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 March celebrity book club picks.
Goodreads rating: 4.09/5
“March is almost here, and so is our @readwithjenna March pick, ‘Wait for Me’ by Amy Jo Burns!” Bush Hager announced alongside her new pick.
“In this novel, we follow two women — a rising country folk star in 1973 named Elle Harlow, whose ascent to fame is as swift as her mysterious disappearance, and Marijohn Shaw, who uncovers Elle’s past twenty years later. This is an emotional mystery about music, legacy, loss, and love — about the power of memory and what connects us across time. I hope you love this one just as much as I do.”
Goodreads rating: 3.92/5
“Introducing ‘Bad Feminist’… Though really, it’s a book that needs no introduction,” Lipa announced of her March book. “My Monthly Read for March is, this time, a collection of essays: ‘Bad Feminist’ by the inimitable Roxane Gay. And if you know Roxane’s work as a writer, professor, editor and social commentator, you can expect more of her signature wit and unflinching honesty in this.
“This book feels like a conversation with your smartest, funniest, wisest friend. If you’re wondering how it’s possible to be a feminist to your core at the same time as loving lyrically problematic songs, reality TV and the occasional questionable romcom, congratulations, you are exactly the kind of ‘bad feminist’ Roxane Gay is talking about.”
Lipa added, “I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on this one. Bring your hot takes, your contradictions, and your best – baddest – feminist rants.”
Goodreads rating: 3.85/5
“Real Housewives…but make it a murder-mystery,” “GMA” wrote, describing their new pick.
“You’ll be dying to read our March #GMABookClub pick #TheSecretLivesOfMurderersWives by @elizabetharnottwrites – a story as much about sisterhood and survival as it is about murder.”
Goodreads rating: 4.26/5
“This month we’re reading ‘Diorama’ by Carol Bensimon. It’s a bit thriller, a bit daddy issues,” Johnson’s TeaTime book club announced.
“In sleek, arresting prose imbued with the suspense-filled edge of a true-crime thriller, Diorama cements Carol Bensimon’s status as one of the most dynamic voices in contemporary Brazilian literature and demonstrates her narrative gifts at their apex. Fusing police procedural, coming-of-age story, and family drama, Diorama is a moving mystery about how we remember what’s passed, endangering our notions of what is or isn’t still alive inside all of us.”
Goodreads rating: 4.11/5
“KCBC’s March Book Club Pick is here… 📚 We’re diving into ‘More Than Enough’ by Anna Quindlen,” Couric announced of her latest read.
“Elin Hilderbrand was raving about this book, so I picked it up and what can I say, I love Anna Quindlen. She’s so prolific. She’s written so much fiction and so much nonfiction. I feel like we’ve aged together in a way. I think you’re going to really love this book,” she said.
Goodreads rating: 4.33/5
“For our March book pick, we couldn’t help but choose another of Rebecca Solnit’s beautiful books, and one that feels especially important right now: ‘The Beginning Comes After the End,’” Portman announced.
“A sequel to her incredible ‘Hope in the Dark,’ Solnit traces the quiet dismantling of an old civilization and the building of a new one rooted in interconnection, antiracism, feminism, and Indigenous wisdom. Even as authoritarianism pushes toward isolation, she shows us the countercurrent already taking shape.”
Oprah Winfrey’s Book Club current pick: “Kin” by Tayari Jones
Goodreads rating: 4.41/5
“My next @oprahsbookclub selection is ‘Kin’ by @tayari Jones. This profoundly eloquent yet familiar novel follows two motherless daughters, Vernice and Annie, who are childhood best friends in Honeysuckle, Louisiana. They grow up together—but as life would have it, they take opposite paths in adulthood, one into polished privilege, the other into a volatile search for belonging, testing what friendship can survive, what mothers leave behind, and how far a woman will go to claim a life of her own,” Winfrey wrote of her first 2026 book pick.
“Reading this book felt like being welcomed to a family reunion with people who have become your kin through blood or life experience. It will live within you long after finish reading it.”
Goodreads rating: 4.44/5
“You think you know the villain… until you hear her side of the story. This March, our @reesesbookclub pick is ‘Lady Tremaine’ by Rachel Hochhauser, a reimagining of Cinderella’s stepmother that explores motherhood, family, and the pressure to be perfect,” Witherspoon captioned her March book announcement.
Goodreads rating: 3.52/5
“Our March Book of the Month is ‘The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts’ by Kim Fu,” Belletrist wrote alongside their new pick. “It’s one of the eeriest, smartest novels we’ve read in years. “From the brilliant mind behind ‘Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century’ comes a spellbinding story of grief, guilt, and the quiet absurdities of modern life.
“This is the kind of book that unsettles you in the best way. Lush, atmospheric, quietly devastating and impossible to put down. We cannot wait to read it alongside you this month and unravel every strange, waterlogged layer together.”
