Celebrity book club picks for February 2026

by Maurene Goo

🎧 Audiobook

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.

💬 From Jenna: "This is a book about fate versus free will, love and commitment, mother and daughters. It has a great love triangle. It's about writing our own story.” 

by Philippa Malicka

🎧 Audiobook

As a sensational celebrity libel trial unfolds, a young woman at the periphery secretly wields the power to make or break the case. But with her own hidden past, will she dare to speak up? Everyone is watching. Only one person knows the truth.

💬 From Reese: “You don’t know what’s real and you don’t know who to trust. I couldn’t put it down.” 

by Leodora Darlington

🎧 Audiobook

Who hasn’t wanted to murder an ex—figuratively, at least? In this explosive debut thriller, a woman’s seemingly perfect romantic life is on the verge of collapse as she uncovers a hidden history surfacing dark secrets that have deadly consequences.

💬 From GMA: “The Exes delivers a thrilling, explosive read with a knife-twist ending you’ll devour.” 

by Melissa de la Cruz

🎧 Audiobook

Raven, Atticus, and Dorian have dreamed of attending Sibylline for as long as they can remember. But when the magical university rejects them, the friends’ plans for a future studying the arcane together begin crashing down. Until they decide to steal an education. Getting jobs on campus, they sneak into lectures and swipe forbidden texts, dodging the administration’s watchful eye. In the quiet of night, in the thrill of secrecy, their magic awakens.

💬 From GMA YA: “This dark academia tale delivers magic, menace, and of course, a dash of romance.” 

by Belle Burden

🎧 Audiobook

In March 2020, Belle Burden was safe and secure with her family at their house on Martha’s Vineyard, navigating the early days of the pandemic together—building fires in the late afternoons, drinking whisky sours, making roast chicken. Then, with no warning or explanation, her 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.

💬 From Belletrist: “This is The Harry Potter of mid-life memoirs. Read it slowly, and savior every bite.” 

by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo

🎧 Audiobook

A blazing new novel exploring nature, family, and violence, set on a hostile and glorious mountainside haunted by transgressions of the past. 

💬 From Dua Lipa: “I should probably warn you: this is a dark book, even by my standards. And yet, there’s also real beauty here. The language is cinematic and poetic, which translator Frank Wynne captures perfectly in English.” 

by Isabel Ibañez

🎧 Audiobook

As a sculptress, Ravenna Maffei has always shaped beauty from stone but she has a terrible secret. Desperate to save her brother, she enters a competition hosted by Florence's most feared immortal family, revealing a dark power in a city where magic is forbidden. Now a captive in the cutthroat city of Florence, Ravenna is forced into a dangerous task where failure meets certain death at the hands of Saturnino dei Luni, the immortal family's mesmerizing but merciless heir. But as he draws her closer, Ravenna realizes the true threat lies beyond Florence's walls.

💬 From Raegan: “A beautifully written story full of emotion, heart, and moments that stay with you long after the last page.” 

by Larissa Pham

🎧 Audiobook

Christine is on tour for her novel, a revenge fantasy based on a real-life relationship gone bad with an older professor ten years prior. Now on the road, Christine is seeking answers—about how to live a good life and what it means to make art—through intimate conversations with strangers, past lovers, and friends. But when the antagonist of her novel, her old painting professor, reaches out in a series of sly communiques after years of silence to tell her he's read her book, Christine must reckon with what it means to lose the reins of a narrative she wrote precisely to maintain control.

💬 From Tea Time: “Why we LOVE Discipline: An intriguing portrait of artistic ambition. A nuanced take on desire and power dynamics. Thriller vibes without the thriller corniness.”

by Maggie O'Farrell

🎧 Audiobook

A deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare’s eleven-year-old son, Hamnet, and the years leading up to the production of his great play. Now a major motion picture starring Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn, directed by Chloé Zhao.

💬 From Kaia: “We are revisiting Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet this month in honor of Chloé Zhao’s new, soul crushing adaptation... It is a really special experience to read the book before you watch the film. Both bring you into the trenches of grief in a way that is so delicate, your heart just kind of keeps breaking over and over.”