September Book Club Picks Are Here!
From GMA to Reese, these are the book club picks worth reading this fall.
By Diana Tramontano
It’s that time of the month when book clubs select their favorite September books to read and discuss! This month, we have a wide range of selections including page-turners, lyrical memoirs, feel-good romances, and more.
Celebrities like Reese Witherspoon and Jenna Bush Hager have popular book clubs through their Instagram accounts, @reesesbookclub and @readwithjenna. Some picks are selected by editors or groups of people, including Indie Next titles, which are nominated and voted on by booksellers across the country. There are also many monthly subscription boxes that offer a selection of titles to choose from, like Book of the Month. If Book of the Month isn’t the right fit for you, be sure to check out others like Aardvark Book Club, Once Upon a Book Club, or Literati for children’s books.
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim is a popular pick this month. It was a Book of the Month pick in August and is now a GMA Book Club, Barnes & Noble Book Club, Phenomenal Book Club, and Belletrist Book Club pick for September. Zibby Mag was lucky enough to get a chance to talk to Kim about her writing process and the pressures of publishing a second novel. Read the author spotlight with Kim here, and check out the other picks for this month below!
Read with Jenna: Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood
Amazing Grace Adams follows a midlife heroine on her journey to rediscover her power, her independence, and herself. Littlewood also wrote a roundup on her favorite midlife heroines for Zibby Mag, which you can read here.
Reese’s Book Club: Mother Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon
A murder mystery gone awry when the grandmother-mother-daughter trio decides to take the investigation into their own hands and solve the murder themselves.
GMA Book Club: Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
Mysterious and mesmerizing, a compassionate tale of the search for a missing father, halted by one probing fact: the only person who knows of his whereabouts is unable to speak.
Barnes & Noble: Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
Same as above!
Indie Next: The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
Bestselling author Groff brings us another captivating story of one servant girl who escapes her colonial settlement into the wilderness in search of a new way of life.
Sarah Selects: Going Zero by Anthony McCarten
From the four-time Academy Award-nominated screenwriter McCarten comes an action-packed thriller in which 10 Americans have been selected to beta test a new piece of spyware, one that can track anyone on earth, if it works.
Zibby’s Book Club: The Leaving Season by Kelly McMasters
A lyrical memoir-in-essays depicting the rush of falling in love, the pain of drifting out of love, and the challenge of recreating your life as a single parent.
Target Book Club: Babel by R.F. Kuang
A fresh look at the Industrial Revolution in this blend of fantasy and historical fiction. This was an instant New York Times bestseller when it was released in August 2022, and it was also a December 2022 Book of the Month pick!
Phenomenal Book Club: Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
Same as above!
Belletrist Book Club : Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
Same as above!
Book of the Month Picks
For Book of the Month subscribers, there are five selections to choose from. And if you’re not yet a BOTM member, you can sign up here.
The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger
An unexpected murder in rural Minnesota pushes a small town into high alert. Krueger creatively weaves together the mystery surrounding the murder while shedding light on the wounds left by the wars we fight both abroad and at home. Check out Zibby Mag’s recent author spotlight of Krueger here.
You, Again by Kate Goldbeck
Endorsed by the iconic author duo Christina Lauren, You, Again explores what happens when two culinary competitors find themselves pushed together after heartbreak in this fun, enemies-to-friends-to-lovers saga.
The Stranger Upstairs by Lisa M. Matlin
Sarah Slade decides to start her life over in the midst of her failing marriage by buying a house where a brutal murder occurred. Though she believes this fixer-upper will turn her life around, spooky things start occurring with every remodel, and she starts to believe someone or something is out to kill her.
Evil Eye by Etaf Rum
After building the successful career and perfect family she always dreamed of, Yara is put on probation at work and is forced to evaluate her carefully constructed world and the childhood she left behind.
The Intern by Michelle Campell
A thrilling page-turner following a judge and her intern, both hiding massive secrets that could destroy their careers–and maybe their lives.
Posted September 12, 2023
