Kaia Gerber’s Book Club Library Science: See All of Her 2024 Picks

Mar. 15, 2025

Kaia Gerber.Photo:Jed Cullen/Dave Benett/Getty Images)

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Kaia Gerberis making a new name for herself as a proud literary connoisseur.TheBottomsactress, 22, began sharing her personal reading recommendations online in 2020. Gerber would take to Instagram Live, where she hosted weekly livestream discussions with her followers about her latest read, as well as conversations with the books' authors. Talking with everyone fromJane FondatoEmily Ratajkowski, Gerber’s astute taste quickly marked her as a reader to watch.In 2024, the model took her online book club to a new level. Gerber and Alyssa Reeder launchedLibrary Science, a book platform that curates books that “aren’t on the typical bestsellers list.” Featuring everything from translated literature to essay collections to plays, Library Science’s main goal is to “get young people reading” and foster a community of book lovers, all while highlighting underrepresented voices, debut authors and rising writers.The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now!Gerber continues to foster conversations with the authors she recommends, but takes her love of books to a new level with Library. The archived interviews are available to watch on Library Science’sYouTube channel, and Gerber usesInstagramto cultivate a community of book lovers, where she posts photos of writers she admires, her favorite bookstores and even which books are on authors' bedside tables.“I think that a big part, for me, of starting a book club is I did reach a point where I really resented [fame] and felt angry. Why do people get to take something from me when I leave my house?” Gerber told theWall Street Journalearlier this year. “And then all of a sudden, I was like, this gives me something. This can be a gift.”Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offerWhile the full list of Gerber’s book recommendations can be found on Library Science’swebsite, see below for all of Geber’s 2024 book club picks.

Kaia Gerberis making a new name for herself as a proud literary connoisseur.TheBottomsactress, 22, began sharing her personal reading recommendations online in 2020. Gerber would take to Instagram Live, where she hosted weekly livestream discussions with her followers about her latest read, as well as conversations with the books' authors. Talking with everyone fromJane FondatoEmily Ratajkowski, Gerber’s astute taste quickly marked her as a reader to watch.In 2024, the model took her online book club to a new level. Gerber and Alyssa Reeder launchedLibrary Science, a book platform that curates books that “aren’t on the typical bestsellers list.” Featuring everything from translated literature to essay collections to plays, Library Science’s main goal is to “get young people reading” and foster a community of book lovers, all while highlighting underrepresented voices, debut authors and rising writers.

The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now!Gerber continues to foster conversations with the authors she recommends, but takes her love of books to a new level with Library. The archived interviews are available to watch on Library Science’sYouTube channel, and Gerber usesInstagramto cultivate a community of book lovers, where she posts photos of writers she admires, her favorite bookstores and even which books are on authors' bedside tables.“I think that a big part, for me, of starting a book club is I did reach a point where I really resented [fame] and felt angry. Why do people get to take something from me when I leave my house?” Gerber told theWall Street Journalearlier this year. “And then all of a sudden, I was like, this gives me something. This can be a gift.”

Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offerWhile the full list of Gerber’s book recommendations can be found on Library Science’swebsite, see below for all of Geber’s 2024 book club picks.

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Amazon

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Barnes’ 1936 novel,Nightwood, is now considered a lesbian fiction classic, but it was her short stories that the author truly prized. This collection, which Gerber says feels like a “treasure,” anthologizes the best selections of Barnes' short fiction.

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Jane is placed on administrative leave from her tech job after a video of her goes viral. When she arrives at the office of Loyd, a crisis therapist, things only escalate in this blazing new play,now in previewsat Broadway’s Hayes Theater.

“This two-person psychological thriller touches on gender politics, power, our emotional connection to content, careerism, moral obligation, and what it means to be a citizen of the internet,” Library Sciencewrites.

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FSG Originals

This sharp novella and character study, which follows a Rio de Janeiro art curator who curates her life in excess, explores Brazilian art, culture and the unflattering realities of wealth. Dubbed a “class-consciousness awakening,” Library Sciencewritesthat they “can’t recommend this book enough.”

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Penguin Press

Gabriel, the protagonist of this modern gothic novel, is grieving the recent loss of his father. When he moves back into his family home after a recent breakup, Gabriel finds his parents' unfinished manuscripts, which, along with a mysterious home video, soon begin to haunt Gabriel in a myriad of bizarre ways.“We really can’t stop talking about it … and cannot wait for you to read it,” Library Sciencewrites.

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Knopf

This multigenerational saga follows three members of the same family: Mai, who left China for America at the height of the Cultural Revolution; Lily, Mai’s daughter who formed her own path in New York and Nick, Lily’s son who is set on uncovering the secrets his family has hid from him over the years. A potent read about identity and inheritance.

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Counterpoint

An iconic Los Angeles novel,Sex and Ragefollows Jacaranda, a young woman who, tired of her beach-centric life in California, heads to New York for a fresh start. Gerberdiscussed the lasting influenceof this 1979 novel with singerGracie Abrams.

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New Directions

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Violence has long haunted poet and addict Cyrus Shams, who lost both of his parents early in his life. Cyrus, who’s cultivated an interest in martyrs, begins to explore his family’s past in order to write a book on the subject — and comes face-to-face with secrets that might provide the meaning he’s been looking for.“It quickly (very quickly) became one of our favorite new books,” Library Sciencewritesof the novel.

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