As the final days of 2025 approach, it’s easy to get into a reading slump. I’ve been there. If you read a lot (as I do) it is possible to experience times when you just don’t know what to read next.

If that’s the case, might I suggest joining a celebrity book club?

Don’t be put off by that term – many online book clubs run by well-known faces are a treasure trove of great books, run by people who genuinely love reading. They’re a good source of inspiration and often span many different genres. You may not enjoy every choice, but they’re a great way to widen your reading and sample books you otherwise would not have chosen.

Here’s a few of our favourites:

Reese’s Book Club (run by Reese Witherspoon)

Book and a Brew are big fans of Reese’s Book Club!

Run by Oscar winning actress Reese Witherspoon, Reese’s Book Club has been running since 2017. Every month, Reese personally recommends one book to her followers, with a video explaining what she loved about the book and why it’s a good choice. I can tell that she loves to read, as her choices span many genres, from memoirs and romantic comedies, to historical fiction.

The only rule is that each book must have a female character at its centre.

She’s not perfect: she has a bizarre liking for cliched thrillers, and I’ve found a few choices to be over-hyped – but overall the choices are varied, nicely paced, and cover a range of subjects.

Read: The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan

Avoid: Something In The Water by Catherine Steadman, First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

Oprah’s Book Club (run by Oprah Winfrey)

The original celebrity book club!

Oprah has been recommending books to her followers since 1996, and now has 22 million followers!

What I love about Oprah’s Book Club is that Oprah doesn’t just recommend new releases. She simply recommends books that she enjoyed – works by Maya Angelou, Charles Dickens and Sidney Poitier have all featured. Like Reese, she has her faults: she loves a self-help book (only you can decide if you enjoy self help books as much as Oprah does), and she definitely has a type! (i.e. those who went to prison for a crime they didn’t commit).

Some choices are not for the faint-hearted, either : Abraham Verghese’s The Covenant of Water (hailed by Oprah as one of the best books she’s ever read), clocks in at a big 715 pages!

Read: All The Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert, An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Avoid: the self help books! (unless that’s your thing, of course)

Read With Jenna (run by Jenna Hager-Bush)

Jenna Hager-Bush may be the daughter of George W. Bush, but we won’t hold that against her.

She has fabulous taste in books! She’s also passionate about encouraging children to read for fun, something I too am passionate about. Many of her monthly choices are fiction works by American writers, but occasionally she does throw in a curve ball – a poetry book, or this month’s choice, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. She reads widely and her choices span some big subjects – death, war, the plight of immigrants and under-represented groups – so it’s sensible to approach with caution. But if you’re hoping to widen your reading and experiment with different genres, Read With Jenna is a good place to start.

Read: A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum, The Girl With The Louding Voice by Abi Dare

Avoid: The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams (not a bad book per se, but a memoir about terminal illness probably wasn’t the wisest choice for the week of my birthday!)

Happy Place Book Club (run by Fearne Cotton)

For those not familiar with Fearne Cotton, she’s a British TV and radio presenter, and author of several books about mental health subjects. She also runs the Happy Place Book Club, aimed at reading for fun and as a way of maintaining our wellbeing (just like Book and a Brew!)

Her monthly choices are varied and clearly inspired by Reese’s Book Club, as many feature a female lead character. They’re a mixture of fiction and non-fiction, and usually easy to follow, with relatable characters. I’ve enjoyed every book that Fearne has recommended, making her my current favourite celebrity book club.

Read: So Thrilled For You by Holly Bourne, The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey

Avoid: All Fours by Miranda July (and ignore the hype – it is dreadful!)

Good Morning America Book Club

The GMA Book Club was created as a rival to Read With Jenna (which airs on NBC’s Today show), and is different in that it features a revolving cast of presenters and contributors. It’s a little like (for our British friends) BBC2’s Between The Covers. That means that each monthly selection is often wildly different from the last, and usually a new release. For British fans, that can sometimes be challenging, as the books aren’t yet available in the UK.

I’m a recent convert to the GMA Book Club, and have found the choices a bit mixed – without one presenter to anchor the choices, it’s difficult to get a steer on what that person enjoys, and develop a connection to them. But anything that promotes a love of reading is ok in my book (pun intended) so I will persevere!

Read: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Avoid: The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan

There are many more celebrity book clubs out there! Dua Lipa, Florence and the Machine, and Natalie Portman all regularly recommend books to their followers.

Any I should be following, that I’ve missed?