Reese's Book Club is one of the most powerful engines in publishing. With millions of readers and a monthly pick that regularly becomes a bestseller, Reese and her team spotlight emotionally rich, character-driven novels — often by women — that people actually finish and recommend. These are the books that quietly take over book clubs, group chats, and waiting lists at the library.
By Charlotte McConaghy
On the remote, storm-lashed island of Shearwater, widowed lighthouse keeper Dominic Salt and his three children are the last guardians of a vast seed vault as rising seas threaten to swallow the land. Their uneasy routine is shattered when Rowan, a mysterious stranger, washes ashore after a shipwreck, carrying secrets of her own. As Rowan heals and is drawn into the family's orbit, she begins to suspect that something terrible happened on the island before she arrived. Suspicion, grief, and buried guilt collide with the brutal Antarctic elements in a story of survival, trust, and the fragile hope of renewal.
By Eliana Ramage
To the Moon and Back follows Steph Harper, a determined Cherokee girl whose childhood escape from an abusive father propels her lifelong obsession with becoming an astronaut. Growing up in Oklahoma, she aims for NASA as a way to get as far from home as possible, even if it means straining every relationship that matters to her. Spanning decades and continents, the novel traces Steph's bond with her artistic sister, her first great love, and her secretive mother, exploring how ambition, heritage, and family loyalty pull her in competing directions without offering easy answers.
By Ashley Jordan
Once Upon a Time in Dollywood follows Eve Ambroise, a rising playwright whose life is falling apart after a brutal year of loss, heartbreak, and creative burnout. Fleeing Brooklyn for her late grandmother's cabin near Dollywood in the Tennessee mountains, she pretends she's on a simple writing retreat. Her plans for solitude crumble when she meets Jamie Gallagher, the kind but guarded single dad next door, still reeling from a painful custody battle. As Eve is drawn into Jamie's world and the small town around them, a tentative connection forces her to confront grief, vulnerability, and the possibility of a second chance at joy.
By Beck Dorey-Stein
Spectacular Things follows sisters Mia and Cricket Lowe and their single mother, Liz, in a small Maine town where soccer is both a passion and a promise. As responsible, bookish Mia shoulders caretaking duties so exuberant, gifted Cricket can chase an elite athletic career, the family's sacrifices mount alongside expectations. When buried truths from Liz's past and Mia's search for independence collide with Cricket's rise toward the sport's highest stage, each woman must confront what she owes her family versus herself. The novel centers on ambition, loyalty, and the painful, tender limits of how far love can stretch without breaking.
By Allison King
Allison King's The Phoenix Pencil Company follows Monica, a college student and coder who returns home to care for her ailing grandmother, Yun, and stumbles onto a buried family history. As Yun begins to forget, Monica learns about the Phoenix Pencil Company her family once ran in WWII-era Shanghai and the strange, secret power tied to its pencils. Chapters alternate between Monica's present-day digital diary and Yun's old letters, revealing how stories, memory, and a mysterious gift have shaped their lives. Torn between ambition and responsibility, Monica must decide what to do with the legacy she uncovers.
By Emily Henry
In Great Big Beautiful Life, aspiring journalist Alice Scott travels to the secluded Georgia island of Little Crescent for the opportunity that could launch her career: interviewing reclusive heiress and former tabloid darling Margaret Ives for a potential biography. Her plans are upended when she discovers she's competing with Hayden Anderson, a guarded, Pulitzer-winning biographer with his own stake in the project. Given one month to win Margaret's favor—while bound by strict NDAs and fed only fragments of the truth—Alice and Hayden navigate clashing ambitions, buried family secrets, and an unsettling attraction that complicates everything at stake.
By Emily Everett
All That Life Can Afford follows Anna Byrne, a young working-class American who moves to London for a master's degree, hoping the city will give her a more glamorous future. Struggling to pay rent and juggling low-paid tutoring jobs, she's suddenly swept into the orbit of the wealthy Wilder family and flown to Saint-Tropez to tutor their teenage daughter. Immersed in parties, luxury, and new romantic possibilities, Anna begins to reinvent herself, hiding the truth of her background. As her two worlds collide, she must decide what belonging really means and what it's worth to keep the life she's chasing.
By Clare Leslie Hall
Set between the 1950s and late 1960s in rural Dorset, Broken Country follows Beth, a farmer's wife still haunted by her youthful love for Gabriel Wolfe, now a famous novelist who suddenly returns to their village with his young son. As Beth and her steady husband Frank struggle with unresolved grief and the strains of farm life, Gabriel's reappearance forces her to confront old passions, stark class divides, and the life she might have had. Moving between past and present, the novel slowly reveals a tragic event and a looming court case that threaten to shatter the fragile future Beth is trying to hold together.
By Allegra Goodman
Set in 16th-century France and the wilds of New France, Isola follows Marguerite, a young noblewoman whose promising life collapses when she is orphaned and placed under the power of a cruel guardian. Forced to join his colonial expedition across the Atlantic, she finds unexpected love with his servant, awakening a defiant sense of self. When their bond is discovered, Marguerite is cast into a harsh, remote island world where every day becomes a test of endurance. The novel traces her journey from sheltered heir to fierce survivor, exploring faith, desire, and the cost of freedom.
By Kate Fagan
Kate Fagan's The Three Lives of Cate Kay follows a reclusive, bestselling author who has built her career on hiding from the past, reinventing herself under new names whenever the truth comes too close. As a teenager in upstate New York, she and her best friend Amanda dreamed of escaping to Hollywood, but a sudden tragedy the day before they leave shatters everything and sends her running. Years later, when a closeted movie star seeks out the mysterious writer behind the Cate Kay persona, she is finally forced to confront buried secrets about friendship, love, and who she really is.
By Rebecca Armitage
In The Heir Apparent, Lexi Villiers is a young doctor in Tasmania who has worked hard to build a quiet, ordinary life far from the British monarchy she abandoned. Her world shatters when a helicopter lands on New Year's Day with news that her father and brother have died in a skiing accident, leaving Lexi unexpectedly next in line to the throne. Forced back to London, she faces hostile press, bitter palace rivalries, and a grandmother who gives her one year to choose: reclaim her royal destiny or return to the life, career, and love she left behind.
Reese's Book Club is one of the most powerful engines in publishing. With millions of readers and a monthly pick that regularly becomes a bestseller, Reese and her team spotlight emotionally rich, character-driven novels — often by women — that people actually finish and recommend. These are the books that quietly take over book clubs, group chats, and waiting lists at the library.