Reese Witherspoon Reading List

Guess who people are following for great reads recommendations? That's right Reese Witherspoon!

When your favorite celebs aren’t hard at work filming an upcoming movie or TV show, many love to dive into a good book. Academy Award–winning actress Reese Witherspoon is a self-professed bookworm, and her Instagram account has become a social media book club named #rwbookclub where she highlights the books she’s reading with artful photographs. Hundreds of fans chime in with their thoughts on her selections, and offer their recommendations as well.
Check out the Time Magazine article on Reese Witherspoon and building a powerful book club.
Reese is optioning books that have strong protagonist characters and making them into film. She has purchased the rights to Wild and Gone Girl which made for a remarkable first two movies racking up a collective three Oscar nominations and five Golden Globe nods. They both happened to stem from bestselling books. Reese and her partners started the company, Pacific Standard with one goal in mind: to develop and produce film and television with complex and interesting female characters.

Reese Witherspoon is adding to her literary bonafides by writing her own “lifestyle” book, which will celebrate her Southern roots. The so-far-untitled book by the actress, producer and book lover “will celebrate the American South’s signature style, grace, and charm and illustrate how 21st century women can incorporate these elements into everyday life”. The book will be published in 2018 by Touchstone and Simon & Schuster U.K. and will include color photographs and “personal essays about the people and places that influenced” Witherspoon.

Check out some of Witherspoon’s book recommendations from #rwbookclub.

1. Second Life by S.J. Watson

2. Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knolls

3. Ashley's War by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

5. All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

6. The Girl On the Train By Paula Hawkins

7. Little Big Lies by Liane Moriarty
8. You'll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein
9. The Dry by Jane Harper
10. The Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

11. Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
12. All Is Not forgotten by Wendy Walker

13. Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

14. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

15. Opening Belle by Maureen Sherry

16. In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Were

17. The Girls by Emma Cline
18. First Comes Love by Emily Griffin

19. The Outliers by Kimberly McCeight

21. Wild by Cherly Strayed

22. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
23. The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin

These are books that Reese Witherspoon has loved and her company Pacific Standard Films is set to create into movies.