Updated October 8, 2026 · Main monthly picks through October 2026, with young-adult selections listed separately
The latest Reese’s Book Club pick is Sophie, Standing There by Meg Mason, selected for October 2026. This archive lists the club’s main selections by year and month, followed by its separate young-adult picks.
Reese Witherspoon launched the club in 2017. Its official selection guide explains that the main monthly books put a woman at the center of the story. The choices span fiction and nonfiction; the club is not limited to one genre.
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2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2023 · 2022 · 2021 · 2020 · 2019 · 2018 · 2017 · Young-adult picks
The tables use the selection month, not the book’s publication date. Some official archive pages have later migration or posting dates, so those dates should not be mistaken for the original club selection. Shortened titles are used where a long subtitle would make the table difficult to scan.
2026 Reese’s Book Club picks
| Month | Book | Author |
|---|---|---|
| January | The First Time I Saw Him | Laura Dave |
| February | In Her Defense | Philippa Malicka |
| March | Lady Tremaine | Rachel Hochhauser |
| April | Into the Blue | Emma Brodie |
| May | The Fine Art of Lying | Alexandra Andrews |
| June | A Pair of Aces | Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray |
| July | A Founding Mother | Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie |
| August | The Wild Beneath | Kelly Anderson |
| September | Big Little Truths | Liane Moriarty |
| October | Sophie, Standing There | Meg Mason |
2025 Reese’s Book Club picks
| Month | Book | Author |
|---|---|---|
| January | The Three Lives of Cate Kay | Kate Fagan |
| February | Isola | Allegra Goodman |
| March | Broken Country | Clare Leslie Hall |
| April | All That Life Can Afford | Emily Everett |
| May | Great Big Beautiful Life | Emily Henry |
| June | The Phoenix Pencil Company | Allison King |
| July | Spectacular Things | Beck Dorey-Stein |
| August | Once Upon a Time in Dollywood | Ashley Jordan |
| September | To the Moon and Back | Eliana Ramage |
| October | Gone Before Goodbye | Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben |
| November | Wild Dark Shore | Charlotte McConaghy |
| December | The Heir Apparent | Rebecca Armitage |
2024 Reese’s Book Club picks
| Month | Book | Author |
|---|---|---|
| January | First Lie Wins | Ashley Elston |
| February | Redwood Court | DéLana R. A. Dameron |
| March | Anita de Monte Laughs Last | Xochitl Gonzalez |
| April | The Most Fun We Ever Had | Claire Lombardo |
| May | How to End a Love Story | Yulin Kuang |
| June | The Unwedding | Ally Condie |
| July | The Cliffs | J. Courtney Sullivan |
| August | Slow Dance | Rainbow Rowell |
| September | The Comfort of Crows | Margaret Renkl |
| October | Society of Lies | Lauren Ling Brown |
| November | We Will Be Jaguars | Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson |
| December | City of Nightbirds | Juhea Kim |
2023 Reese’s Book Club picks
| Month | Book | Author |
|---|---|---|
| January | The House in the Pines | Ana Reyes |
| February | The House of Eve | Sadeqa Johnson |
| March | The Nightingale | Kristin Hannah |
| April | Romantic Comedy | Curtis Sittenfeld |
| May | Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? | Crystal Smith Paul |
| June | Cassandra in Reverse | Holly Smale |
| July | Yellowface | R. F. Kuang |
| August | Tom Lake | Ann Patchett |
| September | Mother-Daughter Murder Night | Nina Simon |
| October | Starling House | Alix E. Harrow |
| November | Maybe Next Time | Cesca Major |
| December | Before We Were Innocent | Ella Berman |
2022 Reese’s Book Club picks
| Month | Book | Author |
|---|---|---|
| January | Honor | Thrity Umrigar |
| February | The Christie Affair | Nina de Gramont |
| March | The Club | Ellery Lloyd |
| April | True Biz | Sara Nović |
| May | The Dictionary of Lost Words | Pip Williams |
| June | Counterfeit | Kirstin Chen |
| July | Honey and Spice | Bolu Babalola |
| August | Wrong Place Wrong Time | Gillian McAllister |
| September | On the Rooftop | Margaret Wilkerson Sexton |
| October | Our Missing Hearts | Celeste Ng |
| November | Tiny Beautiful Things | Cheryl Strayed |
| December | The Marriage Portrait | Maggie O’Farrell |
2021 Reese’s Book Club picks
| Month | Book | Author |
|---|---|---|
| January | Outlawed | Anna North |
| February | The Sanatorium | Sarah Pearse |
| March | Infinite Country | Patricia Engel |
| April | Northern Spy | Flynn Berry |
| May | The Last Thing He Told Me | Laura Dave |
| June | Seven Days in June | Tia Williams |
| July | The Paper Palace | Miranda Cowley Heller |
| August | We Were Never Here | Andrea Bartz |
| September | L.A. Weather | María Amparo Escandón |
| October | Sankofa | Chibundu Onuzo |
| November | The Island of Missing Trees | Elif Shafak |
| December | Lucky | Marissa Stapley |
2020 Reese’s Book Club picks
| Month | Book | Author |
|---|---|---|
| January | Such a Fun Age | Kiley Reid |
| February | The Scent Keeper | Erica Bauermeister |
| March | The Jetsetters | Amanda Eyre Ward |
| April | Untamed | Glennon Doyle |
| May | The Henna Artist | Alka Joshi |
| June | The Guest List | Lucy Foley |
| July | I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness | Austin Channing Brown |
| August | Everything Inside | Edwidge Danticat |
| September | The Last Story of Mina Lee | Nancy Jooyoun Kim |
| October | His Only Wife | Peace Adzo Medie |
| November | Group | Christie Tate |
| December | The Chicken Sisters | KJ Dell’Antonia |
2019 Reese’s Book Club picks
| Month | Book | Author |
|---|---|---|
| January | The Library Book | Susan Orlean |
| February | The Proposal | Jasmine Guillory |
| March | Daisy Jones & The Six | Taylor Jenkins Reid |
| April | The Night Tiger | Yangsze Choo |
| May | From Scratch | Tembi Locke |
| June | The Cactus | Sarah Haywood |
| July | Whisper Network | Chandler Baker |
| August | The Last House Guest | Megan Miranda |
| September | The Secrets We Kept | Lara Prescott |
| October | Fair Play | Eve Rodsky |
| November | The Giver of Stars | Jojo Moyes |
| December | Conviction | Denise Mina |
2018 Reese’s Book Club picks
| Month | Book | Author |
|---|---|---|
| January | Braving the Wilderness | Brené Brown |
| February | The Light We Lost | Jill Santopolo |
| March | Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows | Balli Kaur Jaswal |
| April | Happiness: A Memoir | Heather Harpham |
| May | You Think It, I’ll Say It | Curtis Sittenfeld |
| June | Something in the Water | Catherine Steadman |
| July | Next Year in Havana | Chanel Cleeton |
| August | Still Lives | Maria Hummel |
| September | Where the Crawdads Sing | Delia Owens |
| October | This Is How It Always Is | Laurie Frankel |
| November | The Other Woman | Sandie Jones |
| December | One Day in December | Josie Silver |
2017 Reese’s Book Club picks
| Month | Book | Author |
|---|---|---|
| June | Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine | Gail Honeyman |
| July | The Alice Network | Kate Quinn |
| August | The Lying Game | Ruth Ware |
| September | Little Fires Everywhere | Celeste Ng |
| October | The Rules of Magic | Alice Hoffman |
| November | This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage | Ann Patchett |
| December | The Last Mrs. Parrish | Liv Constantine |
Reese’s Book Club young-adult picks
These selections belong to the club’s separate YA program. Seasonal labels are retained where the club uses them, rather than inventing a main monthly selection slot. They are included in addition to the main tables above.
| Selection period | Book | Author |
|---|---|---|
| August 2020 | You Should See Me in a Crown | Leah Johnson |
| September 2020 | Furia | Yamile Saied Méndez |
| October 2020 | Fable | Adrienne Young |
| November 2020 | A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow | Laura Taylor Namey |
| December 2020 | The Light in Hidden Places | Sharon Cameron |
| January 2021 | You Have a Match | Emma Lord |
| Spring 2021 | Firekeeper’s Daughter | Angeline Boulley |
| Summer 2021 | Tokyo Ever After | Emiko Jean |
| Late summer 2021 | The Downstairs Girl | Stacey Lee |
| Fall 2021 | Within These Wicked Walls | Lauren Blackwood |
| Winter 2022 | Anatomy: A Love Story | Dana Schwartz |
| Summer 2024 | Twelfth Knight | Alexene Farol Follmuth |
| Fall 2024 | Looking for Smoke | K. A. Cobell |
| Winter 2024 | Throwback | Maurene Goo |
| Spring 2025 | Heiress Takes All | Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka |
| Summer 2025 | Stuck Up and Stupid | Angourie Rice and Kate Rice |
How to use this reading list
Start with a genre or author you already enjoy, then use the year tables to explore beyond it. You do not need to read these books in selection order. If you want recommendations rather than the complete archive, see our guide to Reese Witherspoon’s favorite books.
A book-club sticker identifies a selection, not a promise that every reader will love it or that every choice became a bestseller. For a group discussion, check the publisher’s synopsis and any content guidance before choosing the next read.
Common questions
What is the current pick? As of this update, the October 2026 selection is Sophie, Standing There by Meg Mason. The club’s official book page is the source for that selection.
Does the club only choose novels? No. The archive includes memoir, essays and other nonfiction as well as novels. Are the YA choices the same as the main monthly picks? No; this page gives them their own table.
Is this every book Reese has recommended anywhere? No. It is an archive of Reese’s Book Club selections. Recommendations from interviews, social posts or unrelated lists are outside its scope. The official picks archive provides individual selection pages and discussion material.
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another list of female writers:
-Toni Morrison, Beloved
-Margaret Atwood, Cat’s eye
-Pip Williams, The dictionary of lost words
-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
-Zadie Smith, Feel free
Gertrude Stein, The memories of Alice B. Toklas
Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Jenny Hval, Brewery of pearls
H.Richardson, The Getting of Wisdom
Betty Smith, A tree grows in Brooklyn
Fred Vargas, Coule la Seine
Emma Becker, La Maison
Ursula Krechel, Shanghai fern von wo
Annie Ernaux, Les Années
Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch…