January 2025 Celebrity Book Club Spoilers
Looking for the January 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 January 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 January 7) 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 January 2025 new book releases.
January 2025 Celebrity Book Club Spoilers
Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan, Throwback by Maurene Goo – Jump to read synopsis
Read with Jenna Book Club Pick
The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus by Emma Knight – Jump to read synopsis
Good Morning America Book Club Pick
Homeseeking by Karissa Chen – Jump to section for more info
Oprah Book Club Pick
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan – Jump to read synopsis
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January 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.
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
Author: Kate Fagan
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Release Date: January 7, 2025
More info: January 2025 Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
Plot
Cate is a successful author under her pen name, but she is considering revealing her true identity. When the events of her past come back to haunt her, she realizes she needs to head home to face them heads on.
Throwback
Author: Maurene Goo
Year: 2024
Genre: YA Fantasy
More info: Winter 2024 YA Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
Plot
This clever story has a Gen Z girl stuck in the 1990s – where she encounters her 17-year-old mom. Can she escape back to her own time? Does she want to?
You can see the whole book list, ranked, here.
January 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.
The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus
Author: Emma Knight
Year: 2025
Genre: Fiction
More info: January 2025 Read with Jenna Book Club Pick
Plot
In this debut novel, Pen is trying to uncover her family’s secrets at the Scottish home of Lord Lenox, a famous writer. This coming-of-age story also features Pen’s first love, life at university, and motherhood.
You can see all of Jenna’s Book Club picks here, where we ranked them.
January 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.
Homeseeking
Author: Karissa Chen
Genre: Fiction
Release Date: January 7, 2025
More info: January 2025 Good Morning America Book Club Pick
Plot
Suchi and Haiwen met when Suchi was seven in their Shanghai neighborhood. Their friendship grew to love only to be separated when Haiwen enlisted in the Nationalist army in 1947 to save his brother. Now, sixty years later, Haiwen sees Suchin in a Los Angeles market for the first time in 60 years. In this pick from the January 2025 book releases, we will travel from Hong Kong to Taiwan, New York and California as Haiwen’s story is told from Present to past and Suchi’s story is told from the past to the present.
The January 2025 YA GMA Book Club Pick is not yet known. Check back for updates or feel free to drop a tip in the comments.
For the whole list of GMA books, ranked, check out this post.
January 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. The January 2025 Oprah Book Club pick is below.
Small Things Like These
Author: Claire Deegan
Genre: Literary Fiction
Release Date: 2022
More info: December 2024 Oprah Book Club Pick
Plot
Set in 1985, this short Christmas book tells the story of an Irish coal miner who wants to face the injustices of the church’s treatment of unmarried mothers and their children.
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 for the GMA pick this month. I already downloaded it on audio! Which of these books do you plan on reading?
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