Celebrity book club picks for October 2025

As we (finally) head into fall, that means cozy reading season is in full swing. And there are plenty of book club picks to give you some reading material on those rainy nights or lazy days. From family dramas to thrillers to literary fiction, you can find your favorite genre or try something new with this month’s picks.

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Read With Jenna

The Irish Goodbye by Heather Aimee O’Neill
🎧 Audiobook

The October Read With Jenna book club pick is a perfect fall read "about a family filled with secrets," Jenna Bush Hager says. This novel follows three sisters as they return home for Thanksgiving, where they have to confront the effects of an accident that haunts their youth—and their adult lives.

If you loved The Irish Goodbye or need some suggestions while you wait for your copy, try these:

📚 Hello, Beautiful by Ann Napolitano – A story about sisterhood and the struggles of marriage and grief.
📚 The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo – A rich family saga full of buried secrets, strained relationships, and a longing to belong.
📚 The Push by Ashley Audrain – A psychological drama about a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing she hoped for, and what truly makes or breaks families.
📚 Sandwich by Catherine Newman – A moving story about family, marriage, and what happens when life doesn’t go as planned.

Oprah's Book Club

A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar
🎧 Audiobook

This electrifying new novel is set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, in which two families seeking to protect their children must battle each other. A piercing and propulsive tour de force.

From Oprah: “Megha Majumdar is wise beyond her years. She's able to bring in cultural conflicts and interweave the way people live and relate to each other in such a way that leaves us spellbound.”

Reese’s Book Club

Gone Before Goodbye by Harlan Coben and Reese Witherspoon
🎧 Audiobook

Reese has foregone an October book club pick this month to go on tour with Harlan Coben to promote their new book, Gone Before Goodbye.

From Reese: “As some of you know, I’ve teamed up with my very, very good friend Harlan Coben to write a brand-new thriller called Gone Before Goodbye and it is coming out October 14th. So instead of picking a book, I thought, ‘Why don’t I take everybody on a book tour?’ We worked so hard on it, and I want to tell you what my inspirations were, where I came up with this idea, how Harlan and I work together.”

Good Morning America Book Club

Twice by Mitch Albom
🎧 Audiobook

From GMA: “Albom’s latest novel follows Alfie Logan, an elderly man arrested for allegedly cheating at a casino. During a detective’s interrogation, Alfie confesses his life story, including his ability to undo and relive any moment in his life. First Alfie uses this for harmless teenage thrills and mistakes, but as he grows, he turns toward love and learns that if he rewinds a relationship, the person he loves can no longer love him in return.”

Good Morning America YA Book Club

Fake Skating by Lynn Painter
🎧 Audiobook

From GMA: “A heartfelt rom-com about childhood sweethearts who reconnect after a frosty reunion. From friends-to-enemies-to-lovers, this book is sure to melt the ice.”

Belletrist

Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood
🎧 Audiobook

Amid the pandemic, one woman is trying to keep the pieces of her life together. First, of her family, who has suffered a devastating loss and second, of her mind, which is constantly misfiring from a mystifying disease. Will There Ever Be Another You is one woman’s story of her attempt to create a new way of thinking and what keeps us alive during times of disorientation and loss.

Described as “witty, lyrical, and sometimes bonkers” (NY Times) this could be the book that breaks you out of a slump.

Service95 Book Club

Flesh by David Szalay
🎧 Audiobook

From Dua Lipa: “Flesh chronicles a man at odds with himself. Shadowed by the specter of past tragedy and the apathy of modernity, the tension between Istvan and all that alienates him hurtles forward until sudden tragedy strikes again and throws life as he knows it into jeopardy again. Flesh deals with unresolved trauma and its aftermath amid the violence of Europe with insight and startling humanity.”

Read with Raegan

The Once and Future Me by Melissa Pace

Dark Matter meets Girl, Interrupted in this gripping psychological thriller about a young woman teetering on the edge of reality.

From Raegan: “This thriller had me hooked from the first page. Full of secrets and twists, it will keep you guessing until the very end.”

Tea Time Book Club 

The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy
🎧 Audiobook

From Tea Time Book Club: “National Book Award finalist Angela Flourney writes an era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their 20-year friendship, as they move through the precarious period between young adult and midlife. As these women move from the 2000’s into the late 2020’s they must figure out what they mean to one another while dealing with political upheaval, economic instability, and the increasing hostility in America.”

Library Science Book Club

The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig

From Library Science: “Christine toils in a post office after World War I in Austria, a country plagued by unemployment. A telegram unexpectedly arrives from her rich aunt, inviting her to the Swiss Alps, where she is swept up into a world of wealth and desire. First published in 1982, long after the death of Zweig, and translated to English in 2008, this book is ultimately about ‘sympathizing with human beings.’ Adding that, ‘somehow, despite being written by a man in the 1930s, it feels more relatable than ever.’”

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