Reese's Book Club (Updated October 2022)

Each month, Reese Witherspoon chooses a book with a woman at the center of the story. There's not a formula to the books she spotlights. Reese's team makes their choices thoughtfully and looks for ways to deepen our connection to books, authors, and ourselves.

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Book cover for "Honey and spice"
Star rating for Honey and spice
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Description:
"Sharp-tongued (and secretly soft-hearted) Kiki Banjo has just made a huge mistake. As an expert in relationship-evasion and the host of the popular student radio show Brown Sugar, she's made it her mission to make sure the women of the African-Caribbean Society at Whitewell University do not fall into the mess of 'situationships,' players, and heartbreak. But when the Queen of the Unbothered kisses Malakai Korede, the guy she just publicly denounced...
Book cover for "On the rooftop"
Star rating for On the rooftop
Average Rating:
2.8 stars
Description:
"A stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters' ambitions for their own lives-set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San Francisco"--
Book cover for "Sankofa"
Star rating for Sankofa
Average Rating:
3.4 stars
Description:
A funny, gripping and surprising story of a mixed-race British woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew, by award-winning author Chibundu Onuzo. Anna grew up in England with her white mother and knowing very little about her African father. In middle age, after separating from her husband and with her daughter all grown up, she finds herself alone and wondering who she really is. Her mother's death leads her to find her father's...
Book cover for "Seven days in June"
Star rating for Seven days in June
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York's Black literati. What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and...