What Book Clubs Are Reading in August
The sizzling August heat makes for the perfect excuse to lounge in the A/C with a book, and we’ve got the latest book club line-up to keep you company. New York Magazine returns with its seasonal Beach Read Book Club, featuring THE must-read book that’s in every avid reader’s beach tote this summer. Meanwhile, The Fallon Summer Reads Book Club is exploring a buzzed-about novel that’s perfect for fans of The Secret History. Plus, The New York Times Book Review will spotlight the first volume of Elena Ferrante’s acclaimed Neapolitan quartet, recently hailed as the Best Book of the 21st Century by 503 literary experts.
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The Fallon Book Club
Jimmy Fallon & Liberty Hardy 📖
The God of the Woods
Liz MooreBooklover and Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon crowdsourced his pick this month, and viewers picked one of the season’s most talked-about books. The dark mystery - about a wealthy teen who vanishes from her remote Adirondack summer camp - is tailor-made for fans of The Secret History.
Jimmy Fallon & Liberty Hardy 📖Hardcover, 2024
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The Book Review Book Club
Los Angeles Review of Books & Joyce Carol Oates
My Brilliant Friend
Elena FerranteIn August, The New York Times Book Review will spotlight the first volume in Elena Ferrante’s acclaimed Neapolitan quartet. Recently named the Best Book of the 21st Century by 503 literary experts, reading this “uncompromising, unforgettable novel” is described by the Book Review as “riding a bike on gravel: It’s gritty and slippery and nerve-racking, all at the same time.”
Los Angeles Review of Books & Joyce Carol OatesPaperback, 2012
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Beach Read Book Club with New York Magazine
Emma Roberts & Nigella Lawson
Long Island Compromise
Taffy Brodesser-AknerWith swimsuit season well underway, New York magazine returns with its seasonal summer book club and off course they picked THE reigning beach read of the summer from the author of Fleishman is in Trouble. This cutting family saga follows a wealthy clan beginning with the father's kidnapping in the 1980s and moves on to the family’s less-than-stellar present day.
Emma Roberts & Nigella LawsonHardcover, 2024
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TeaTime Book Club with Dakota Johnson
MJ Franklin & Keziah Weir
The Anthropologists
Aysegül SavasFor August, actor Dakota Johnson chose a novel about “finding your place and time in the world” by the acclaimed Turkish author of White on White. The story follows a nomadic couple as they try to establish roots in a new city.
MJ Franklin & Keziah WeirHardcover, 2024
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Belletrist
Belletrist
Five-Star Stranger
Kat TangThe latest book club selection from Emma Roberts and Karah Preiss is an “exciting and resonant debut” about a top-rated man on the Rental Stranger app--a place where users can hire a pretend fiancé, a wingman, or companion of any kind--who finds out who he is by being anyone but himself.
BelletristHardcover, 2024
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California Book Club
Kali Fajardo-Anstine & Craig Gilmore
Under the Feet of Jesus
Helena Maria ViramontesThis month, the California Book Club examines a moving and powerful novel about migrant workers in California, recognized by The Atlantic as one of the Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years. As usual, the Golden State-focused club will convene on 8/15 for an online chat with the author to discuss her work.
Kali Fajardo-Anstine & Craig GilmorePaperback, 1996
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Read with Jenna Book Club and Zibby’s Book Club
The Wedding People
Alison EspachJenna Bush Hager has called her August selection “the perfect book to wrap up your summer reading list.” She describes it as a “darkly comedic yet heartwarming story about love, loss, and the people who come into our lives that change us forever.” This New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice book was also selected by author and publisher Zibby Owens for her book club this month.
Hardcover, 2024
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Ali Velshi's Banned Book Club
Ezra Klein & The New York Review of Books
The Last White Man
Mohsin HamidThe latest work picked by Ali Velshi, whose club is meant as an act of resistance against banned books, is “an exploration of the construct of race, the realities of death, and a masterclass in surrealist narrative” from a Booker Prize finalist, who paid a visit to the MSNBC anchor’s show and described how he came up with the book’s unique and deeply personal premise in the divisive aftermath of 9/11.
Ezra Klein & The New York Review of BooksPaperback, 2023
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The Queen's Reading Room
Queen Lucia & Miss Mapp: The Mapp & Lucia Novels
E. F. BensonThis month, Queen Camilla recommends the Mapp and Lucia series, a 1920s “quick-witted comedy of manners [that] tells the story of the pretentious and snobbish Lucia, who rents a house for the summer from the suspicious Miss Mapp. The fictional village of Tilling soon becomes a social war zone as the two women vie for social dominance, with hilarious consequences.”
Paperback, 2015
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Library Science with Kaia Gerber
Job
Max Wolf FriedlichKaia Gerber is taking her readers to the theater with her club’s August pick: “Max Wolf Friedlich’s play, JOB (which is officially moving to Broadway today for 10 weeks only) 💚 This two person psychological thriller touches on gender politics, power, our emotional connection to content, careerism, moral obligation, and what it means to be a citizen of the internet.”
Paperback, 2024
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