Queen Camilla's Book Club: The Complete List of 18 seasons

The Queen’s Reading Room is Queen Camilla’s book club. Unlike all the other “celebrity” book clubs, Queen Camilla’s is now a charity. I put celebrity in quotes because the Queen is so much more. The Queen’s Reading Room can bring books and authors to shelters, food banks, and soup kitchens to make reading accessible to all. Queen Camilla has become a champion to those who support reading in their communities. For this reason, Kirsten and I wanted to make a complete list of the books in Queen Camilla’s book club.

Her Majesty, The Queen, chooses “four favorite books, in four seasons each year. ” At first, I was not sure what this meant. I realized that this is 16 books a year as opposed to the usual formula of one book per month, like Reese, Jenna, and GMA.

However, if you are looking at Queen Camilla’s book club, you will notice that Her Majesty did choose one book a month for 2025. This year, in 2026, Her Majesty is back to choosing 4 books a season. We wonder why.

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Queen Camilla’s Book Club: The Complete List

Season 1 (January-March 2021)

The Architect’s Apprentice by Elif Shafak
Restless by William Boyd
Where the Crawdads Sing by Dehlia Owens
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel

Season 2 (April-June 2021)

The Red Notebook by Antoine Lauren
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Girl by Edna O’Brien
The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust Volume Two) by Philip Pullman

Season 3 (July-September 2021)

War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Season 4 (October-Dec 2021)

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Left You Dead by Peter James
The Island by Victoria Hislop
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Season 5 January -March 2022

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
The Queen’s Necklace by Alexandre Dumas
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

Season 6 (January -February 2022)

Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Season 7 (July- September 2022)

Dark Tides by Philippa Gregory
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
The Fair Botanists by Sara Sheridan
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

Season 8 (October -December 2022)

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn

Season 9 (October -December 2022)

The Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
The Far Pavillions by M.M Kaye
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse

Season 10 (April – June 2023)

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Grams
The Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks

Season 11 (Jul–Sep 2023)

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Lady Glenconner
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Season 12 (Oct–Dec 2023)

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce
The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Season 13 (Jan–Mar 2024)

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Lord’s Day by Michael Dobbs
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Season 14 (Apr–Jun 2024)

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Some Experiences of an Irish R. M. by Edith Somerville & Martin Ross
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Still Life by Sarah Winman

Season 15 (July-September 2024)

Archangel by Robert Harris
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
Mapp and Lucia by E.F. Benson
Horse by Geraldine Brooks

Season 16 (October -December 2024)

The Hare With Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Tiepolo Blue by James Cahill
You Are Here by David Nicholls

Season 17 (2025)

January 2025 – Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Feb ruary 2025 –Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
March 2025- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
April 2025- The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley
May 2025 – The Figurine by Victoria Hislop
June 2025 – Miss Austen by Gill Hornby
July 2025 – Long Island by Colm Tóibín
August 2025- Orbital by Samantha Harvey
September 2025-The Golden Mole: And Other Vanishing Treasures by Katherine Rundell
October 2025 – Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
November 2025- Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz
December 2025- Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding and Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

Season 18 (January-March 2026)

Conclave by Robert Harris
In Memoriam by Alice Winn
Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny

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Expert Tip

Queen Camilla’s book club, The Queen’s Reading Room, started in 2021 and has now become a charity that promotes literacy. Her Majesty chooses books by the season (with the exception of 2025, in which the books were chosen monthly). Typically, there are four books in each of the four seasons, making 16 books a year. How do you know if Queen Camilla’s Book Club is right for you?

The Queen’s Reading Room has a variety of books from classics to thrillers.
Her Majesty does not pick new releases. For example, the season 18 picks include The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny, which was published in 2024. The Black Wolf is the next book in the series and was published in 2025.
The Queen’s picks are thought-provoking, but very readable books. I was surprised by how many books Kirsten and I have read (and LOVED) from this list.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is The Queen’s Reading Room Book Club?

The Queen’s Reading Room is Queen Camilla’s book club. I wanted to make a complete list of all the books chosen because I was having a hard time finding them all in one place. The website stops at season 16!

When did Queen Camilla’s book club start?

The Queen started her book club in January 2021, before Queen Elizabeth II died in September 2022. The Queen’s Reading Room was originally called The Duchess of Cornwall’s Reading Room.