Dua Lipa's Book Club: See What the Star Is Reading

Mar. 15, 2025

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Dua Lipaisn’t just one of today’s buzziest performers but also a dedicated bookworm.The “Dance The Night” and “Levitating” singer launched a book club in 2023 through her editorial platformService95. Each month, Lipa picks a new book to read; one that highlights the club’s belief that literature can “represent diverse global voices, telling powerful stories spanning fiction, memoir and manifesto,” per the platform’s website.Lipa also includes an abundance of bonus material with each selection, including author interviews, playlists and discussion guides.Service95 Recommends, an additional resource on the site, includes even more of Lipa’s favorite reads, along with picks from guests likeLisa TaddeoandMonica Lewinsky.Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human-interest stories.Lipa’s book club choices and bonus material can be found on theService95 site. See all of her picks below:

Dua Lipaisn’t just one of today’s buzziest performers but also a dedicated bookworm.The “Dance The Night” and “Levitating” singer launched a book club in 2023 through her editorial platformService95. Each month, Lipa picks a new book to read; one that highlights the club’s belief that literature can “represent diverse global voices, telling powerful stories spanning fiction, memoir and manifesto,” per the platform’s website.

Lipa also includes an abundance of bonus material with each selection, including author interviews, playlists and discussion guides.Service95 Recommends, an additional resource on the site, includes even more of Lipa’s favorite reads, along with picks from guests likeLisa TaddeoandMonica Lewinsky.

Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human-interest stories.Lipa’s book club choices and bonus material can be found on theService95 site. See all of her picks below:

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Knopf

Orange’s acclaimed novel follows 12 Native American characters whose stories intersect when they travel to the Big Oakland Powwow.“Among the tragedy that is foreshadowed throughout, there is also redemption and humanity,” Lipa says of the book, which was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.

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FSG

This sprawling saga follows the Barnes family as parents Dickie and Imelda and children Cass and PJ, experience a host of trials and tribulations while living in their small Irish community. “As the book builds pace, it sucks you into a whirlpool of tension, where all escape routes are cut off,” Lipa says of the novel.

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Riverhead Books; Reprint edition/Amazon

Tokarczuk’s novel about a reclusive woman who becomes intertwined in a murder investigation after her neighbors' deaths won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. It’s the perfect pick for a cold winter’s night. “Darkly humorous, deadly serious and with a quirky cast of characters that will stay with you forever, this is definitely not to be missed,” Lipa says of the book.

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Written as a letter from the narrator, Little Dog, to his mother, a Vietnamese immigrant who cannot speak English, Lipa says this stunning novel has “poetic language [that] dances on every page.”

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Amazon

Saunders’ acclaimed novel reimagines the story of Willie Lincoln, the son of former President Abraham Lincoln, and the purgatory the boy must navigate after his death at 11 years old. “The voices of these spirits — the wretched and the brave, and the dead boy Willie Lincoln — will stay with me forever,” Lipa says.

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“This is an important book, one that reminds us of the often painful and treacherous reality of growing up trans,” Lipa says. “This is a book to savor.”

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Puffin

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Doubleday

This gripping historical account explores the conflict in Northern Island through the lens of Jean McConville, a woman whose abduction and murder kicked off a national conversation about violence within the country.

Lipa calls this book “a masterclass in the art of the ‘nonfiction novel.’”

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William Morrow

Told through a letter between lovers Ludwik and Janusz, this moving novel set against 1980s Communist Poland interweaves forbidden love with a fraught political moment in Europe’s history.

“It’s poetic and tender, burning with a quiet rage at the persecution the LGBTQ+ community in Poland has suffered for decades and continues to fight against today,” Lipa says.

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The lead singer of indie rock project Japanese Breakfast shares a new, personal look at her life away from music. In this moving memoir, written with “raw honesty,” Zauner reflects on her Korean American identity, and her complicated relationship with her mother, who died from cancer in 2014. An ode to grief, food and family.

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Penguin Random House

Diaz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel follows a wealthy Manhattan couple throughout the 1920s and ‘30s, and is told through a variety of formats: a novel, a memoir and a journal, to name a few.

“I was obsessed and you might just be too,” Lipa saysof the book.

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The author ofThe Kite Runnerpens “an illuminating story of the cultural and political history of Afghanistan” with this novel, says Lipa. The book follows two Kabul women whose lives become connected through war and fate.

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While chosen for Lipa’s January read, Emma Cline’s second novel is the perfect addition to your beach bag this summer. The novel follows the misadventures of a young woman, and her relationship with an older man, leading up to a Labor Day party. It “shimmers with tension” and “flirts with danger,” according to Lipa.

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Bennett’s acclaimed second novel follows the Vignes twins — two sisters who are Black, one of whom is White-passing, and the lives they live as adults. Lipa says the book “brilliantly surfaces a multitude of questions about race, class and gender.”

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Harper Collins

Lipa calls this classic family saga “irresistible.” Bonus material for the book includes aconversation with the late author’s sonand more information about the 1928Colombia Banana Massacre, which inspired scenes in the sprawling, seminal novel.

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Ecco

A musician’s memoir feels fitting for Lipa, whoannouncedJust Kids,her only nonfiction pick so far, as her September book. Legendary punk singer and poetPatti Smithdetails her life as a young artist in 1960s and 1970s New York City, as well as her treasured friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, in this National Book Award-winning autobiography.

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Courtesy of Vintage Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House

This 2006 novel, which takes place during the Nigerian Civil War (also known as the Biafran War) follows multiple characters as they navigate love and relationships during a time of political unrest. Lipa calls this book one of “love, jealousy, infidelity and forgiveness,” and author Adichie also wrotean exclusive essayabout the importance of Igbo culture and language in writing.

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Grand Central Publishing

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Courtesy of Grove Atlantic

source: people.com