{"id":59922,"date":"2026-02-03T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=59922"},"modified":"2026-01-29T08:47:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:47:32","slug":"januarys-celebrity-book-club-picks-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/januarys-celebrity-book-club-picks-5\/","title":{"rendered":"January’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 means that Jenna Bush Hager and Reese Witherspoon have picked new books for their book clubs! Oprah has also recently announced a new pick. Reminder that if you join\u00a0Bestsellers 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\u00a0Homeschooled<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Stefan Merrill Block for her January pick.<\/p>\n

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

A heartbreaking, empowering and often hilarious debut memoir about a mother\u2019s all-consuming love, a son\u2019s perilous quest to discover the world beyond the front door and the unregulated homeschool system that impacts millions like him<\/em><\/p>\n

Stefan Merrill Block was nine when his mother pulled him from school, certain that his teachers were \u201cstifling his creativity.\u201d Hungry for more time with her boy who was growing up too quickly, she began to instruct Stefan in the family\u2019s living room. Beyond his formal lessons in math, however, Stefan was largely left to his own devices and his mother\u2019s erratic whims, such as her project to recapture her twelve-year-old son’s early years by bleaching his hair and putting him on a crawling regimen.<\/em><\/p>\n

Years before homeschooling would become a massive nationwide movement, at a time when it had just become legal in his home state of Texas, Stefan vanished into that unseen space and into his mother\u2019s increasingly eccentric theories and projects. But when, after five years away from the outside world, Stefan reentered the public school system in Plano as a freshman, he was in for a jarring awakening.<\/em><\/p>\n

At once a novelistic portrait of mother and son, and an illuminating window into an overlooked corner of the American education system, Homeschooled is a moving, funny and ultimately inspiring story of a son\u2019s battle for a life of his own choosing, and the wages of a mother\u2019s insatiable love.<\/em> – Hanover Square Press<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Reese Witherspoon has selected The First Time I Saw Him<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Laura Dave for her January pick.<\/p>\n

Curious what\u00a0The First Time I Saw Him<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/a>is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

How far would you go for a second chance?<\/em><\/p>\n

Five years after her husband, Owen, disappeared, Hannah Hall and her stepdaughter, Bailey, have settled into a new life in Southern California. Together, they\u2019ve forged a relationship with Bailey\u2019s grandfather Nicholas and are putting the past behind them.<\/em><\/p>\n

But when Owen shows up at Hannah\u2019s new exhibition, she knows that she and Bailey are in danger again.<\/em><\/p>\n

Hannah and Bailey are forced to go on the run in a relentless race to keep their past from catching up with them. As a thrilling drama unfolds, Hannah risks everything to get Bailey to safety\u2014and finds there just might be a way back to Owen and their long-awaited second chance.<\/em> – Scribner<\/p>\n

This title is also available in large print.<\/p>\n

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Join\u00a0Bestsellers Club<\/a>\u00a0to have Oprah, Jenna, and Reese\u2019s adult selections automatically put on hold for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bestsellers Club\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?[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9934,10,5,1,8],"tags":[5293,9989,6096,11598,5789,1765,11599,11600],"class_list":["post-59922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bestsellers-club","category-books","category-read-a-likes","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-readwithjenna","tag-bestsellers-club","tag-celebrity-pick","tag-homeschooled","tag-laura-dave","tag-reese-witherspoon","tag-stefan-merrill-block","tag-the-first-time-i-saw-him"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-fAu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59922"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60925,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59922\/revisions\/60925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}