Reese Witherspoon’s New Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick

24 Oct 2019

Founded by Reese Witherspoon, the Hello Sunshine Book Club is designed to help celebrate women storytellers. Every month, Reese selects a new book that she loves and shares it with the community as her pick. Below you’ll find her latest book club selection and some from previous months. We hope you enjoy!

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January 2020

 

Such a Fun Age

by Kiley Reid

Release Date: December 31, 2019

The debut novel from Kiley Reid… Alix Chamberlain has made a living with her confidence-driven brand and showing other women how to do the same. She is shocked to discover that her babysitter, Emira Tucker, was confronted while watching the Chamberlains’ toddler one night. While she was in the local supermarket, a security guard noticed the black woman out late with a white child and accuses her of kidnapping two-year-old Brian. Alix resolves to make this right.

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December 2019

 

Conviction

by Denise Mina

Release Date: June 18, 2020

Anna McDonald’s day started off like all the days before. Getting the kids ready for school, making breakfast, listening to a true-crime podcast. Then everything changes when her husband comes down the stairs with an announcement. Suddenly she is all alone. She is left reeling and desperate for a distraction, so she returns to her podcast. She thinks other people’s problems are much better than her own. But the case she is listening to is her problem. She knows one of the victims from an earlier life. A life she went to great lengths to leave behind.

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November 2019

 

The Giver of Stars

by Jojo Moyes

Release Date: October 8, 2019

Alice Wright married American Bennett Van Cleve in hopes of escaping her life in England. But small-town Kentucky ends up being equally claustrophobic for her. Especially since she is also living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. Then an opportunity presents itself. A call has gone out for a team of women to deliver books for Eleanor Roosevelt’s new traveling library. She signs up immediately.

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October 2019

 

Fair Play

by Eve Rodsky

Release Date: September 24, 2019

Eve Rodsky was tired of being the “shefault” parent that was responsible for all aspects of her busy household. So she counted all of the invisible work she was doing for her family and sent it to her husband. With a request for things to change. His response was underwhelming. Rodsky realized that just identifying the issue of unequal home labor was not enough. She needed a solution to this problem. Her sanity, career, and marriage depended on it.

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September 2019

 

The Secrets We Kept

by Lara Prescott

Release Date: September 3, 2019

It was the height of the Cold War. Two secretaries were pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and offered an assignment of a lifetime. Their mission was to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR. No one there would publish Pastermak’s opus and their job was to get it into print around the world. Sally Forrester is a seasoned spy with a gift for deceit, while Irina is a complete novice. Under Sally’s tutelage, she will have to learn how to blend in and invisibly ferry classified documents.

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August 2019

 

The Last House Guest

by Megan Miranda

Release Date: June 18, 2019

Littleport, Maine is the ideal vacation spot for the wealthy. It is littered with summer homes along the coastline but is a simple harbor community for the year-round residents. Usually, friendships don’t from between the locals and visitors, but Sadie Loman and Avery Greer were different. Each summer for almost ten years, the girls were inseparable. That was until Sadie was found dead. The police ruled it as suicide but many in the community blame Avery. Intent on clearing her name, Avery tries to get to the bottom of the mystery.

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July 2019

 

Whisper Network

by Chandler Baker

Release Date: July 2, 2019

Sloane, Ardie, Grace, and Rosalita have all worked at Truviv Inc. for years. When the CEO of the company suddenly dies, their boss Ames is set to take over. There have always been whispers surrounding Ames and his treatment of women, but they have always been ignored and swept under the rug. Now Sloane and her colleagues are going to make a stand against him… But not everyone will survive.

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