What Book Clubs Are Reading in March
Stories of remarkable women dominate the celebrity book club picks this March, as is fitting for Women’s History Month. Both Reese's Book Club and Alison Stewart champion Xochitl Gonzalez’s sophomore novel about a Brooklyn art school student discovering the life of a forgotten female artist. Backlist gems get some love with Natalie Portman selecting Nora Ephron’s Heartburn and Kaia Gerber picking the reissue of the 1979 classic Sex and Rage, about a dreamy girl going to New York to find her purpose. Whether reading in a room of one’s own or planning next month's pick for their own clubs, Tertulia members get a diverse set recommendations this month from the book club mavens.
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Reese's Book Club and Get Lit Book Club with WNYC's Alison Stewart 
Reyna Grande & Michael Imperioli

Anita de Monte Laughs Last: Reese's Book Club Pick (a Novel)
Xochitl GonzalezAnita de Monte Laughs Last is a red hot read, recommended by both Alison Stewart and Reese Witherspoon this month. In 1985, Anita de Monte is a rising star in the New York City art world. That is, until she’s discovered mysteriously dead. When, decades later, an art student sees herself and her struggles in Anita's story, worlds collide. Also, check out Get Lit's in person and virtual events with the author this month!


Hardcover, 2024
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Roxane Gay's Audacious Book Club
Bethanne Patrick Is Only Here to Signal Boost & Cuss Whisperer

Wandering Stars
Tommy OrangeThis staple of 2024 bestseller lists has had so much buzz since it came out in late February. Gay plans to dig into the discussion of Tommy Orange’s follow-up to his breakout bestseller, There There. This prequel-cum-sequel follows the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family.


Hardcover, 2024
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Nat's Book Club by Natalie Portman
Nigella Lawson & Yashar Ali 🐘

Heartburn
Nora EphronIt's fun to see the outpouring of love for this book from the godmother of romcoms in the comments of Nat's Instagram announcement: "Excited to finally read Nora Ephron’s Heartburn, her classic transformation of pain into humorous art."


Paperback, 1996
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Dua Lipa's Service 95 Book Club 
DUA LIPA & Seth Meyers

Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Hernan Diaz"I was obsessed and you might just be too," said the very well-read pop star Dua Lipa about this Pulitzer Prize winner. "While each reader will draw their own conclusion when they reach the end of this complex and thrilling book, what is never disputed is the ease with which money and power can bend reality itself."


Paperback, 2023
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Belletrist Book Club 
Jennifer Weiner & Jo

Piglet
Lottie HazellAvid readers and collaborators, actor Emma Roberts and production partner Karah Preiss, select a delectable read this month. When Piglet, a cookbook editor who never shook her childhood nickname, is horribly betrayed by her fiancé two weeks before they’re to be married, she finds herself. . . well, hungry. The New York Times calls this debut "a tantalizing layer cake of horror, romance (sort of) and timely questions about the power of appetite."


Hardcover, 2024
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Oprah's Book Club 

The Many Lives of Mama Love (Oprah's Book Club): A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
Lara Love HardinOprah praises this heart-wrenching memoir "about redemption, about joy, about hope, about claiming yourself and what you rightly deserve in life" that follows Mama Love, a soccer mom whose life turns upside down as she finds herself battling opiod and heroin addiction.
Paperback, 2025
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Kaia Gerber's Library Science Book Club 
CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN & Rachel Vorona Cote

Sex and Rage
Eve BabitzModel Kaia Gerber's Library Science book club often features eclectic and high-brow literary picks, and this month is no exception with Eve Babitz's Sex and Rage. Recently reissued after its publication in 1979, the novel follows Jacaranda, a dreamy young woman who moves to New York from Los Angeles in order to find purpose and move beyond sun-bathing and affairs with married men. "Babitz's talent for the brilliant line" (New York Times) makes Sex and Rage so readable.


Paperback, 2017
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Read with Jenna Book Club 
shannon carlin & The New York Times

The Great Divide
Cristina HenriquezOne of two books selected for Read with Jenna's five-year anniversary, The Great Divide is a powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal that casts light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there. "You will love these characters — it is epic and lovely," said Jenna, who happened to live in Panama in 2005. "There are so many different storylines that all come together at the end, which is one of my favorite ways to read and fall in love with a story."


Hardcover, 2024
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NoName Book Club 
Olayemi Olurin & No Comps

Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo
Zora Neale HurstonRapper NoName picks Zora Neale Hurston's non-fiction masterpiece, Barracoon, based on interviews Hurston conducted from 1927 and 1931 with Cudjo Lewis, a then-27-year-old man who was the last person alive to recount a firsthand experience of being enslaved by White Americans. A 2018 and 2020 New York Times bestseller, and a best book of the year by TIME, Audible, NPR, and more, Barracoon is a "maestrapiece," hails Alice Walker.


Paperback, 2020
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This Brown Girl Reads Book Club 
Sherrilyn Ifill & Sarah Cypher

Pomegranate
Helen Elaine LeeThis Brown Girl Reads is celebrating "Women's HERSTORY" month with three wonderful selections, including Pomegranate. A "complex portrayal of queer Black womanhood and marginalization in America" written in "lyrical and precise prose" that follows a woman, recently released from prison, trying to rebuild her life, maintain her sobriety, and reconnect with her family.


Paperback, 2024
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