Summer Reads From Celebrity Book Clubs

A Good Morning America Book Club pick, Malas is a story full of passion and revenge, following one family living on the Texas Mexico border and a curse that reverberates across generations. Rich with cinematic details — from dusty rodeos to the excitement of a Selena concert and the comfort of conjunto ballads played at family gatherings — this memorable debut is a love letter to the Tejano culture and community that sustain both of these women as they discover what family means.

In this Read With Jenna Book Club pick, in the summer of 1977, Victoria Leonard’s world changes forever when Caitlin Somers chooses her as a friend. Dazzling, reckless Caitlin welcomes Vix into the heart of her sprawling, eccentric family, opening doors to a world of unimaginable privilege. Now, years later, Vix is working in New York City. Caitlin is getting married on the Vineyard. And the early magic of their long, complicated friendship has faded. But Caitlin begs Vix to come to her wedding, to be her maid of honor. And Vix knows that she will go — because she wants to understand what happened during that last shattering summer.

A TODAY show, Read With Jenna Book Club pick, The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. Here is a 40th anniversary hardcover edition of Sandra Cisneros’s beloved coming-of-age novel with a new introduction by John Phillip Santos.

From the award-winning author of The Leavers and chosen as a Belletrist Book Club pick, Memory Piece is an innovative and audacious story of three lifelong friends as they strive to build satisfying lives in a world that turns out to be radically different from the one they were promised.

A Reese’s Book Club pick, discover this novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine. Enthralling, richly imagined, filled with psychic mediums and charlatans, spirits and past lives, mothers, marriage, and the legacy of alcoholism, this is a deeply moving novel about the land we inhabit, the women who came before us, and the ways in which none of us will ever truly leave this earth.

A Read With Jenna Book Club pick and “a bottomless champagne flute of a novel” (Washington Post), The Husbands delights in asking: How do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world of never-ending options?

In this “rich, complex family saga” (USA Today) full of long-buried family secrets, Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, blithely ignorant of all that awaits them. By 2016, they have four radically different daughters, each in a state of unrest. As they grapple with years marred by adolescent angst, infidelity, and resentment, they also find the transcendent moments of joy that make everything else worthwhile. A Reese’s Book Club pick!

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures? A Read With Jenna Book Club pick!

“[A] richly textured and deeply moving debut” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) about one unforgettable Southern Black family and its youngest daughter’s coming-of-age in the 1990s. With visceral clarity and powerful prose, Dameron reveals the devastation of being made to feel invisible and the transformative power of being seen. A Reese’s Book Club pick, Redwood Court is a celebration of extraordinary, ordinary people striving to achieve their own American dreams.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about a modern marriage and the bonds that keep people together. Mining the absurdities of contemporary society, this Oprah’s Book Club pick reimagines the love story with a healthy dose of insight, irony, and heart.

A Read With Jenna Book Club pick! From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: A story of heartbreak and friendship and how to survive both. In this sharply funny and exquisitely relatable story of romantic disaster and friendship, Dolly Alderton offers up a love story with two endings, demonstrating once again why she is one of the most exciting writers today, and the true voice of a generation.

A Good Morning America Book Club pick from the celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age comes a fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a professor and three unruly students.