Celebrity book club picks for June 2026

by Melissa Albert

🎧 Audiobook

A haunting new novel in which the estranged adult children of a legendary author, written into their dead mother's beloved fantasy series, must contend with the vine-like creep of legacy, memory, and magic.

🌟 From Jenna: “Not since Donna Tartt’s Secret History have I loved a book filled with such magic and mystery as I have Melissa Albert’s The Children.”

by Sophie Chen Keller

🎧 Audiobook

A musical prodigy and his mother spend years searching for each other in this beautiful novel of hope, perseverance, and love.

🌟 From Oprah: "[Little Wonder] will make you consider the extraordinary power and devotion of a mother's love in a whole new way."

by Marie Benedict

🎧 Audiobook

A gripping novel about two trailblazing women on opposite sides of the law—a prosecutor and a madam—who team up to bring down notorious Mob boss Lucky Luciano in 1930s New York.

🌟 From Reese: “Prepare to get lost in a historical fiction about two trailblazing women, from vastly different worlds, who team up to take down a notorious gangster.”

by Annabel Monaghan

🎧 Audiobook

A hardworking single mom returns to her seaside hometown and stumbles into a fake dating situationship with a wealthy, workaholic scion.

🌟 From GMA: “... a swoon-worthy, bingeable love story that will put you in the summer mood.”

by Ama Ofosua Lieb

🎧 Audiobook

When 17-year-old Akoma Addo stumbles into a world of ancient gods and modern magic, she'll have to choose between saving her father... or staying true to everything she's ever believed.

by Claire Fuller

From the celebrated author of Bitter Orange and Swimming Lessons comes a new novel of complicated friendship and the desperate need to belong.

🌟 From Belletrist: “A haunting story that asks how far we’ll go to find a place to belong.”

by Lex Croucher

🎧 Audiobook

An extraordinary dark academia fantasy about dangerous privilege, corrupted power, and two former best friends caught on opposite sides of the secrets rotting at the heart of Britain's most prestigious boarding school.

🌟 From Raegan: “This month’s pick is strange, sharp, and full of messy friendships, bad decisions, and secrets that spiral fast.”

by Emily Haworth-Booth

🎧 Audiobook

The story of a horse and the woman who loves her—a lively first novel of not-daughters and non-mothers; animals and animal bodies; and how we find freedom, care, and community in unexpected places.

🌟 From Dakota: “This one’s for the horse girls.💫🐴💫”

by Willy Vlautin

🎧 Audiobook

The acclaimed Willy Vlautin returns with a heartbreaking and tender novel about two young brothers, the vicissitudes of fate, and unexpected connection—a beautiful and bittersweet portrait that illuminates the power of friendship and how it can save lives in multiple ways.

🌟 From John: “I read this in a day, just in love with the characters, very funny people in some cases, very tragic, very human. It reminded me a lot of one of my favorite movies ‘Joe’ by David Gordon Green. I’m really a sucker for any story of an older person taking a lost kid under their wing.”

by John Steinbeck

🎧 Audiobook

First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California.

by Jonathan Parks-Ramage

🎧 Audiobook

A terrifying climate thriller, a vicious takedown of the uber-wealthy, and a queer family saga that isn't afraid to punch back.

🌟  From RuPaul: "A wealthy, gay couple is throwing a $100,000 baby shower in 2044 Los Angeles. When catastrophe crashes the party, the delusion that money can buy safety shatters spectacularly. Darkly funny, brutally honest, and dripping with drama—this is a fiercely queer thriller that grabs you by the collar and doesn't let go."