July 2025 Celebrity Book Club Spoilers
Looking for the July 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.
July 2025 Celebrity Book Club Spoilers
Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
Spectacular Things by Beck Dorey-Stein, Stuck Up and Stupid by Angourie Rice and Kate Rice – Jump to read synopsis
Read with Jenna Book Club Pick
Happy Wife by Meredith Lavender and Kendall Shores – Jump to read synopsis
Good Morning America Book Club Pick
The Compound by Aisling Rawle – Jump to section for more info
Oprah Book Club Pick
Culpability by Bruce Holsinger – Jump to read synopsis
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July 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.
Spectacular Things
Author: Beck Dorey-Stein
Genre: Fiction
Release Date: July 1, 2025
More info: July 2025 Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
Plot
In their small town in Maine, Cricket and Mia Lowe are known to be the closest of sisters. Mia is the smart, responsible sister who looks after Cricket – a soccer star. Can they mature into adults and grapple with their mother’s secret past while staying close or is life destined to pull them apart?
Stuck Up and Stupid
Author: Angourie Rice, Kate Rice
Genre: YA Romance
Release Date: May 06, 2025
More info: Summer 2025 Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
Plot
Lily is ready for a summer of fun at her favorite beach until mega-star, Dorian Khan, shows up with his entourage and ruins her piece. The whole town is ga-ga for Dorian and his A-list friends, but Lily is not impressed at all… but they keep bumping into one another and she might not have judged him fairly after all.
You can see the whole book list, ranked, here.
July 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.
Happy Wife
Author: Meredith Lavender and Kendall Shores
Year: 2025
Genre: Thriller
More info: July 2025 Read with Jenna Book Club Pick
Spice Rating:💋
Age Range: 16+
Plot
At 28, Nora has two jobs: working as a swim instructor at a country club in Winter Park, FL and working as a receptionist. When she meets and marries successful attorney Will Somerset, who happens to be almost 2 decades older than she is, her entire life changes.
When Will suddenly disappears the day after the birthday bash Nora throws for him, suspicion falls on her. Why didn’t she report his absence immediately? With Will’s business partner, ex-wife, and the police all seemingly out to get her, Nora will have to use her instincts.
Why Jackie likes it
This was a fun, if not predictable, book. It was an easy read that didn’t have too many twists and turns to make it overly complicated. I liked Nora and her best friend as characters as well.
Find this book in: Read with Jenna Book Club List 2025
You can see all of Jenna’s Book Club picks here, where we ranked them.
July 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.
The Compound
Author: Aisling Rawle
Genre: Fiction
Release Date: June 24, 2025
More info: July 2025 Good Morning America Book Club Pick
Plot
This debut novel is about a reality TV show set at a compound where the contestants, including Lily, need to do what it takes to survive as the stakes get higher and higher.
For the whole list of GMA books, ranked, check out this post.
July 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 July 2025 Oprah Book Club pick is below.
Culpability
Author: Bruce Holsinger
Year: 2025
Genre: Fiction
More info: July 2025 Oprah Book Club Pick
Age Range: 16+
Plot
Are you looking for a summer read that doubles as a thought-provoking book club pick? Look no further than Culpability.
The story opens with the five members of the Cassidy-Shaws en route to a lax tournament when they are involved in a devastating accident in their self-driving car. Now the family is headed to the Chesapeake Bay for a week to recoup before facing the aftermath of the accident back at home.
But each family member is hiding secrets about the accident. Noah, our protagonist, is grappling with being distracted in the passenger seat when his 17-year-old son, Charlie, is behind the wheel. Lorelei, his wife, is an expert in the field of AI morality, and she was the one insistent that the car they were in was safe.
Scattered throughout the book are interviews on the effects of AI and quotes from Lorelei’s fictional book, which explores the moral consequences of machines without morals. Each family member is reacting differently to the accident, and their week on vacation has the power to push them together or drag them apart.
Why Kirsten loves it
This novel ponders the very real human culpability when AI is involved. And it’s not just examined via the autonomous car — bots, drones, and even smart home systems are examined with a critical eye throughout the story. I love how Lorelei and Noah’s relationship was depicted – while they struggle throughout these events, it was refreshing to see a man supporting a woman who is a rockstar in her field.
Holsinger was able to frame the abstract complexities of the consequences of AI into a compelling story that was as entertaining as it was demanding of deeper study. I hope this book gets into the hands of readers everywhere so that we can all ponder the message within. #gifted by Spiegel and Grau
Find this book in: Thought-Provoking 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 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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