What Book Clubs Are Reading in May

For her book club, author and bookfluencer Zibby Owens selected Maggie Smith's moving reflections on love, loss, and renewal in the aftermath of a failed marriage.

The View co-host Joy Behar selected Judy Blume's classic coming-of-age novel for her club, timed to the release of its film adaptation.

Glory Edim's selection for Well-Read Black Girl transports readers to 1950s Alabama, where a woman named Alice Young begins building a new life in a defiant all-black town resisting integration.

Maya Angelou's memoir about her experience as a Revolutionary Returnee in Ghana was selected by rapper Noname's club, which amplifies the voices of people of color.

Lilly Singh's pick is a chilling dystopian novel with Handmaid’s Tale vibes set in a repressive South Asian city where women are forced to take multiple husbands to bear daughters for local elites.

Reese Witherspoon selects a mysterious Hollywood saga filled with old-school Tinseltown glam and modern showbiz glitz. The book was endorsed by Taylor Jenkins Reid who says, "If you like Evelyn Hugo, you’re gonna want this one."

Kaia Gerber's Book Club pick celebrates the bond between mothers and daughters through intimate conversations between Hollywood actor Laura Dern and her acclaimed actor mom.

Natalie Portman invites readers on this time-hopping saga about a Parisian woman’s bold attempt at rediscovering the lives of her relatives killed at Auschwitz.

Oprah's Book Club pick, written by a Stanford medical professor, follows three generations of a South Indian family cursed by drowning. Oprah praised the book as one of the best books she's ever read.

Brutal prison death matches with spectators in a dystopian America bring attention to mass incarceration in Roxane Gay's Book Club and #ReadwithJenna pick.