10 Reese’s Book Club Picks Loved by Over 500,000 Goodreads Readers

Reese Witherspoon has picked hundreds of books over the years, but these are the ones readers can’t stop recommending. Each has over 500,000 Goodreads ratings and has earned its place as a modern favorite. If you’re only reading a handful of Reese’s Book Club picks, make them these.

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Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

Great Big Beautiful Life  is a gorgeous story about Alice and Hayden who are complete opposites. She is optimistic while he is the grumpy, award-winning journalist. You will love their dynamic and banter. The best part about the book was the backdrop. I fell in love with the setting and the plot immediately. If you are  looking for a feel-good Reese Witherspoon book, this is a great book. Also, reading the sharp dialogue and slow-burn rivalries are always my favorite parts of Emily Henry’s books.

Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry.

Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years–or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the 20th Century.

When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she’ll choose the person who’ll tell her story, there are three things keeping Alice’s head in the game.

One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Alice—and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over.

Two: She’s ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication

Three: Hayden Anderson, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition.

But the problem is, Margaret is only giving each of them pieces of her story. Pieces they can’t swap to put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they’re in the same room.

And it’s becoming abundantly clear that their story—just like the tale Margaret’s spinning—could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad…depending on who’s telling it.

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Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall

Set against the English countryside, Broken Country follows Beth, whose carefully built life is shaken when someone from her past unexpectedly returns. Old feelings, buried secrets, and impossible choices slowly come to the surface.What I loved most was how emotionally layered every relationship feels. Rather than rushing from one dramatic moment to the next, the novel lets its characters breathe. If you are looking for an unputdownable Reese book club pick, this is for you.




Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth’s brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn’t realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the dog belonged to none other than Gabriel Wolfe, the man Beth loved as a teenager—the man who broke her heart years ago. Gabriel has returned to the village with his young son Leo, a boy who reminds Beth very much of her own son, who died in a tragic accident.

As Beth is pulled back into Gabriel’s life, tensions around the village rise and dangerous secrets and jealousies from the past resurface, this time with deadly consequences. Beth is forced to make a choice between the woman she once was, and the woman she has become.

A sweeping love story with the pace and twists of a thriller, Broken Country is a novel of simmering passion, impossible choices, and explosive consequences that toggles between the past and present to explore the far-reaching legacy of first love.

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First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

Evie Porter appears to have the perfect life, but almost everything about her is a carefully crafted lie. She has a fake name, a secret job, and a dangerous past that refuses to stay buried. As First Lie Wins unfolds, every new chapter raises fresh questions about who can be trusted. I loved how smart and unpredictable this thriller is without relying on shocking twists alone. Also read, books like First Lie Wins.

Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist.

The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she’s given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle is the job.

Evie isn’t privy to Mr. Smith’s real identity, but she knows this job will be different. Ryan has gotten under her skin, and she’s starting to envision a different sort of life for herself. But Evie can’t make any mistakes—especially after what happened last time.

Because the one thing she’s worked her entire life to keep clean, the one identity she could always go back to—her real identity—just walked right into this town. Evie Porter must stay one step ahead of her past while making sure there’s still a future in front of her. The stakes couldn’t be higher—but then, Evie has always liked a challenge

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Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

During the early days of the pandemic, Lara’s three grown daughters convince her to finally tell the story of a summer she spent acting in a small theater company alongside a young man who would later become famous. As Tom Lake moves between past and present, it becomes a thoughtful reflection on love, family, and the lives we imagine for ourselves. I loved how quiet yet deeply meaningful this novel feels. Ann Patchett reminds us that ordinary moments often become the ones we treasure most. Also read book club questions Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers.

In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family’s orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.

Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.

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Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

Yellowface is told from the perspective of a white author who steals the manuscript of a deceased Chinese author. However, Juniper can’t escape Athena’s shadow.  I really loved the mystery, drama and dark comedy. Also read : Yellowface by R. F. Kuang Book Club Questions & Snack Ideas

Athena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nobody.

White lies
When Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Juniper Song.

Dark humour
But as evidence threatens June’s stolen success, she will discover exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.

Deadly consequences…
What happens next is entirely everyone else’s fault.

With its totally immersive first-person voice, Yellowface grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media. R.F. Kuang’s novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable.

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The Last Thing he Told Me by Laura Dave

When Hannah’s husband suddenly disappears, he leaves behind only a brief note asking her to protect his teenage daughter. The Last Thing He Told Me follows Hannah as she pieces together a life built on secrets while slowly earning the trust of a girl who doesn’t want her around. The mystery keeps the pages turning, but the relationship between the two women gives the story its heart. It’s an absorbing thriller that balances family, trust, and suspense really well. Also read my review of The Last Thing he Told Me

Before Owen Michaels disappears he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows to whom the note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child and wants nothing to do with her new stepmother.

As Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss, as a U.S. marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he was. Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen’s true identity—and why he really disappeared.

  

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The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi

Set in 1950s Jaipur, The Henna Artist follows Lakshmi, a talented henna artist who builds an independent life after leaving an unhappy marriage. As her reputation grows among wealthy women, unexpected family responsibilities and secrets threaten everything she has worked for. I loved getting lost in the colorful setting and rich cultural details that make the story feel so immersive. It’s a beautifully written historical fiction novel with a determined heroine you’ll be cheering for from beginning to end. It was one of the binge-worthy audiobooks.

Vivid and compelling in its portrait of one woman’s struggle for fulfillment in a society pivoting between the traditional and the modern, The Henna Artist opens a door into a world that is at once lush and fascinating, stark and cruel.

Escaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant 1950s pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the most highly requested henna artist—and confidante—to the wealthy women of the upper class. But trusted with the secrets of the wealthy, she can never reveal her own…

Known for her original designs and sage advice, Lakshmi must tread carefully to avoid the jealous gossips who could ruin her reputation and her livelihood. As she pursues her dream of an independent life, she is startled one day when she is confronted by her husband, who has tracked her down these many years later with a high-spirited young girl in tow—a sister Lakshmi never knew she had. Suddenly the caution that she has carefully cultivated as protection is threatened. Still she perseveres, applying her talents and lifting up those that surround her as she does.

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The Guest List by Lucy Foley

The Guest List is a fast-paced thriller set in an island off the coast of Ireland. When guests gather to celebrate their friends’ wedding, nobody excepted it to turn dark and deadly. With multiple narrators hiding secrets, this was one of the atmospheric thrillers I’ve read. Also check out : 28 The Guest List Book Club Questions & Snack Ideas

A wedding celebration turns dark and deadly in this deliciously wicked and atmospheric thriller reminiscent of Agatha Christie from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hunting Party.

The bride – The plus one – The best man – The wedding planner – The bridesmaid – The body

On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It’s a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has been expertly planned and will be expertly executed.

But perfection is for plans, and people are all too human. As the champagne is popped and the festivities begin, resentments and petty jealousies begin to mingle with the reminiscences and well wishes. The groomsmen begin the drinking game from their school days. The bridesmaid not-so-accidentally ruins her dress. The bride’s oldest (male) friend gives an uncomfortably caring toast.

And then someone turns up dead. Who didn’t wish the happy couple well? And perhaps more important, why?

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Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Where the Crawdads Sing follows Kya Clark, a young girl who grows up alone in the marshes of North Carolina after her family abandons her. As she learns to survive on her own, the story slowly unfolds into both a coming-of-age novel and a compelling murder mystery. What stayed with me most was the vivid setting. The marsh feels alive on every page. It’s one of those unforgettable Reese’s Book Club picks that blends beautiful writing, loneliness, resilience, and suspense into a story that’s hard to stop thinking about. Also check out 26 Unputdownable Books Like Where The Crawdads Sing.

For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet fishing village. Kya Clark is barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when the popular Chase Andrews is found dead, locals immediately suspect her.

But Kya is not what they say. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life’s lessons from the land, learning the real ways of the world from the dishonest signals of fireflies. But while she has the skills to live in solitude forever, the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. Drawn to two young men from town, who are each intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world—until the unthinkable happens.

In Where the Crawdads Sing, Owens juxtaposes an exquisite ode to the natural world against a profound coming of age story and haunting mystery. Thought-provoking, wise, and deeply moving, Owens’s debut novel reminds us that we are forever shaped by the child within us, while also subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.

The story asks how isolation influences the behavior of a young woman, who like all of us, has the genetic propensity to belong to a group. The clues to the mystery are brushed into the lush habitat and natural histories of its wild creatures.

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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

At first, Eleanor seems perfectly content with her quiet, predictable life, but as Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine unfolds, you begin to understand the loneliness and heartbreak she’s been carrying for years. Her awkward humor, honest observations, and gradual journey toward friendship make her impossible not to root for. I loved this book because it reminds us that kindness can change someone’s life in ways we never expect. It’s funny, moving, and one of those novels that quietly leaves a lasting impression. It’s also one of the unforgettable books I have read

No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine.

Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.

But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond’s big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one.

Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the smart, warm, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. . .

The only way to survive is to open your heart.

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