Celebrity book club picks for August

As summer winds down, celebrity book clubs are heating up! From Dakota Johnson’s TeaTime Book Club to the Good Morning America Book Club, August’s picks showcase a range of voices and themes including friendship, identity, and the search for belonging.

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Read with Jenna Book Club

My Other Heart by Emma Nanami Strenner
🎧 Audiobook

A missing child, two girls in search of their true identities—a stunning novel of mothers, daughters, and best friends.

“The emotional range is wide, from the uncertainties of first love to the heartbreak of long-held secrets. Readers will be captivated by Strenner's elegant prose and the tender resilience of her characters, making this an unforgettable coming-of-age story.” —Booklist

Oprah’s Book Club

Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
🎧 Audiobook

Oprah is excited about this one! She raves, “This book is written by the one and only Richard Russo, Pulitzer Price-winning author of Empire Falls and Nobody's Fool. He is a master at capturing the ordinary moments that reveal some of the deepest truths, especially in small town novels.”

Lucy, a lifelong optimist from Thomaston, New York, is reflecting on his family's legacy and complicated relationships as he prepares to pass down the convenience store empire built by his shrewd mother. While writing a history of his hometown and family, he revisits his mysterious friendship with Noonan, a childhood rival now living in Venice. Their intertwined stories uncover surprising truths about identity, loyalty, and the weight of the past.

Reese’s Book Club

Once Upon a Time in Dollywood by Ashley Jordan
🎧 Audiobook

A playwright must grapple with her difficult year and writer’s block while falling for the single dad living next door in this emotional debut novel from Ashley Jordan.

Good Morning America Book Club

Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson
🎧 Audiobook

After a violent attack leaves Jet Mason with a fatal head injury and just seven days to live, she refuses risky surgery to spend her final days uncovering the truth. As suspicion falls on those closest to her, Jet teams up with childhood friend Billy to solve her own attempted murder before time runs out. What begins as a race against death becomes a powerful reckoning with her past—and those who might want her gone.

Good Morning America Young Adult Book Club

Immortal Consequences by I. V. Marie
🎧 Audiobook

Six students compete to change their fate at a darkly enchanted boarding school in purgatory where graduation is the only escape—and love can cross the boundaries between life and death.

📚 Book One of The Souls of Blackwood Academy series

Belletrist (Emma Roberts & Karah Priess)

How to Lose Your Mother by Molly Jong-Fast
🎧 Audiobook

From the political writer and podcaster, a ferociously honest and disarmingly funny memoir about her elusive mother’s encroaching dementia and a reckoning with her complicated childhood.

Service95 Book Club (Dua Lipa)

This House of Grief by Helen Garner

On the evening of Father’s Day, 2005, separated husband Robert Farquharson was driving his three young sons back to their mom’s house when the car veered off the road and plunged into a dam. Farquharson survived the crash, but his boys drowned. Was this a tragic accident, or an act of revenge? The court case became Helen Garner's obsession. She followed it on its protracted course until the final verdict.

Read with Raegan

The Rabbit Club by Christopher J. Yates
🎧 Audiobook

The author of Black Chalk returns with a mesmerizing new novel about a dangerous secret society at Oxford University, and the first-year Literature student whose life begins to unravel in its shadow.

A mind-bending literary house of mirrors, replete with bookish allusions and Easter eggs ranging from Brideshead Revisited to King Lear, this is an arresting work of dark academia.

TeaTime Book Club with Dakota Johnson

Make Your Way Home: Stories by Carrie R. Moore
🎧 Audiobook

A debut collection of stories set across the American South, featuring characters who struggle to find love and belonging in the wake of painful histories. How can you love where you come from, even when home doesn't love you back?

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