Celebrity Book Club Picks for September 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 September 2025. Click on the book’s cover to add it to your Goodreads shelf!

Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club (Hello Sunshine)’s pick for September 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 “To The Moon and Back” by Eliana Ramage as their September 2025 pick.

Summary:

To the Moon and Back follows Steph Harper, a young Cherokee woman determined to become the first astronaut from her Nation, whose relentless ambition both inspires and fractures the relationships that define her life. After her mother Hannah escapes an abusive marriage and brings Steph and her sister Kayla to Cherokee Nation in search of belonging, Steph resolves to aim higher—literally to the moon—devoting decades to the grueling pursuit of her dream. Spanning continents and thirty years, the novel also traces the lives of Kayla, who transforms from artist to Indigenous social media influencer, Della Owens, Steph’s college girlfriend fighting to reclaim her heritage after being separated from her Cherokee family, and Hannah herself, whose pride in her children masks long-buried secrets. Woven together in an intricate tapestry, their stories explore ambition, identity, and the fragile ties of love and family, as Steph’s drive for space tests the very bonds meant to anchor her.

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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 “The Book of Lost Hours” by Hayley Gelfuso as their September 2025 pick.

Summary:

Spanning from pre-WWII Germany to Cold War–era America, The Book of Lost Hours is a sweeping tale of memory, time, and love that begins when eleven-year-old Lisavet Levy is hidden during Kristallnacht in a mysterious library known as the time space, where the memories of history are stored within books. Trapped there after her father never returns, Lisavet grows up wandering through the past and discovers that timekeepers are destroying memories to rewrite history, setting her on a mission to preserve what was lost—until she encounters Ernest Duquesne, an American timekeeper determined to stop her. Years later in 1965 Boston, Ernest’s niece Amelia is drawn into the same world after his death, recruited by a CIA program that seeks to control access to the time space, only to uncover truths far more complicated than she imagined. Lyrical and cinematic, this unforgettable novel explores the power of memory, the fragility of history, and the sacrifices we make for those we love.

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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 “Buckeye” by Patrick Ryan as her September 2025 pick.

Summary:

Buckeye is a sweeping yet intimate novel set in the small town of Bonhomie, Ohio, where a fleeting moment of passion at the end of World War II entwines the lives of two families for generations. When Cal Jenkins, scarred by his inability to serve, shares a secret encounter with Margaret Salt, who is hiding her own past, the repercussions ripple outward—affecting Cal’s wife Becky, a spiritual medium who speaks with the dead, and Margaret’s husband Felix, whose fate at sea takes a sudden turn. As the decades unfold through postwar prosperity and societal change, the hidden truth resurfaces, forcing both families to confront their intertwined histories and reshaped identities. With tenderness and insight, the novel explores love, loss, secrecy, and the enduring human search for connection and meaning.

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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:

August 2025

July 2025

June 2025

Do any of these books appeal to you?  Come back next month as I let you know what the October picks are!