Whether your plans for the middle of summer are to spend as much time outside as possible or to avoid being outside, a bunch of great book clubs have a July pick for you to read. The variety of book clubs offer different focuses, a wide range of genres, tropes, and topics. Bonus: they all have a virtual component, and some also meet in person. Join a club (or more than one!), use this list for your next solo read, or read on to dump a pile of great books onto your TBR. However you interact with book clubs, it’s always interesting to see what the new selections are.
In July’s picks, you’ll find a reality show set in a near-future dystopia, dark academia fantasy, a wealthy Orlando community with a missing person case, Toni Morrison’s final novel, a poetry and essay collection, horror, a story about sisters, a southern crime novel, a rivalry romance centering not one but two bookstores, and more!
Subtle Asian Book Club
Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang
About the book club: Tiffany and Alexandra, longtime friends, created the Subtle Asian Book Club in 2020 with the goal of uplifting Asian voices and storytellers. You can read along with the monthly book pick, join discussions on social media, and watch videos of their live author interviews.
About the book: If you’re a fan of fantasy with magic and dark academia, this is your book club this month!
Follow Subtle Asian Book Club on social media: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Discord
All Access members, read on for the July book club picks of #ReadWithJenna, Good Morning America Book Club, Reese’s, and more.
TODAY Book Club, #ReadWithJenna
Happy Wife by Meredith Lavender and Kendall Shores
About the book club: Jenna Bush Hager—co-host of Today with Hoda & Jenna—independently chooses a book each month that she personally loves.
What Jenna said about the book: “The setting in a community outside of Orlando, with tons of secrets, is so much fun for the summer, and I found the women of this novel to be complex and interesting, while it being the type of mystery you can’t wait to finish.”
Follow Read With Jenna on social media: Instagram, Facebook, Read With Jenna Goodreads group
Good Morning America’s GMA Book Club
The Compound by Aisling Rawle
About the book club: Read along with Good Morning America Book Club, which aims to “showcase book picks from a wide range of compelling authors.”
What GMA said about the book: “Is it hot in here or is it just our July #GMABookClub pick? 🔥
The Compound by debut author Aisling Rawle offers a chilling, addictive look at how entertainment, control and survival collide when the cameras never stop rolling.
SWIPE for more details and head to our link in bio to start reading!”
The Stacks Book Club
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
About the book club: The Stacks is a podcast that chats all about books, and there’s a monthly book club. The book chosen for the month is discussed on the podcast in the last week of the month with a selected special guest.
What The Stacks Book Club said about the book: “It’s Toni Morrison month in The Stacks and we’re reading her final novel, God Help the Child. Originally published in 2015, the book explores the dynamics of mother and daughter relationships, beauty standards, and the ways that childhood suffering can shape adulthood. I am so looking forward to the rich discussions we’re sure to have around this novel. I hope you’ll read with us and join the conversation.”
Follow The Stacks on social media: Instagram, Facebook, TikTok
Mocha Girls Read
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
About the book club: Mocha Girls Read is a monthly book club of Black women who love to read. They currently have chapters in 14 cities across the United States. Anyone can join an Instagram Live every first Saturday of the month at 5 pm PT to hear Alysia, the founder of Mocha Girls Read, discuss the current book club selection.
What Mocha Girls Read said about the book: “The votes are in! After the nomination period and a week of voting, we’re excited to share the chosen title for our July 2025 book selection.
The Mocha Girl Read July 2025 Monthly Book Selection is The Reformatory by Tananarive Due. We encourage you to explore our upcoming read and prepare for a month of rich discussions.”
Follow Mocha Girls Read on social media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, MeetUp, Goodreads, Pinterest
Sapph-Lit
Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir by Walela Nehanda
About the book club: Born from TikTok, Sapph-Lit is a safe space book club for sapphic women and nonbinary readers to come together and chat books and life as well as offer each other support. One book a month is selected, alternating between fiction and nonfiction.
What Sapph-Lit said about the book: “A searing debut poetry and essay collection about a Black cancer patient who faces medical racism.”
The Audacious Book Club
Great Black Hope by Rob Franklin
About the book club: Author Roxane Gay (Bad Feminist, Ayiti, The Banks) selects a book every month with the goal of uplifting “authentic and necessary perspectives from writers who fearlessly share their stories.” Here are the Book Club FAQs.
What Roxane said about the book: “Great Black Hope is an accomplished, delicately brutal novel, one that is constructed on the foundation of irresolvable tensions: between class and race, between success and failure, between the home one claws to hold on to and the home one is struggling to let go. I’m looking forward to discussing this book with you throughout the month of July. We will be in conversation with Rob Franklin on 7/30 at 8 pm EST/5 pm PST. Register now!”
Follow Roxane Gay on social media: Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads
Reese’s Book Club
Spectacular Things by Beck Dorey-Stein
About the book club: Every month, Reese Witherspoon picks a book for Reese’s Book Club that centers a woman in its story.
What Reese said about the book: “Spectacular Things by @BeckDoreyStein follows sisters Mia and Cricket as they navigate an impossible choice that will change everything. Think sisterhood, sacrifice, and the golden age of women’s soccer all wrapped into one epic story.”
Follow Reese’s Book Club on social media: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube
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King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby
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