{"id":58597,"date":"2025-10-10T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=58597"},"modified":"2025-10-08T11:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T16:58:06","slug":"octobers-celebrity-book-club-picks-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/octobers-celebrity-book-club-picks-5\/","title":{"rendered":"October’s Celebrity Book Club Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bestsellers Club<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0a service that automatically places you on hold for authors, celebrity picks, nonfiction picks, and fiction picks. Choose any author, celebrity pick, fiction pick, and\/or nonfiction pick and The Library will put the latest title on hold for you automatically. Select as many as you want! Still have questions? Click\u00a0here\u00a0<\/a>for a list of FAQs.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a new month which usually means that Jenna Bush Hager and Reese Witherspoon have picked new books for their book clubs! Slight change for October 2025: Reese Witherspoon doesn’t have a pick for this month! Instead she is taking readers along with her on tour for her new book, Gone Before Goodbye<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, that she wrote with Harlan Cobem. Reminder that if you join Bestsellers Club<\/a>, you can choose to have their selections automatically put on hold for you.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Jenna Bush Hager has selected\u00a0The Irish Goodbye<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Heather Aimee O’Neill for her October pick.<\/p>\n

Curious what The Irish Goodbye<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been years since the three Ryan sisters were all together at their beloved family home on the eastern shore of Long Island. Two decades ago, their lives were upended by an accident on their brother Topher\u2019s boat: A friend\u2019s brother was killed, the resulting lawsuit nearly bankrupted their parents, and Topher spiraled into depression, eventually taking his life. Now the Ryan women are back for Thanksgiving, eager to reconnect, but each carrying a heavy secret. The eldest, Cait, still holding guilt for the role no one knows she played in the boat accident, rekindles a flame with her high school crush: Topher\u2019s best friend and the brother of the boy who died. Middle sister, Alice, has been thrown a curveball that threatens the career she\u2019s restarting and faces a difficult decision that may doom her marriage. And the youngest, Maggie, is finally taking the risk of bringing the woman she loves home to meet her devoutly Catholic mother. Infusing everything is the grief for Topher that none of the Ryans have figured out how to carry together.<\/em><\/p>\n

When Cait invites a guest from their shared past to Thanksgiving dinner, old tensions boil over and new truths surface, nearly overpowering the flickering light of their family bond. Far more than a family holiday will be ruined unless the sisters can find a way to forgive themselves\u2014and one another.<\/em> – Henry Holt and Co.<\/p>\n

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Join\u00a0Bestsellers Club<\/a> to have Jenna and Reese\u2019s adult selections automatically put on hold for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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