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By: Julianne Buonocore Posted on September 3, 2024 September 3, 2024 Updated on September 3, 2024
Reese Witherspoon’s book club list is a celebrity book club list covering a variety of genres that feature strong female leads, including historical fiction, thrillers, romance, literary fiction, contemporary fiction, memoirs, and more.
Here, you’ll not only get the fully updated list. You’ll also benefit from helpful details about the latest pick and top recommendations, plus you’ll get a printable PDF to track your book club reading in this celebrity book club. Let’s get literary!
The Comfort of Crows is a year-long literary exploration of wildlife and plants in the author’s backyard. Each season, from a resourceful crow on New Year’s Day to the bluebirds revisiting their spring nest, paints a portrait of joy and sorrow in the natural world.
Interwoven with these observations are reflections on human life, from grown children returning home during the pandemic to the city’s and countryside’s changing landscapes. It’s all enhanced by fifty-two color artworks by her brother, Billy Renkl.
Fun Facts: This is Reese’s 100th book club pick, and Renkl was her English teacher! Renkl’s prior book was a Read With Jenna pick and was also excellent. (I discussed it on The Today Show with the author.) Her work reads well for fans of Mary Oliver.
Several books have seen massive success through Reese’s book club, such as Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, which has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide, and Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, which has sold more than two million copies. Both were also successfully adapted to film by Reese Witherspoon.
TOP PICKS
Daisy Jones & the Six – (My review: ★★★★★; has an amazing Amazon Prime adaptation by Hello Sunshine) The uber-popular documentary-style book (and Book of the Month’s Book of the Year) about the rise and fall of a 1970s rock band, complete with song lyrics. It is SO unique and works both in print and audio. (I read it both ways.)
From Scratch – (My review: ★★★★★; most popular nonfiction on the list) The tear-jerking memoir of a Black American actress whose Italian husband died of cancer amidst family strife. It’s unforgettable.
The Last Thing He Told Me – (My review: ★★★★★; most popular thriller on the list) My favorite book of 2021. When a husband disappears into thin air, his new wife and teenage daughter must unite to piece together his past. There are twists you won’t see coming. It makes you think, “What would I do?”
The Light We Lost – (My review: ★★★★★) One of the top sellers with readers of The Literary Lifestyle. A fictional story about lost love and the only book that has ever made me sob.
Little Fires Everywhere – (My review: ★★★★★) A book I still think about. This 1990s Ohio drama starts with a family home burned to the ground, then unravels how they got there. Indeed, tensions among several neighbors gradually rose. Their intermingled lives brought out issues of race, class, and motherhood.
The Nightingale – (My review: ★★★★★; most popular historical fiction on the list) The gripping, shocking, emotional, bestselling story of two sisters fighting for survival during World War II in France.
This is How it Always Is – (My review: ★★★★★) The most beloved and heartfelt story of raising a transgender child. Only a mother of a transgender child could write a book that so thoughtfully explores the nature of parenting. (It’s fiction, but you feel the similarities in her real life come straight through the pages.) It’s the kind of book that leaves you forever changed.
Tiny Beautiful Things – (My review: ★★★★★) This was one of the first audiobooks to which I ever listened, and it remains one of the best (out of 75+ per year). In a collection of advice columns, bestselling author Cheryl Strayed offers solutions to the problems of anonymous readers. Her advice is both heartbreaking and heartwarming. It feels so intimate and personal that I can still hear the words in my ears years later.
Tom Lake – (My review: ★★★★★) Ann Patchett delivers her best writing and a crowd-pleaser in this thoughtful tale. It’s about a mother who tells her three adult daughters the story of how she dated a celebrity before he was famous. You’ll savor the sweet ruminations on choices, family, love, and happiness it presents.
Where the Crawdads Sing – (My review: ★★★★☆) If you haven’t read this massively bestselling book yet, you may be the only one! See what the hype is about in this story about a girl living alone in a North Carolina marsh. There’s everything from romance to a murder mystery to keep you intrigued.
Below is the complete (and updated) Reese Witherspoon book club list in the chronological order they were picked. The list starts with the oldest pick and finishes with the most recent Reese’s book club pick.
