Celebrity book club picks for September

September’s celebrity book club picks have been announced! If you’re a fan of historical fiction, thrillers, YA romance, or short stories, you’re sure to find a book on this list that you’ll love. One of my favorite things about celebrity book clubs is that they’re really good at picking titles that appeal to all sorts of readers. So even if these genres aren’t your typical bread and butter, make sure you keep reading—you never know when you’ll come across a book that makes you fall in love with something new!

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Read with Jenna

Buckeye by Patrick Ryan
🎧 Audiobook

This historical fiction is set in a small town in Ohio from the start of World War II to the end of the Vietnam War. This story follows two families and how their lives change as America itself changes. In conversation with the author, Jenna said this book made her so emotional and that she wanted to read it again as soon as she finished it.

Oprah's Book Club

All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert
🎧 Audiobook

Oprah says, "It's a journey of forgiveness and healing that could only be written by a writer as exceptional as this one." In her first nonfiction book in a decade, Elizabeth Gilbert taught millions of readers to live authentically (Eat, Pray, Love) and creatively (Big Magic) shows how to break free. Her landmark memoir will resonate with anyone who has ever been captive to love—or to any other passion, substance, or craving—and who yearns, at long last, for liberation.

Reese’s Book Club

To the Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage
🎧 Audiobook

Reese's Book Club pick this month is a breathtaking debut about family, identity, and love across generations. Steph Harper is obsessed with becoming the first Cherokee astronaut and she will let nothing get in the way of pursuing that dream, not even the relationships that matter the most to her. This novel spans three decades, chronicling Steph’s turbulent journey and what lengths she’ll go to for her dream.

Good Morning America Book Club

The Book of Lost Hours by Hayley Gelfuso
🎧 Audiobook

This debut novel follows two remarkable women navigating postwar and Cold War-era America and the mysterious time space, a library filled with books containing the memories of those who bore witness to history. The time space can only be accessed by specially made watches that are mostly possessed by government agents who are entering the time space to rewrite history. Eleven-year-old Lisavet Levy has been trapped in the time space for decades, and she sets about saving the scraps of history the government has destroyed in her own volume of history.

Good Morning America YA Book Club

Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley
🎧 Audiobook

The GMA YA Book Club pick this month is a twisty thriller. Ever since Lucy’s father died five years ago, she’s been on the run. But when Mr. Jameson shows up with a special interest in her case, she starts to wonder if hiding from the past will really keep her safe. She learns she has a family, but she’s being followed, and the past is coming for revenge.

Belletrist

Finding Grace by Loretta Rothschild
🎧 Audiobook

Honor seems to have everything. She adores her daughter and loves her charming husband. Honor’s longing for another baby threatens to eclipse all of it, until a shocking twist changes their lives forever. Years later, Tom makes a decision that ripples through their families, leaving two women’s paths intertwined.

Service95 Book Club

The Trees by Percival Everett
🎧 Audiobook

This month, Dua Lipa’s book club is reading this genre-defying novel that confronts the brutal legacy of racial violence in the United States. Detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation (MBI) arrive in a small town to investigate a series of brutal murders. At each crime scene, they discover a second dead body of a man who resembles Emmett Till. As the MIB detectives realize that these murders are taking place across the country, they realize something truly strange is afoot.

Read with Raegan

By Invitation Only by Alexandra Brown Chang
🎧 Audiobook

Raegan always has fabulous YA choices for her book club and this month is no exception! This romance follows a hard-working teen and a nepo baby who collide at the world’s most high-profile debutante ball. In competition for the crown, these girls have every reason to clash but they might just need each other.

Tea Time Book Club (Dakota Johnson)

The Dilemmas of Working Women by Fumio Yamamoto
🎧 Audiobook

This collection of five short stories was originally published in Japan in 2000 and became a bestselling sensation! These stories spotlight clear-eyed and “difficult” women who are navigating their identities as workers and women in contemporary Japan. Twenty-five years after it was first published, it’s now been published for the first time outside of Asia and in English!

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