Celebrity bookworms are here to stay.
Ever since Oprah Winfrey started her iconic book club in the ’90s, celebrities including Reese Witherspoon, Emma Roberts, Dua Lipa and Jenna Bush Hager have joined the ranks, picking monthly books that skyrocket to the top of the bestseller lists.
“I absolutely love reading, I love the idea of sharing how books make people feel … books are really important to me and if I can share that in some way, then I feel like I’m on the right track,” Lipa told Elle UK in 2023.
Roberts, who started Belletrist with best friend Karah Preiss in 2017, told AP that giving book recommendations brings her “so much joy.”
Witherspoon, meanwhile, built an empire on books with her Hello Sunshine media company, highlighting diverse female authors.
See below for all the September 2026 celebrity book club picks.
Goodreads rating: 4.31/5
“They’re baaaack!” Witherspoon wrote of her newest book club pick, the follow-up to “Big Little Lies.” “‘Big Little Truths’ by @lianemoriarty_official is our September @reesesbookclub pick!”
Goodreads rating: 4.14/5
“My monthly read for September is ‘Martyr!’ by Kaveh Akbar,” Lipa announced. “This novel is profound, sincere, regularly comedic and quite unlike anything I’ve ever read before.”
Goodreads rating: 4.10/5
“Fall is just around the corner, and our September 2026 Read with Jenna pick, ‘The Witches Of Cambridge,’ is the perfect book to usher in the season,” Bush Hager wrote alongside her September read.
“‘The Witches of Cambridge’ is @ahoffmanwriter’s latest novel. Taking place in 1950s Cambridge, Massachusetts, the book follows two young women in the Lilith Society as they come to realize the witch trials of the past may not be as deeply buried as they once believed.”
Goodreads rating: 3.26/5
“M is a famous actor. She has been famous since she was a child. With such fame, her life has the appearance of freedom: people are instantly obliging, spaces are altered to accommodate her, time can be rearranged. Over time she has grown so accustomed to being recognized that not to be recognized comes as a rare surprise,” Belletrist wrote, announcing their latest read.
“This might be why she agrees to let a stranger write her biography, a stranger who knows nothing of M and yet resembles her uncannily. The project they embark upon together sprawls and expands, to the olive groves and holiday beaches where M spends her days, across hotel rooms and bourgeois facades and film sets, through the endless modern cities whose beauty requires great suffering, whose ugliness holds great beauty. We can’t wait to read this with you.”
Goodreads rating: 3.35/5
“This month we’re reading ‘Hello, Limerence’ from @momoyamagucci,” Johnson’s TeaTime Book Club announced.
“An audacious, unhinged debut following the major humiliations and minor triumphs of an overworked, undersexed young woman in Tokyo who must save herself from the hazards of her own lust, obsession, and delusion.”
Goodreads rating: 4.04/5
“For the start to fall, sharing my book club pick for September, Valeria Luiselli’s ‘Beginning Middle End,’” Portman said of her new pick.
“The novel follows a newly divorced writer and her young daughter road trip through Sicily, and what starts as a mother-daughter escape becomes a tender search for their family’s origins across generations and myth. Join me in reading this month’s pick.”
Goodreads rating: 3.96/5
“What if tomorrow was already written, but yesterday was yours to change? September’s #GMABookClub pick is ready to answer that!” “GMA” wrote on Instagram about their September book.
“‘Under Story’ by @chloekbenjamin is a modern epic of science, soul, bravery and redemption that offers a vision of the future that demands we reckon with what we owe to one another, and to the earth itself.”
