The October 2023 Celebrity Book Club Spoilers to Enjoy Now
Looking for the October 2023 Celebrity Book Club Spoilers? You’ve come to the right place!
We’ve rounded up the books that will be chosen by Reese Witherspoon, Read with Jenna, and the GMA Book Club for October 2023. These have NOT yet been officially released (as of now, they are all being announced on October 3) but we are fairly confident in our intel.
Still, we reserve the right to be wrong! Check back on October 3, 2023, to see if we got it correct!
In the meantime, we suggest using the October 2023 celebrity book club spoilers to put in your library holds early and get to the front of the list.
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October 2023 Celebrity Book Club Spoilers
October 2023 Reese Witherspoon Book Club Spoiler
Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club, Hello Sunshine, 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.
Starling House for Alix E. Harrow
October 2023 Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
I read this book from the New York Times best-selling author of Ten Thousand Doors of January and I absolutely loved every minute of it. Opal is a high school dropout who would do anything for her brother Jasper. She is determined to get him out of Eden Kentucky- the small town that is plagued with bad luck.
When Opal finds a job working at Starling House, the home of E. Starling, the author of The Underland who disappeared more than one hundred years ago, it seems too good to be true. The house is steeped in rumors of hauntings and strange things happening. And many of these rumors surround the house’s mysterious owner Arthur Starling.
This is an adult fantasy book that has a little bit of everything. It is part haunted house book, part fairy tale, part love story, and entirely a fast-paced, page-turning delight.
You can see the whole book list, ranked, here.
October 2023 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.
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
October 2023 Read with Jenna Book Club Pick
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s struggle to break free of her rigid Rastafarian upbringing, ruled by her father’s strict patriarchal views and repressive control of her childhood, to find her own voice as a woman and poet.
Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair’s father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particular, with the threat of what Rastas call Babylon, the immoral and corrupting influences of the Western world outside their home. He worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure, and believed a woman’s highest virtue was her obedience.
You can see all of Jenna’s Book Club picks here, where we ranked them.
October 2023 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.
The List by Yomi Adegoke
October 2023 Good Morning America Book Club
Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in one month’s time. Young, beautiful, and successful–she and her fiancé Michael are considered the “couple goals” of their social network and seem to have it all. That is, until one morning when they both wake up to the same message: “Oh my god, have you seen The List?”
It began as a crowdsourced collection of names and somehow morphed into.. MORE
For the whole list of GMA books, ranked, check out this post.
October 2023 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 October 2023 Oprah Book Club pick is below.
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
October 2023 Oprah Book Club Pick
Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation.
Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader’s guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Ward leads readers through the descent, this, her fourth novel, is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation.
From one of the most singularly brilliant and beloved writers of her generation, this miracle of a novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very land—the rich but unforgiving forests, swamps, and rivers of the American South. Let Us Descend is Jesmyn Ward’s most magnificent novel yet, a masterwork for the ages. MORE
With over 100 book picks under her belt, we have her full-ranked list in this post.
So which October 2023 celebrity book club picks will you be reading this month?
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Wellness! I was thrilled Oprah finally moved on from The Covenant of Water. That was a good one, but I read it in early summer and was ready to move on!! I was able to get at the head of the wait list at my local library. Just hope they get the physical book soon so I can follow the posted schedule.