The Most Recent Celebrity Book Club Picks of 2026
Can’t decide what to read next? Sometimes the answers lie in the stars … celebrities that is! Enjoy the latest book recommendations from your favorite celebrity book clubs, including Reese Witherspoon, Jenna Bush Hager, Oprah Winfrey, and more.
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Add to BookshelfYesteryear
by Caro Claire Burke
Good Morning America Book Club
Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle. Her charming farmhouse is rustic, her husband a handsome cowboy, her six children each more delightful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers behind the scenes, her kitchen hiding industrial-grade fridges and ovens, her husband the heir to a political dynasty? What Natalie’s followers — all 8 million of them — don’t know won’t hurt them. Until one morning she wakes up in a life that isn’t hers. Has she become the unwitting star of a ruthless reality show? Could it really be time travel? When Natalie suffers a brutal injury in the woods, she realizes two things: This is not her beautiful life, and she must escape by any means possible.
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Into the Blue
by Emma Brodie
Reese’s Book Club
In the summer of 2000, AJ Graves is stuck working in a video rental store, with slim odds of escaping her small Massachusetts town. Then in walks Noah Drew, the enigmatic and intense scion of the Drew acting dynasty, and her life changes forever. Despite wildly different upbringings, the two forge a deep, cosmic bond — until one day, Noah disappears without a word. Seven years later, in New York City, AJ is shocked to find herself cast in the same intergalactic TV production as Noah, by then a well-known Hollywood heartthrob. Blending unforgettable characters, explosive chemistry and yearning, and profound emotion, Into the Blue asks: What does it mean to diverge from the script to forge your own story?
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Kin
by Tayari Jones
Oprah’s Book Club
Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood but are fated to live starkly different lives. A novel about mothers and daughters, friendship and sisterhood, and the complexities of being a woman in the American South, Kin is an exuberant, emotionally rich, unforgettable work from one of the brightest and most irresistible voices in contemporary fiction.
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Upward Bound
by Woody Brown
Read With Jenna
A wondrous, deeply affecting portrait of the interlocking lives at an adult day care center in Southern California. Woody Brown has created an indelible, authentic, and profoundly moving group portrait of autism and other disabilities, all illuminated by his empathy, sly sense of humor, and enormous gifts as a novelist. With remarkable sophistication, insight, and creativity, Brown depicts a community too-often invisible in literature and society. Filled with characters you won’t soon forget, Upward Bound will inspire and touch you, teaching you as much about yourself as the tender, miraculous world behind the center’s doors.
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The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives
by Elizabeth Arnott
Good Morning America Book Club
Beverley, Elsie, and Margot are not your average housewives. They are all wives of convicted killers. During the sun-drenched summer of 1966, the three women form an unlikely friendship after the discoveries of their husbands’ brutal crimes. At once a riveting portrayal of shattered trust and a story of gripping suspense, The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives is a testament to the intricacies of women’s lives and how the deep bonds of female friendship can empower, uplift, and lead us to endure.
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One & Only
by Maurene Goo
Read With Jenna
Cassia Park believes in soul mates. Fated love stories. It’s her family business, after all — for centuries, from Korea to Los Angeles, Park women have peered into clients’ past lives to find their one true love, their fated. This magical secret is why One & Only Matchmaking has a 100% guarantee … for everyone but Cassia. As she battles between fate and chance, head and heart, a family secret is revealed that will make her question everything she’s ever known. Cassia will have to decide if she’ll follow her fate or make her own.
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Strangers
by Belle Burden
Belletrist
In March 2020, with no warning or explanation, Belle Burden’s husband of 20 years announced that he was leaving her. Overnight, her caring, steady partner became a man she hardly recognized. He exited his life with her like an actor shrugging off a costume. With unflinching honesty and profound grace, Burden charts a path through heartbreak to show the power of a woman who refuses to give up on love. Strangers is a stunning, deeply moving, compulsively readable memoir heralding the arrival of a thrilling new literary talent.
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The Exes
by Leodora Darlington
Good Morning America Book Club
Natalie has only ever wanted to find “the one.” The perfect man, the happy family she never had. But each time she thinks she is finally getting somewhere, she’s bitterly disappointed. Another red line through a list of exes. And that was before the night of the Big Fallout that left her even more alone. Then along comes James, and Natalie thinks her luck has finally turned. Maybe he’s the one for her. Maybe he’s the one she’s been waiting for all along. Maybe he won’t wind up dead.
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The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts
by Kim Fu
Belletrist
In the aftermath of her mother’s death, Eleanor is unmoored. For years, her mother orchestrated every detail of her life so that Eleanor could focus on her career as a therapist. Eleanor clings to her mother’s final directive: use her inheritance to buy a house. It feels like a fresh start, until the rain comes. As water seeps in through the house’s cracks, the line between what is real and what is not begins to blur. Haunted by the stories of her clients and visions of ghosts from her past and present, Eleanor’s reality unravels, and she is forced to reckon with the secrets she’s buried and the dark choices she’s made.
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