Jimmy Fallon Book Club: Complete List

Celebrity book clubs are becoming ever more popular, with the late-night talk show hosts getting in on the reading action. The Jimmy Fallon Book Club, sometimes called Fallon Summer Reads, launched in 2018. But I had a hard time finding all the books in one place, so I made a complete list of the Jimmy Fallon Book Club picks.

Beginning in the summer of 2018, Jimmy picked six books and had fans vote for the one they wanted to read together. Fallon would have the authors on his show to talk about the book. With the success of the first year, Fallon did this again in the summer of 2019. In 2020, the book club had a forced break, but Fallon picked it up again in 2021. In 2022, Fallon made the executive decision to choose the book he wanted to read.

The book club took a short hiatus in 2023 before returning full force in 2024. In the spring of 2024, the picks had a “sweet sixteen” twist. Fallon gave 16 books to choose from rather than just five or six. The summer of 2025 was back to the usual list of books from which viewers could choose. Because fans and viewers were choosing from a list of popular books, it is no surprise that Kirsten and I loved these books. You can see my Tonight Show Book Club Reviews if you want to check them out.

While we are eagerly waiting for the choices for the 2026 Fallon Summer Reads picks, it is the perfect time to have a look at past choices. Do you have predictions or suggestions?

Jimmy Fallon Book Club

• Summer 2018
  • Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
  • IQ by Joe Ide
  • Providence by Caroline Kepnes
  • The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong
  • The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
• Summer 2019
  • Ask Again Yes by Mary Beth Keane
  • The Gone Dead by Chanelle Benz
  • Fleishman is in trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Anker
  • The Chain by Adrian McKinty
  • The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• Summer 2021
  • The Plot by Hean Hanff Korelitz
  • People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
  • Razor Blade Tears by SA Cosby
  • One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
  • Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
  • The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton
• Summer 2022
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
• Spring 2024
  • Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra
  • The Fury by Alex Michaelides
  • James by Percival Everett
  • Grief is for People by Sloane Crosley
  • Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
  • Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
  • The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes
  • Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
  • Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
  • The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
  • Interesting Facts and Space by Emily Austin 
  • The Hunter by Tana French 
  • The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard
  • The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
  • A Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke
  • How To Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin
• Summer 2024
  • The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
  • Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
  • The Last Murder at the End of The World by Stuart Turton
  • The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
  • I was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
  • You are Here by David Nocholls
• Summer 2025
  • My Friends by Frederik Backman
  • The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett
  • What Will People Think? by Sara Hamdan
  • Maggie; Or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar by Katie Yee
  • What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown

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Epilogue

Do you have a favorite book from the Jimmy Fallon Book Club?