7 Online Book Clubs You Can Join Now

Oprah’s Book Club

Oprah Winfrey’s book club is arguably America’s most influential literary hit-maker, turning unknown titles into massive bestsellers — from its early days on The Oprah Winfrey Show to its rebirth in 2012 in the pages of her magazine as “Oprah’s Book Club 2.0.” While some may snub their nose at her mass-market appeal, Winfrey has awfully good taste in books. You can hardly go wrong if you turn to the more than 120 books she has chosen through the years. Her 124th selection in June 2026 was Sophie Chen Keller's Little Wonder. Other recent picks have included Douglas Stuart’s coming-of-age novel John of John (longlisted for the Booker Prize) and Tayari Jones’ Kin. Go to OprahDaily.com for book-related articles and interviews. You can also sign up for a book club newsletter.

Natalie Portman’s Book Club

Natalie Portman is known for playing Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel films, Jackie Kennedy in Jackie and a ballet dancer unraveling under pressure in Black Swan, a role that won her the Academy Award for Best Actress. She’s just as willing to move between worlds in her book club, launched in 2019. The actress says she looks for books that can deepen readers’ understanding of themselves and others (helping us practice empathy, she writes), and the selections on her site span genres, though she tends toward nonfiction. Among her 2026 choices were Lena Dunham’s memoir Famesick and Arundhati Roy’s memoir about her complicated relationship with her mother, Mother Mary Comes to Me. Portman also shares author interviews on her site. 

Book Club With Jeffrey Sachs

Jeffrey Sachs is an economist and University Professor at Columbia University whose work has focused on economic development, poverty, public health and sustainable development. His podcast-based book club is similarly interested in large questions about history, economics and world affairs. Rather than simply announcing a title, Sachs holds monthly conversations with the authors. Season 5 includes Michael Jabara Carley’s Stalin’s Gamble: The Search for Allies Against Hitler, 1930-1936, Rana Mitter’s Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II, 1937-1945 and Sven Beckert’s Capitalism: A Global History. You will not find any meet-cute romances here

Read With Jenna

When Today show cohost Jenna Bush Hager launched her book club in 2019, it seemed like a perfect fit. Hager is a lifelong bibliophile and her mother, former first lady Laura Bush, launched a foundation to assist America’s libraries, one of her multiple literary endeavors. Hager’s club picks a new book every month; in 2026, they’ve included Stefan Merrill Block’s memoir Homeschooled, Amy Jo Burns’ novel Wait for Me, Gillian McAllister’s missing-person thriller Caller Unknown and Laura Moriarty’s Sunlight Finds You. The book club site, housed under the Today show umbrella, offers discussion questions, author interviews, other book recommendations and a list of previous book club selections. Readers can sign up for a newsletter and post their book comments on Facebook and Instagram by using the hashtag #ReadWithJenna.

Reese’s Book Club

Before you dismiss Reese Witherspoon’s book club as some Hollywood vanity project, consider this: Many of her picks rise to the New York Times Best Sellers list, and she has excellent literary taste. Each book centers around a woman’s story, such as Laura Dave’s brooding romantic thriller The First Time I Saw Him, Philippa Malicka’s courtroom-centered In Her Defense and Alexandra Andrews’ artsy thriller The Fine Art of Lying. To learn each month’s pick and chat about the selections, follow @ReesesBookClub on Instagram (where the club has 3.2 million followers), Facebook and Twitter. You can also find her complete list of selections — starting with her first pick, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman — on her site, ReesesBookClub.com.

Editor's note: This article was originally published on Aug. 1, 2022. It has been updated to reflect new information.