From Oprah to Reese Witherspoon, Kaia Gerber and now Dua Lipa the celebrity book club trend has never been more popular. But do they have the same influence as they once did?
When Dua Lipa spent one rare, sunny London day during the pandemic sunbaking in her backyard, her book of choice was Hanya Yanagihara's polarising behemoth A Little Life, which clocks in at a whopping 720 pages.Loading Twitter content
"Oprah Winfrey, fairy godmother?" Nielsen wrote at the time. "For many in the publishing world, that's not far off." One of Oprah's most famous and controversial picks was A Million Little Pieces by James Frey, an autobiography in which parts were later revealed to be exaggerated. "It's one of those things where authors might have complained but their publishers certainly wouldn't."
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