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september 2025 book boxes book club picks just read it already a

Here is what Reese, GMA, Jenna, and Oprah picked for their book clubs this month along with the Aardvark and Book of the Month offerings. I have also indicated which books I picked in my boxes. From Reese's to Jack Edwards and more, here's what the biggest and most interesting book clubs are reading in September. Jamie Canavés is the Tailored Book Recommendations coordinator and Unusual Suspects mystery newsletter writer — in case you’re wondering what you do with a Liberal Arts degree. She’s never met a beach she didn’t like, always says yes to dessert, loves ‘80s nostalgia, all forms of entertainment, and can hold a conversation using only gifs. You can always talk books with her on Bluesky, Litsy, Goodreads, and her newsletter Multitudes Contained.

Whether you’re here looking for a book club to join, curious to see what books people will be talking about, or scanning a big book list for your next read, I’ve got you! I’ve rounded up 11 book clubs that are all very different from each other, but they all offer at least a virtual component, and most of them do author chats! This month, you get a bonus from one of the book clubs, which chose two books. The selections offer something for all kinds of readers, from a middle grade novel with a summer theme to a “once-in-a-decade novel”! There’s also queer romance, two Palestinian novels, epic fantasy, a French memoir that has finally been translated into English, satire, poetry, historical fiction, and more! There’s plenty to pick from and talk about.

About the book club: Every month, Reese Witherspoon picks a book for Reese’s Book Club that centers a woman in its story. The book: The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan Our reviewer says: “The lovely latest from novelist Tan brings together selections from ‘nine personal journals filled with sketches and handwritten notes of naive observations’ about birds spotted in her northern California backyard between... This hits the mark.” Read more. Our reviewer says: “Castillo’s masterful latest follows the vagaries of a social media content moderator’s work and love lives…. It’s a triumph.” Read more.

The book: How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music, ed. Alison Fensterstock with Ann Powers Our reviewer says: “Fensterstock, a contributor to NPR’s Turning the Tables draws from it and more than 50 years of the station’s coverage in a rich and resonant collection of essays, interview excerpts, and... It’s a buoyant, welcome ode to some of the most influential songstresses of the 20th and 21st centuries.” Read more. <img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-252595" src="https://subscriptionboxramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Beige-Orange-Cosy-Autumn-Instagram-Post-525x525.png" alt="" width="525" height="525" srcset="https://subscriptionboxramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Beige-Orange-Cosy-Autumn-Instagram-Post-525x525.png 525w, https://subscriptionboxramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Beige-Orange-Cosy-Autumn-Instagram-Post-1024x1024.png 1024w, https://subscriptionboxramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Beige-Orange-Cosy-Autumn-Instagram-Post-768x768.png 768w, https://subscriptionboxramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Beige-Orange-Cosy-Autumn-Instagram-Post-600x600.png 600w, https://subscriptionboxramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Beige-Orange-Cosy-Autumn-Instagram-Post.png 1080w" sizes="(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px" /> When I am looking for new reading material I find myself browsing Amazon Top Sellers, recommendations from sites like PopSugar and online (mainly celebrity) book clubs!

Here is a little round-up of September 2025 Book Club picks from various monthly book clubs I follow (I will update as the picks come in): –GMA Book Club: ‘‘The Book of Lost Hours” by Hayley Gelfuso <img decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-252814 size-medium" src="https://subscriptionboxramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Screen-Shot-2025-09-03-at-1.10.20-PM-473x525.jpg" alt="" width="473" height="525" srcset="https://subscriptionboxramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Screen-Shot-2025-09-03-at-1.10.20-PM-473x525.jpg 473w, https://subscriptionboxramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Screen-Shot-2025-09-03-at-1.10.20-PM-768x853.jpg 768w, https://subscriptionboxramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Screen-Shot-2025-09-03-at-1.10.20-PM.jpg 890w" sizes="(max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px" /> ~Reese’s (Witherspoon) Book Club – Hello Sunshine: To the Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage As the cozy season approaches, so does the classic debate: the great pumpkin spice love affair. Whatever your stance, we can all agree on the best part of the season is cozying up with a great new book.

And while any book is comforting on a crisp autumn day, the right book club pick does even more than that; it invites you to learn something new, explore complex characters, and step into... So grab your mug and get ready to fall into a list of novels that will spark conversation long after you’ve turned the final page. When Cammy’s father dies, she’s pulled back into the Brooklyn neighborhood she thought she’d left behind. Over seven days of sitting shiva, old wounds resurface, secrets emerge, and family ties are tested. As she navigates her grief, she must confront unresolved family tensions and ghosts from her past, learning what it means to heal and find a new path forward. Buy the book now: Bookshop.org | Amazon | Barnes & Noble

A woman grapples with the aftermath of a mysterious illness that alters her body, memory, and perception of reality. Unnamed, she navigates a fragmented sense of self while attempting to reconstruct her daily life, relationships, and understanding of what it means to be human. Buy the book now: Bookshop.org | Amazon | Barnes & Noble Jenna Bush Hager says “Buckeye” by Patrick Ryan, her September 2025 Read With Jenna pick, is a “once-in-a-decade novel.” “You read it once and then, even though it’s 500 pages, want to reread again,” she says. The story is set in the small town of Bonhomie, Ohio, “basically over a lifetime” — from the start of World War II to the end of the Vietnam War.

“We meet two families whose lives intersect in ways that upon Page 1 you could never expect. We watch as America changes and these two families’ lives change,” Jenna says. “I underlined so many parts of this book to share as inspiration. I fell in love with these characters,” she says.

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