Celebrity Book Club Picks for August 2025 #celebritybookclubs

Are you wondering what your favourite Celebrity Book Club is reading this month? Do you enjoy book communities as a way to read along with others? If so, each of these celebrity book clubs is internet-based and open to all who follow. So if you’re like me and always on the lookout for the next great read, you will now find these picks all in one spot – That Happy Reader’s blog! Without further ado, let me introduce you to Celebrity Book Club Picks for August 2025. Click on the book’s cover to add it to your Goodreads shelf!

Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club (Hello Sunshine)’s pick for August 2025:

Founded in 2017, Hello Sunshine always chooses books with women at the centre of the story. Their website notes “We make our choices thoughtfully and look for ways to deepen our connection to books, authors and ourselves”.  This book club chose “Once Upon A Time In Dollywood” by Ashley Jordan as their August 2025 pick.

Summary:

In this emotional debut by Ashley Jordan, rising playwright Eve Ambroise escapes a crumbling personal life by retreating to the Tennessee mountains, posing as a writer on retreat while secretly battling heartbreak and creative burnout. Her plans for solitude unravel when she meets Jamie Gallagher, a single dad navigating life after a tough custody battle. Though neither is looking for love, their connection deepens from a fling into something real—forcing Eve to confront her fears of vulnerability and loss. As their lives slowly align like the fireflies around them, they must decide whether to protect their hearts or take a chance on a future together.

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Good Morning America’s Book Club’s pick:

The GMA Book Club is officially called “Cover to Cover” and was started in the Fall of 2019. Their selections highlight diversity and books are chosen from both fiction and non-fiction genres. The book club chose “Not Quite Dead Yet” by Holly Jackson as their August 2025 pick.

Summary:

Jet Mason has always believed she had time—until she’s violently attacked on Halloween night and left with a fatal head injury that will kill her within seven days. The 27-year-old heiress from Woodstock, Vermont, suddenly sees everyone around her—family, exes, even old friends—as suspects. As her condition worsens, Jet teams up with her childhood friend Billy to do the one thing she’s never done before: finish something. She’s going to solve her own murder—before time runs out.

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Read With Jenna (Jenna Bush Hager)’s pick:

In March 2019, the former First Daughter announced her book club on the Today show.  Each month she chooses a book that is sure to generate discussion.  Jenna chose “My Other Heart” by Emma Nahami Strenner as her August 2025 pick.

Summary:

In 1998, Mimi Truong’s toddler daughter vanishes at the Philadelphia airport. Seventeen years later, best friends Kit and Sabrina are preparing for college in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania. Kit is headed to Tokyo to explore her Japanese roots, while Sabrina, unable to afford a trip to China, finds guidance from a bold new mentor who pushes her to confront long-buried questions about her identity. As Mimi follows a new lead back to Philadelphia, the lives of all three women converge in a powerful, unforgettable story of identity, belonging, and the unbreakable bonds between mothers, daughters, and best friends.

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Oprah’s Book Club:

Oprah Winfrey started this book club in 1996 as a segment on her TV show. Many obscure titles have risen to bestseller status as a result of her picks. Oprah’s latest pick is “Bridge of Signs” by Richard Russo.

Summary:

Sixty-year-old Lucy has spent his entire life in Thomaston, New York, clinging to the optimism he inherited from his late father despite a complicated relationship with his sharp, formidable mother. Her savvy helped build the family’s small empire of convenience stores, now ready to be passed down. As Lucy writes a history of his hometown and family, he reflects on his lifelong friendship with Noonan—his oldest friend and former rival in love—who now lives a very different life in Venice. Their intertwined stories, along with that of Lucy’s wife Sarah, unfold in unexpected, revealing ways as past and present collide.

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Other Recent Celebrity Book Club Selections:

July 2025

June 2025

May 2025

Do any of these books appeal to you?  I’m particularly drawn to Once Upon A Time in Dollywood and Not Quite Dead Yet and hope to read both of these. Come back next month as I let you know what the August picks are!