Dakota Johnson's book club is quickly becoming a place to focus on readers.
By her Teatime Pictures Entertainment Company The The The materialist Actress leads Teatime Book Club, an online platform for reading books.
Johnson, 35, picked a new book to read every month and posted “In-Dive” on Instagram, which includes reward material such as reading lists or author-curated playlists.
“There are a lot of people doing what I do, they have book clubs, and I always like it,” Johnson told Busy In 2024. “I think every time I read it I will fall a rabbit hole…Investment books, investment language, investment reference. Oh, what is the artwork she is talking about? Whose musician is that?transparent
See Johnson 2025 Bestseller Club Choices below.
August: Carrie R. Moore's “Go Home”
Carrie R. Moore's cover of “The Way to You Home”.
Tin Room Books
Johnson notes that Moore’s amazing first collection of short stories is located in the southern United States, which includes “a character who struggles to find love and belong after a painful history.”
July: Douglas Adams
The cover of Douglas Adams's “The Galaxy Hitchhiking Guide”.
Del Rey
This sci-fi classic is one of Johnson's favorites, and it details a man's journey through the universe with a bunch of aliens. It's surreal, page-turning, gut-funny.
June: Susan Choi's “Flashlight”
The cover of Susan Choi's “Flashlight”.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The latest novel by the National Book Award winner is a woman recalling her father’s mysterious disappearance as a child, while the tragedy reverberates into her way of adulthood.
“This will spin your head,” Johnson said of the book.
May: Katie Kitamura's “audience”
Katie Kitamura's “Audio” cover.
Riverhead Books
Kitamura's compact novel presents two alternative schedules in the lives of two people, which will leave a lasting impression on the readers.
Johnson said the book was “Mobius Strip of a fascinating novel, asking us who we are to the people we love, and this book will never be the same after this.”
April: Karen Russell's “Anti-Don't”
The cover of Karen Russell's Antidote.
Nopf
The book Johnson said “You Never Forget” traces the story of five people after a sandstorm that destroyed a small town in Nebraska. Among them is the antidote, his task is to hold the memories of the townspeople, so they don't have to do it – until her power mysteriously sweeps away.
March: Alejandro Heredia's “loca”
Alejandro Heredia cover.
Simon & Schuster
Heredia's annual debut in the lives of two friends – Sal, a book of “science nerd” and young mother Charo, as they consider their past, future and relationships with each other.
February: Lucy Rose's “The Lamb”
The cover of Lucy Rose's The Lamb.
Harper
Literature is horrible, is there anyone? Johnson laughed at the vivid and occasional novel about a mother and daughter, a novel with a unique appetite, “for fans of cannibal and mother issues,” Johnson laughed.
January: “Letter to Young Poets” by Rainer Maria Rilke
The cover of “Letter to Young Poets” written by Rainer Maria Rilke.
WW Norton & Company
Rilke's classic books, which collect letters from famous poets to a young and aspiring writer and officer cadet, have been loved by readers all over the world.
“It's so inspiring that it might just take you on your best year yet,” Johnson said of her first book club choice of the year.