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What Book Clubs Are Reading in October

Sally Rooney's latest novel is finally here, so don’t miss this chance to dive into the Irish literary sensation's latest zeitgeist-defining book, which was picked by both The New York Times Book Review and Belletrist this month. Also in this edition: Reese Witherspoon sets the mood for spooky season with a debut thriller that Dark Academia fans won’t resist, and Natalie Portman selects a sizzling spy novel that's nominated for two major awards.

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Book Cover for: Intermezzo, Sally Rooney
Belletrist and The Book Review Book Club

Intermezzo

Sally Rooney

The Irish lit megastar's latest novel is finally here, so don’t miss this chance to dive into her latest zeitgeist-defining book, which was picked by both The New York Times Book Review and Emma Roberts and Karah Preiss’ book club this month. Belletrist recently threw a glittery bash to celebrate the book’s launch at the Irish Arts Center - sans its press-shy author. “Sally Rooney has said that her ideal existence is to be able to write and then let her work go into the world without her being involved at all…so we cohosted a party with @fsgbooks and obeyed her wishes,” Roberts quipped on Instagram.

MJ FranklinConstance GradyMJ Franklin & Constance Grady

Hardcover, 2024

$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Mighty Red, Louise Erdrich
Read with Jenna Book Club

The Mighty Red

Louise Erdrich

For October, Jenna Bush Hager picked the new novel by this Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author about “a journey through a prairie community where love is absurd and splendid, and where the bond with the earth is both tattered and treasured,” according to the Today show host. “Louise Erdrich is a true literary treasure, and she’s done it again in this beautiful novel.”

Ron CharlesRumaan AlamRon Charles & Rumaan Alam

Hardcover, 2024

$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: From Here to the Great Unknown: Oprah's Book Club: A Memoir, Lisa Marie Presley
Oprah's Book Club

From Here to the Great Unknown: Oprah's Book Club: A Memoir

Lisa Marie Presley

This blistering memoir co-written by the late Lisa Marie Presley and her daughter Riley Keough is filled with bombshells about the royal family of rock and roll. Oprah said she knew within a few pages that this “honest and vulnerable" book would be her 108th pick.

Oprah WinfreyLena DunhamOprah Winfrey & Lena Dunham

Hardcover, 2024

$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Creation Lake, Rachel Kushner
Natalie’s Book Club

Creation Lake

Rachel Kushner

Natalie Portman's October selection is a sizzling hot literary spy noir “about a secret agent sent to infiltrate a commune of radical eco-activists in rural France” that’s currently nominated for both a National Book Award and the Booker Prize.

Ron CharlesFrancisco GoldmanRon Charles & Francisco Goldman

Hardcover, 2024

$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Model Home, Rivers Solomon
TeaTime Book Club with Dakota Johnson

Model Home

Rivers Solomon

This Tertulia First Dibs selection is Dakota Johnson's October pick. In the Lambda Award winner’s latest supernatural thriller, three Black siblings return to the white Dallas suburb where they grew up in the aftermath of their parents' unusual deaths.

Dakota JohnsonDakota Johnson

Hardcover, 2024

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Society of Lies: Reese's Book Club, Lauren Ling Brown
Reese's Book Club

Society of Lies: Reese's Book Club

Lauren Ling Brown

Reese Witherspoon gets her readers in the mood with this debut thriller that Dark Academia fans won’t be able to put down. When a Princenton grad returns to campus for her reunion, she’s pulled into a sinister world of secret societies after her little sister turns up dead. “If you’re looking for a page-turner that keeps you on the edge of your seat this spooky season, this one is a must-read!”

Reese's Book ClubReese's Book Club

Hardcover, 2024

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
Service95 Book Club with Dua Lipa

Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders

This October, Dua Lipa chose the celebrated author who won the 2017 Booker Prize for this imaginative Civil War story that finds Abraham Lincoln mourning the death of his young son Willie, who inhabits a Buddhist purgatory state filled with quarrelsome ghosts. “I loved this unique, bold and compassionate book…There is no one writing today who can match George Saunders for compassion and empathy. The very last page still replays in my mind. The voices of these spirits – the wretched and the brave, and the dead boy Willie Lincoln - will stay with me forever,” raved the pop star.

DUA LIPAEzra KleinDUA LIPA & Ezra Klein

Paperback, 2018

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: We're Alone: Essays, Edwidge Danticat
The Audacious Book Club

We're Alone: Essays

Edwidge Danticat

With her Audacious Book Club selection for October, Roxane Gay picks the new essay collection from an acclaimed Haitian-American author that pays tribute to her literary heroes like Toni Morrison and Gabriel García Márquez, offers personal anecdotes that tap into her experience as a Haitian immigrant, and explores the effects of hurricanes and political violence.

shannon carlinshannon carlin

Hardcover, 2024

$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: You Are Here, David Nicholls
The Queen's Reading Room

You Are Here

David Nicholls

Queen Camilla selected the latest love story from the internationally bestselling and Booker Prize-longlisted author of One Day that The New York Times Book Review found “captivating [and] flawless...An affectingly hard-won romance.”

Hardcover, 2024

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Parable of the Talents, Octavia E. Butler
Noname’s Book Club

Parable of the Talents

Octavia E. Butler

Rapper Noname’s October pick is the timely second book of a critically-acclaimed speculative fiction series by an acclaimed Afrofuturist author who passed away in 2006. "In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time, Octavia Butler's 'Parable' books may be unmatched," hailed the New Yorker.

Maria PopovaDon’t watch me. Watch my films.Maria Popova & Don’t watch me. Watch my films.

Paperback, 2019

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book