What Book Clubs Are Reading in June

This month, Emma Roberts and Karah Preiss invite their club members into the glamorous, exclusive, and unexpectedly raucous world of wine. In a debut novel praised by Publishers Weekly for its “bittersweet and satisfying” finish, four wine obsessives descend on a remote French vineyard for seven days of tastings, ego clashes, and simmering desire—all in pursuit of a single rare bottle. Sign up today at Tertulia.com/Belletrist to have each monthly Belletrist book pick delivered to your mailbox, along with an intimate author conversation at the end of the month.

The Ink Book Club’s second book club pick is the nonfiction debut from acclaimed novelist Omar El Akkad. In this searing and deeply personal work, he examines the broken promises of the West, drawing on decades of reporting from war zones, climate disasters, and sites of systemic injustice. What emerges is a powerful reckoning with privilege, displacement, and the quiet violence of exclusion—an urgent call to confront the moral contradictions of our time.

The Book Review Book Club celebrates the 100th anniversary of Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece that unfolds an entire world within a single day. According to The New York Times, it begins with the iconic line, “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself,” and explores themes of love, loss, and the lingering effects of war through the lens of one woman’s thoughts.

Good Morning America’s June book club pick is the high-flying new novel from the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Set in the heat of the 1980s space race, Atmosphere follows an ambitious astrophysicist vying for a seat on a NASA shuttle. As Cold War tensions rise and launch dates loom, she’s pulled into an intense romance that threatens to complicate everything—from her mission to her place in history.

Stephen Colbert kicks off his book club with Orbital, the 2024 Booker Prize winner by Samantha Harvey. Set aboard the International Space Station, this quietly stunning novel captures a single day in the lives of six astronauts. If you haven’t read this critically acclaimed novel yet, now’s the perfect time to join the journey.

Oprah’s Book Club latest selection is Ocean Vuong’s much-awaited follow-up to On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. This luminous novel explores the bond between a struggling young man and an elderly widow. Oprah describes it as “a heartfelt and powerful examination of two people at opposite ends of life, sharing the same experience of living on the fringes of society.”

Natalie Portman’s June selection follows a 17-year-old former millionaire with exacting tastes who must write a tell-all memoir while navigating the shark-infested waters of the publishing world. “DeWitt’s novella is a darkly funny but honest look at the exploitation of trauma within publishing,” says Portman.

This month, Jeffrey Sachs welcomes historian Ilan Pappè for an insightful conversation on the Israel-Palestine conflict, one of the most long-standing and sensitive issues of our time. Drawing from Pappè’s powerful new books—Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic and A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict—they explore the historical, political, and ideological forces that have shaped the Zionist movement and continue to influence the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine.

This June, Dakota Johnson’s pick for the TeaTime Book Club is the long-awaited new novel from National Book Award winner Susan Choi. It follows a daughter’s relentless search for her missing father, unfolding across time and continents in a story about grief, longing, and truth.