Want to join the best celebrity book clubs? Here are the most popular January 2024 celebrity book club picks. I’ll find all the most exciting book club selections for you each month. Let’s read together like a celeb!
This post contains affiliate links. Should a purchase be made, Love Beauty Thrive may receive a small commission at no added cost to you. Affiliate disclosure is available here. Thank you.
Must Read January 2024 Celebrity Book Club Picks
Hello, January! Are you ready to read along with your favourite celebs this month? I am!
Do you want to know all the latest celebrity book club picks of the month? I’m sharing them with you in this post today. If you don’t want any spoilers, this is your heads up that all the most popular January 2024 celebrity book club picks are about to be revealed in detail below! As always, these latest picks are all exciting new books that I just can’t wait to read. What about you?
If you’re new to Love Beauty Thrive, here’s the deal on celebrity book clubs! Each month, I’ll share with you the most popular celebrity book club selections and some thoughts on each. You’ll find all the hottest celebrity book club books listed here – all together in one post – so you don’t have to search around to discover what you’d like to read next. Want to read like a celeb? You’ll find out exactly how to do that here!
As monthly selections are announced, I’ll list all the most popular celebrity book club picks that the reading community can’t stop talking about. Are there any books (or book clubs) that I forgot to include? Be sure to let me know in the comments below! I’d really love to include them in the discussion.
Each month, I’ll also always share with you the highly anticipated Book of the Month picks too. The January 2024 Book of the Month selections were absolutely outstanding. If you’re a book lover, don’t forget to check for our exciting Book of the Month posts at the beginning of each month.
As with all my book lists, my celebrity book club list might look a little different than others – our reading interests are all different! But I always try my best to include a variety of titles, perspectives and suggestions for both an interesting and diverse selection of amazing new books. Which celebrity book club books will you be reading?
Are you ready for some of the BEST suggestions on what to read this month? Let’s get to it!
WHICH CELEBRITY BOOK CLUBS DO YOU FOLLOW?
Here are the celebrity book clubs followed monthly at Love Beauty Thrive.
- Reese’s Book Club
- Oprah’s Book Club
- Read with Jenna Book Club
- Good Morning America Book Club
- Belletrist Book Club (Emma Roberts)
- The Happy Place Reads (JoAnna Garcia Swisher)
- Good Housekeeping Book Club (GH Book Club)
Love Beauty Thrive also looks forward to seeing Sarah Jessica Parker’s frequent book recommendations on Instagram, but doesn’t officially follow her suggestions as a monthly celebrity book club.
And with that, let’s get to the January 2024 celebrity book club picks.
INCREDIBLE JANUARY 2024 CELEBRITY BOOK CLUB PICKS
Are you ready to read like a celebrity? Here are the hottest January 2024 celebrity book club picks to get your hands on. We really can’t wait!
Of course, we’ll start with one of our top favourite celebrity book clubs, Reese’s Book Club.
REESE’S BOOK CLUB
Reese’s Book Club is Reese Witherspoon’s monthly book club with her production company, Hello Sunshine. Reese’s Book Club reads books of every genre with women at the center of the story.
We are Reese’s Book Club. The seekers of joy, the lovers of story, the keepers of fictive kin; and through The Readership we dive deeper, go further, and give more to co-author louder, greater, prouder, a truer, newer narrative for women.
Reese’s Book Club (2023)
If you’d like to learn more about how Reese’s Book Club elevates female voices and stories (and all about why it’s a must read book club for women), be sure to check out our recent post, Reese Witherspoon Book Club: Women’s Literary Empowerment.
Visit Reese’s Book Club here to read with Reese.
REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK (JANUARY 2024)
Reese’s Book Club January 2024 pick is First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston.
First Lie Wins
By Ashley Elston
Publication Date: January 2, 2024
BUY ON AMAZON
A Reese’s Book Club pick and instant #1 New York Times bestseller, this novel by Ashley Elston is a fast-paced, suspenseful thriller that will keep you guessing the whole way through. Here is the publisher’s book description of First Lie Wins.
Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist.
First Lie Wins (2024)
The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she’s given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle is the job.
Evie isn’t privy to Mr. Smith’s real identity, but she knows this job will be different. Ryan has gotten under her skin, and she’s starting to envision a different sort of life for herself. But Evie can’t make any mistakes–especially after what happened last time.
Because the one thing she’s worked her entire life to keep clean, the one identity she could always go back to—her real identity—just walked right into this town. Evie Porter must stay one step ahead of her past while making sure there’s still a future in front of her. The stakes couldn’t be higher–but then, Evie has always liked a challenge.
Read more about First Lie Wins on Goodreads.
OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB
Oprah’s Book Club is Oprah Winfrey’s book club. Since the 1990’s, it’s been one of the most famous book clubs in the world. It makes frequent selections (but not on a regular monthly schedule). Oprah’s Book Club reads books that often focus on Black voices.
Visit Oprah’s Book Club here to read with Oprah.
OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK (CURRENT)
The current pick for Oprah’s Book Club is Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward (selected in mid-October 2023).
Let Us Descend
By Jesmyn Ward
Publication Date: October 24, 2023
BUY ON AMAZON
An Oprah’s Book Club pick, instant New York Times bestseller and Amazon editors’ pick in best literature and fiction, this new release is written by Jesmyn Ward (two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction and MacArthur Fellow). A Book of the Month selection (November 2023) described as a “haunting masterpiece” – a Goodreads Choice Award nominee for best historical fiction too – here is the publisher’s book description of Let Us Descend.
“‘Let us descend,’ the poet now began, ‘and enter this blind world.’” —Inferno, Dante Alighieri
Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation.
Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader’s guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Ward leads readers through the descent, this, her fourth novel, is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation.
From one of the most singularly brilliant and beloved writers of her generation, this miracle of a novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very land—the rich but unforgiving forests, swamps, and rivers of the American South. Let Us Descend is Jesmyn Ward’s most magnificent novel yet, a masterwork for the ages.
Let Us Descend (2023)
Read more about Let Us Descend on Goodreads.
Want more from Oprah’s Book Club? Check out Oprah’s brand new book podcast. You can find out everything you need to know about Oprah’s new book podcast and how to listen, right here. And after that, you’ll also want to read the seven soulful books on Oprah’s bookshelf.
READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB
Read with Jenna is the TODAY show’s book club with Jenna Bush Hagar. It typically reads books from Book of the Month selections that often emphasize diversity. Read with Jenna invites viewers to read and discuss monthly picks together.
Visit the Read with Jenna book club here to read with Jenna Bush Hagar.
READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK (JANUARY 2024)
The Read with Jenna book club January 2024 pick is The Waters by Bonnie Jo Campbell.
The Waters
By Bonnie Jo Campbell
Publication Date: January 9, 2024
BUY ON AMAZON
A TODAY Show “Read with Jenna” book club pick (and one of Oprah Daily’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024), this novel by Bonnie Jo Campbell is described as a mesmerizing story – one that readers of the worldwide sensation Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens are going to love. Here is the publisher’s book description of The Waters.
A master of rural noir returns with a fierce, mesmerizing novel about exceptional women and the soul of a small town.
On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp―an area known as “The Waters” to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan―herbalist and eccentric Hermine “Herself” Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. As stubborn as her tonics are powerful, Herself inspires reverence and fear in the people of Whiteheart, and even in her own three estranged daughters. The youngest―the beautiful, inscrutable, and lazy Rose Thorn―has left her own daughter, eleven-year-old Dorothy “Donkey” Zook, to grow up wild.
Donkey spends her days searching for truths in the lush landscape and in her math books, waiting for her wayward mother and longing for a father, unaware that family secrets, passionate love, and violent men will flood through the swamp and upend her idyllic childhood. Rage simmers below the surface of this divided community, and those on both sides of the divide have closed their doors against the enemy. The only bridge across the waters is Rose Thorn.
With a “ruthless and precise eye for the details of the physical world” (Jane Smiley, New York Times Book Review), Bonnie Jo Campbell presents an elegant antidote to the dark side of masculinity, celebrating the resilience of nature and the brutality and sweetness of rural life.
The Waters (2024)
Read more about The Waters on Goodreads.
Want more from the Read with Jenna TODAY Show Book Club? Check out the brand new Read with Jenna Podcast. You can find out everything you need to know about the Read with Jenna Podcast and how to listen, right here.
GMA BOOK CLUB
The GMA Book Club is the Good Morning America book club. It “showcases book picks from a wide range of compelling authors.” The GMA Book Club reads discussion worthy books from a variety of different perspectives.
Visit the GMA Book Club here to read with Good Morning America.
GMA BOOK CLUB PICK (JANUARY 2024)
The GMA Book Club January 2024 pick is The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan.
The Storm We Made
By Vanessa Chan
Publication Date: January 2, 2024
BUY ON AMAZON
A GMA Book Club pick and national bestseller, this novel by Vanessa Chan is also a December 2023 Book of the Month pick. Described as spellbinding historical fiction, here is the publisher’s book description of The Storm We Made.
In this spellbinding novel, an ordinary housewife becomes an unlikely spy—and her dark secrets will test even the most unbreakable ties.
Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara’s family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her eldest daughter Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day.
Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault; and that her family must never learn the truth.
A decade prior, Cecily had been desperate to be more than a housewife to a low-level bureaucrat in British-colonized Malaya. A chance meeting with the charismatic General Fujiwara lured her into a life of espionage, pursuing dreams of an “Asia for Asians.” Instead, Cecily helped usher in an even more brutal occupation by the Japanese. Ten years later as the war reaches its apex, her actions have caught up with her. Now her family is on the brink of destruction—and she will do anything to save them.
Spanning years of pain and triumph, told from the perspectives of four unforgettable characters, The Storm We Made is a dazzling saga about the horrors of war; the fraught relationships between the colonized and their oppressors, and the ambiguity of right and wrong when survival is at stake.
The Storm We Made (2023)
Read more about The Storm We Made on Goodreads.
BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB
Belletrist is the book club of Emma Roberts and Karah Preiss. “Belletrist celebrates great books and the people who read them.” Belletrist reads a new book every month, diving deep into the story, characters, writing process and how the book came to life, with the author.
You don’t have to be the best reader or read the most—you just need that sense of curiosity and to want to be introduced to new stories that you might not have read otherwise.
Emma Roberts
Visit the Belletrist website here to read with Emma and Karah.
BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK (JANUARY 2024)
The Belletrist Book Club January 2024 pick is Holding Pattern by Jenny Xie.
Holding Pattern
By Jenny Xie
Publication Date: June 20, 2023
BUY ON AMAZON
A Belletrist book club pick, this novel by Jenny Xie is an Amazon editors’ pick in best in best literature and fiction, and was named a best book of the year by Time, Vogue, Good Housekeeping and others. Described as an exquisite read, here is the publisher’s book description of Holding Pattern.
Kathleen Cheng has blown up her life. She’s gone through a humiliating breakup, dropped out of her graduate program, and left everything behind. Now she’s back in her childhood home in Oakland, wondering what’s next.
To her surprise, her mother isn’t the same person Kathleen remembers. No longer depressed or desperate to return to China, the new Marissa Cheng is sporty, perky, and has been transformed by love. Kathleen thought she’d be planning her own wedding, but instead finds herself helping her mother plan hers—to a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur.
Grasping for direction, Kathleen takes a job at a start-up that specializes in an unconventional form of therapy based on touch. While she negotiates new ideas about intimacy and connection, an unforeseen attachment to someone at work pushes her to rethink her relationships—especially the one with Marissa. Will they succeed in seeing each other anew, adult to adult?
As they peel back the layers of their history—the old wounds, cultural barriers, and complex affection—they must come to a new understanding of how they can propel each other forward, and what they’ve done to hold each other back. Brilliantly observant, tender, and warm, Holding Pattern is a hopeful novel about immigration and belonging, mother-daughter relationships, and the many ways we learn to hold each other.
Holding Pattern (2023)
Read more about Holding Pattern on Goodreads.
THE HAPPY PLACE READS BOOK CLUB
The Happy Place Reads (THP Reads) is JoAnna Garcia Swisher’s book club with her lifestyle blog, The Happy Place. JoAnna is an actress known for her role of Maddie Townsend on the hit Netflix series Sweet Magnolias. THP Reads selects monthly entertaining and moving books that teach readers how to look at themselves and the world in new ways.
Visit The Happy Place website here to read with JoAnna.
THP READS BOOK CLUB PICK (JANUARY 2024)
The Happy Place Reads January 2024 book pick is When We Were Enemies by Emily Bleeker.
When We Were Enemies
By Emily Bleeker
Publication Date: December 1, 2023
BUY ON AMAZON
A THP Reads book club picks, When We Were Enemies is written by bestselling author Emily Bleeker. It’s romantic historical fiction, and a family drama, that will totally sweep readers away. Here is the publisher’s book description of When We Were Enemies.
Two women, generations apart, in the spotlight. A powerful novel about family secrets, devastating choices, and hope for the future by the bestselling author of When I’m Gone.
Camera-shy Elise Branson is different from the other women in her maternal line. Her mother is an award-winning actress. Her late grandmother, Vivian Snow, is a beloved Hollywood icon. But when Elise’s upcoming wedding coincides with a documentary being made about Vivian, Elise can’t escape the camera’s gaze. And neither can her grandmother, even in death.
It’s 1943 when Vivian, a small-town Indiana girl, lends her home front support to the war effort. As a translator in the nearby Italian POW camp, she’s invaluable. As a celebrated singer for the USO, she lifts men’s spirits and falls in love with a soldier. But behind this all-American love story is a shocking secret―one that is vital to keep buried if Vivian is to achieve the fame and fortune she covets.
For Elise and Vivian, what’s hidden―and what’s exposed―threatens to unravel their lives. The heart-wrenching choices they must make will change them both forever.
When We Were Enemies (2023)
Read more about When We Were Enemies on Goodreads.
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BOOK CLUB
The GH Book Club is the Good Housekeeping book club. It “focuses solely on reads that will make you feel great, delivering a jolt of positivity each month with an uplifting, engrossing page-turner that will engage your mind and make you smile.” The GH Book Club is every reader’s “feel-good” destination for both fiction and nonfiction.
Visit the GH Book Club here to read with Good Housekeeping.
GH BOOK CLUB PICK (JANUARY 2024)
The GH Book Club January 2024 pick is The Expectant Detectives: A Mystery by Kat Ailes.
The Expectant Detectives: A Mystery
By Kat Ailes
Publication Date: January 9, 2024
BUY ON AMAZON
A GH Book Club pick, this novel is written by Kat Ailes and is Book 1 of 2 of the Expectant Detectives Mysteries series. It is an Amazon editors’ pick in best mystery, thriller and suspense. Described as “fresh, funny and heartfelt,” here is the publisher’s book description of The Expectant Detectives.
Can they solve the mother of all murders?
For Alice and her partner Joe, moving to the sleepy village of Penton is a chance to embrace country life and prepare for the birth of their first child. He can take up woodwork; maybe she’ll learn to make jam? But the rural idyll they’d hoped for doesn’t quite pan out when a dead body is discovered at their local prenatal class, and they find themselves suspects in a murder investigation.
With a cloud of suspicion hanging over the heads of the whole group, Alice and her new-found pregnant friends set out to solve the mystery and clear their names, with the help of her troublesome dog, Helen. However, there are more secrets and tensions in the heart of Penton than first meet the eye. Between the discovery of a shady commune up in the woods, the unearthing of a mysterious death years earlier, and the near-tragic poisoning of Helen, Alice is soon in way over her head.
The Expectant Detectives (2024)
Read more about The Expectant Detectives on Goodreads.
JANUARY 2024 CELEBRITY BOOK CLUB PICKS, WHAT WILL YOU READ?
What celebrity book club picks will you be reading this month? I hope this post helps you find some amazing new books to read! All the bestselling January 2024 celebrity book club picks look so great, I can’t decide which to read first.
Are there any other celebrity book clubs I need to follow? Let me know in the comments below, I always love to discover new book clubs and fantastic books to read!
FOLLOW ON PINTEREST
We love connecting with you, and we love Pinterest. You can follow Love Beauty Thrive on Pinterest here. Save this post for later using this pin. As always, thanks so much for reading, and for all the love!
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
Incredible January 2024 Book of the Month Picks
Amazing December 2023 Celebrity Book Club Picks
Fantastic December 2023 Book of the Month Picks
Incredible November 2023 Celebrity Book Club Picks
Amazing November 2023 Book of the Month Picks
Read with Jenna Podcast: Everything You Need to Know
Must Read October 2023 Celebrity Book Club Picks
Thrilling October 2023 Book of the Month Picks
7 Great September 2023 Celebrity Book Club Picks
5 Amazing September 2023 Book of the Month Picks
Extraordinary August 2023 Celebrity Book Club Picks
Exceptional August 2023 Book of the Month Picks
