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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 said in a 2023 interview.
Roberts, who started Belletrist with her 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.
Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club March 2025 pick: “Broken Country” by Clare Leslie Hall
Goodreads rating: 4.49/5 stars
“The March @reesesbookclub pick is here, and you’re going to LOSE YOUR CHICKEN over it!” Witherspoon wrote in her announcement.
“‘Broken Country’ by @clarelesliehall is a gripping mix of thrilling murder mystery, and a once-in-a-lifetime chance to relive your truest love story all over again… plus, that ending?! I did NOT see it coming!”
Dua Lipa’s Service95 Book Club March 2025 pick: “There There” by Tommy Orange
Goodreads rating: 3.98/5 stars
“Another month, another epic Monthly Read – and for March, I’ve chosen the searing ‘There There’ by Tommy Orange,” the singer wrote in her Service95 newsletter.
“If you are expecting beads and fry bread, you’ve come to the wrong book. Orange’s characters – 12 ‘Urban Indians’ living modern lives in American cities – are single parents, filmmakers, recovering addicts, survivors of sexual violence and kids searching for meaning – in short: life in all its complexity,” she wrote.
‘Good Morning America’ Book Club March 2025 pick: “Count My Lies” by Sophie Stava
Goodreads rating: 4.11/5 stars
“The new thriller follows Sloane Caraway, a compulsive liar who fabricates harmless stories to make her mundane life more exciting. And boy, does it get exciting,” “GMA” announced on social media.
Jenna Bush Hager’s Read with Jenna Book Club March 2025 pick: “The Dream Hotel” by Laila Lalami
Goodreads rating: 4.02/5 stars
“This gripping, mind-bending novel takes us to the near-distant future, where the government doesn’t just watch you—it monitors your dreams,” Hager wrote alongside her announcement. “Our protagonist, Sara, is arrested at LAX after coming home from a trip — but she hasn’t committed a crime… yet. She’s been flagged because her dreams suggest she might, and that’s enough to land her in the Dream Hotel, a mysterious facility where she joins a sisterhood of women fighting for their freedom.
“I started this book and could not put it down! It is truly a meditation on free will, sisterhood, and the power of love. ‘The Dream Hotel’ is one you will not want to miss!”
Oprah Winfrey’s Book Club current pick: “Dream State” by Eric Puchner
Goodreads rating: 4.08/5 stars
“We’re so excited to let you know that our next Book Club selection is ‘Dream State’ by Eric Puchner,” Winfrey announced on social media.
“Set in the days before a summer wedding at a lake house in Montana, the relationship between Cece and Charlie — the bride and groom-to-be — is tested after his best friend, Garrett, who’s officiating the upcoming nuptials, meets Cece. What happens next not only changes the trajectory of their lives, but also the lives of the next generation.”
Natalie Portman’s Nat’s Book Club March 2025 pick: “Saving Five” by Amanda Nguyen
Goodreads rating: 4.62/5 stars
Natalie Portman picked a memoir for her March book pick.
In awe of you @amandangocnguyen,” the actress wrote on social media. “Thank you for sharing your truth, your light, and for writing your story — a story of survival which ignited an entire movement and enabled sexual assault survivor rights.”
Emma Roberts and Karah Preiss’s Belletrist Book Club March 2025 pick: “The Strange Case of Jane O” by Karen Thompson Walker
Goodreads rating: 4.05/5 stars
“A year after her child is born, Jane suffers a series of strange episodes: amnesia, premonitions, hallucinations, and an inexplicable sense of dread. Three days after her first visit to a psychiatrist, Jane suddenly goes missing. A day later she is found unconscious in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, in the midst of what seems to be an episode of dissociative fugue; when she comes to, she has no memory of what has happened to her,” Belletrist wrote of “The Strange Case of Jane O.”
“We can’t wait for you to pick up a copy and follow along with us.”
Dakota Johnson’s TeaTime Book Club March 2025 pick: “Loca” by Alejandro Heredia
Goodreads rating: 4.23/5 stars
“This month we’re reading ‘Loca’ by Alejandro Heredia. It follows one daring year in the lives of young people living at the edge of their own patience and desires,” Johnson’s TeaTime book club announced.
“It’s 1999, and best friends Sal and Charo are striving to hold on to their dreams in a New York determined to grind them down. Sal is a book-loving science nerd trying to grow beyond his dead-end job in a new city, but he’s held back by tragic memories from his past in Santo Domingo. Free-spirited Charo is surprised to find herself a mother at twenty-five, partnered with a controlling man, working at the same supermarket for years, her world shrunk to the very domesticity she thought she’d escaped in her old country. When Sal finds love at a gay club one night, both his and Charo’s worlds unexpectedly open up to a vibrant social circle that pushes them to reckon with what they owe to their own selves, pasts, futures, and, always, each other.
“With expansive grace, it reveals both the grueling conditions that force people to migrate and the possibility of friendship as home when family, nations, and identity groups fall short.”
