here. I have listed some of Jackie’s and my favorite Read with Jenna books below, if you are unfamiliar with her picks.

• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
• Solito by Javier Zamora
• Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

I also have a list of The Best Read with Jenna Books if you want to see my favorites.

The Good Morning America Book Club

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.

It’s not one of the celebrity book clubs with the face of one celeb, but rather the whole cast of GMA morning show anchors. Good Morning America has so many four and five-star books that our list of The Best Good Morning America Books has a lot of books on the list.

If you are not familiar with GMA book club picks, these are a few of our favorites.

• Dava Shastri’s Last Day
• The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
• Happiness Falls by Angie Kim

Oprah’s Book Club

And now we arrive at the OG. The queen bee of celebrity book clubs started picking best sellers back in 1996. After a brief hiatus, she relaunched Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 in 2012.

Oprah picks avary in bumber from year to year, but they are all heavy hitters. Deep, thought-provoking texts that can be hard to read at times, Oprah’s picks are best for when you are in a certain mood.

With over 100 book picks under her belt, we have her full ranked list in this post, but we also have a list of The Best Oprah Books. If you have never read any books from the Oprah book club, here are some great examples of her style

• Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
• The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
• Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker

More Celebrity Book Clubs

Belletrist: Emma Roberts’ club, with Karah Priess. This celebrity book club focuses on a niche selection of contemporary fiction and thought-provoking reads. 

Service95 Book Club: Dua Lipa’s book club. This book club is part of her newsletter and media platform, Service95. 

Library Science: Kaia Gerber’s book club. This book club focuses on interesting titles and has a presence on social media. 

TeaTime Book Club: Dakota Johnson’s book club. Dakota launched her book club in 2024. It is an extension of her production company, TeaTime Pictures. 

Frequently Asked Questions About Celebrity Book Clubs

Epilogue

What are your favorite celebrity book clubs?