Lipa Reveals 29 Book Club Picks

At a Glance

• Dua Lipa curates a monthly book club via her platform Service95, spotlighting global voices
• Selections range from Nobel winners to debut memoirs, each paired with playlists and author chats
• The club launched in June 2023 and already spans 29 titles through January 2026

**Why it matters: Fans get a deeply personal reading list straight from one of pop’s biggest stars.

• January 2026: Night People – Mark Ronson’s debut memoir on New York nightlife
• December 2025: Brightly Shining – Ingvild Rishøi’s Norwegian Christmas tale about two sisters
• November 2025: The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood’s dystopian classic that first “terrified” Lipa in high school

2025 Highlights

• October: Flesh by David Szalay, a decades-spanning portrait that “keeps you guessing”
• September: The Trees by Percival Everett, a literary thriller rooted in America’s history of lynchings
• August: This House of Grief by Helen Garner, a courtroom account Lipa calls “a forensic analysis of the human condition”
• July: Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix, a Booker-longlisted novella inspired by 2021 Channel drownings
• June: Widow Basquiat by Jennifer Clement, a love story set in 1980s New York
• May: Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel, a novel on friendship and motherhood
• April: Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter, where a human-sized crow helps a grieving family
• March: There There by Tommy Orange, a Pulitzer finalist following 12 Native Americans en route to a powwow
• February: The Bee Sting by Paul Murray, an Irish family saga that “sucks you into a whirlpool of tension”
• January: Drive Your Plow by Olga Tokarczuk, the 2018 Nobel winner about a reclusive woman caught in a murder probe

2024 Standouts

• November: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, an epistolary novel Lipa praises for its “poetic language”
• October: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, reimagining Willie Lincoln’s afterlife
• September: Bad Habit by Alana S. Portero, a Spanish coming-of-age story about a trans woman in Madrid
• July: Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman, a YA dystopia reversing racial power dynamics
• June: Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe, a nonfiction account of Northern Ireland’s Troubles
• May: Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski, a forbidden-love tale in 1980s Poland
• April: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner, the Japanese Breakfast memoir on grief and identity
• March: Trust by Hernan Diaz, a Pulitzer-winning 1920s Manhattan story told in multiple formats
• February: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, chronicling two Afghan women bound by war
• January: The Guest by Emma Cline, a beach-read thriller that “shimmers with tension”

Where It All Began

The first four picks set the tone:

• November 2023: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett on race and identity
• October 2023: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez with bonus material on Colombia’s Banana Massacre
• September 2023: Just Kids by Patti Smith, Lipa’s only nonfiction choice so far
• August 2023: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, set during the Nigerian Civil War
• July 2023: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, a multi-generational Korean family saga
• June 2023: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart, a Glasgow mother-son story Lipa calls “heartbreaking”

How to Follow Along

All selections, podcasts and bonus content live on the Service95 website under the Book Club tab. Lipa updates the list monthly, so readers can track past picks and prepare for upcoming announcements without missing a beat.

Key Takeaways

1. Dua Lipa treats her book club like a touring set list-curated, thematic and packed with surprises
2. Every title arrives with immersive extras: playlists, interviews and discussion guides
3. The roster already stretches from June 2023 to January 2026, proving the pop star’s literary stamina

Sources told News Of Losangeles the club will keep growing, but for now 29 carefully chosen books offer fans a backstage pass to Lipa’s reading life.