7 Online Book Clubs You Can Join Virtually Today

Oprah’s Book Club

Oprah Winfrey’s book club is arguably America’s most influential literary hit-maker, turning unknown titles into massive bestsellers — from its early days on The Oprah Winfrey Show to its rebirth in 2012 in the pages of her magazine as “Oprah’s Book Club 2.0.” While some may snub their nose at her mass-market appeal, Winfrey has awfully good taste in books. You can hardly go wrong if you turn to the more than 100 books she has chosen through the years. Recent selections have included Let Us Descend from National Book Award-winning novelist Jesmyn Ward and Wellness by Nathan Hill. Go to OprahDaily.com for book-related articles and interviews. You can also sign up for a book club newsletter.

Los Angeles Times Book Club

This club hosts a community event with each of its authors, many of whom are heavyweights, from Barack Obama to Jane Goodall to Billie Jean King. Author and veteran news editor Donna Wares hosts the club, and the Times runs articles related to book selection topics.

Recent events have featured bestselling author Dean Koontz discussing his novel The Bad Weather Friend and Walter Isaacson on his biography of Elon Musk. You can sign up for a newsletter on the book club site and subscribers can watch videos of past events (including a conversation with Reading Rainbow founder LeVar Burton on banned books).

Read With Jenna

When Today show cohost Jenna Bush Hager launched her book club in 2019, it seemed like a perfect fit. Hager is a lifelong bibliophile and her mother, former first lady Laura Bush, launched a foundation to assist America’s libraries, one of her multiple literary endeavors. Hager’s club picks a new book every month, sometimes including great reads by new authors (The Measure, by Nikki Erlick), as well as literary faves such as Naima Coster and her novel What’s Mine and Yours. The book club site, housed under the Today show umbrella, offers discussion questions, author interviews, other book recommendations and a list of previous book club selections. Readers can sign up for a newsletter and post their book comments on Facebook and Instagram by using the hashtag #ReadWithJenna.