(Updated May '26) The Full Dua Lipa's Book Club List
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What’s your favorite Dua Lipa’s Book Club pick?
If you love discovering books that feel a little more meaningful—stories that stay with you, challenge you, or simply make you see the world differently—then the Service95 Book Club is one to know.
Created by Dua Lipa in 2023, this book club is part of her global platform designed to spotlight powerful voices, important conversations, and stories from around the world. Each month, a new book is selected and often paired with deeper insights, interviews, or reflections that help you connect even more with the story.
What makes it stand out is the feeling behind the picks. These aren’t just popular books—they’re carefully chosen reads that explore identity, culture, relationships, and the complexities of real life.
It’s the kind of book club you turn to when you want more than just a good story—you want a reading experience that actually stays with you.
Happy Reading!
Table of Contents
Dua Lipa's Book Club 2026
So Late in the Day
by Claire Keegan
May ’26 Pick
Literary Fiction
Three quietly powerful stories trace the fragile space between men and women, where small choices carry lasting consequences. A man replays a lost relationship, a writer’s retreat is disrupted by an intrusive stranger, and a married woman’s impulsive escape turns dangerously wrong. But what begins as ordinary—regret, solitude, curiosity—slowly shifts into something darker, where what remains unsaid proves impossible to escape.
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Jerusalem
by Jez Butterworth
April ’26 Pick
Play/Contemporary Fiction
Johnny “Rooster” Byron lives on the edge of a rural English town, refusing to conform to anything society expects of him. As outsiders close in and pressure builds, his defiance turns explosive. What begins as resistance becomes something far more unpredictable—and impossible to control.
Bad Feminist
by Roxane Gay
March ’26 Pick
Nonfiction
Across sharp, personal essays, Roxane Gay explores feminism, culture, and identity with honesty and nuance. Moving between personal experience and cultural critique, she challenges expectations while embracing contradictions. Each piece feels like a conversation you don’t want to end.
The Son of Man
by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
February ’26 Pick
Literary Fiction
A boy grows up under the shadow of a distant, imposing father whose expectations shape everything. As he struggles to understand love, power, and identity, his world begins to fracture in quiet but devastating ways. What unfolds is both intimate and unsettling.
Night People
by Mark Ronson
January ’26 Pick
Nonfiction
Mark Ronson moves through the music and nightlife scenes that shaped him, from underground clubs to iconic moments. As he reflects on the people and places that defined his career, the energy feels electric—but fleeting. Beneath it all is a search for identity in a world built on sound.
Dua Lipa's Picks 2025
Brightly Shining
by Ingvild Rishøi
The Handmaid’s Tale
by Margaret Atwood
Flesh
by David Szalay
October ’25 Pick
Literary Fiction
István grows from an isolated Hungarian teenager into a man carried by chance, ambition, and the influence of others. Haunted by a tragedy from his youth, he moves through decades of reinvention until another crisis threatens the fragile life he has made.
The Trees
by Percival Everett
September ’25 Pick
Thriller
In Money, Mississippi, a string of brutal murders draws two detectives into a town resistant to the truth. Each crime scene reveals a chilling clue—a second body resembling Emmett Till. But as similar killings spread across the country, the case grows far more unsettling. Following a trail of buried histories, they uncover a past that refuses to stay silent—and a reckoning that cannot be stopped.
This House of Grief
by Helen Garner
Small Boat
by Vincent Delecroix
July ’25 Pick
Literary Fiction
In November 2021, a migrant boat capsizes in the English Channel, leaving twenty-seven people dead. A French navy officer—who took their calls for help—recounts the night, defending her actions as blame closes in. But her justifications begin to crack under the weight of what happened.
Widow Basquiat
by Jennifer Clement
Still Born
by Guadalupe Nettel
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
by Max Porter
There There
by Tommy Orange
March ’25 Pick
Literary Fiction
Twelve Native American characters make their way toward the Big Oakland Powwow, each carrying family wounds, cultural memory, and the desire to belong. As their lives intersect, Tommy Orange creates a powerful story of identity, survival, and the history that still shapes the present.
The Bee Sting
by Paul Murray
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
by Olga Tokarczuk
January ’25 Pick
Mystery
In a remote Polish village, Janina is dismissed as eccentric until a series of strange deaths makes her impossible to ignore. As she insists that animals may be taking revenge, the novel turns into a dark, sharp mystery about justice, cruelty, and the voices no one wants to hear.
Dua's Picks 2024
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong
Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders
October ’24 Pick
Literary Fiction
In 1862, as the Civil War rages, Abraham Lincoln is shattered by the death of his young son, Willie. In a crowded, ghostly bardo, Willie lingers among spirits who refuse to let go of life. But when Lincoln returns to his son’s crypt, his grief binds them together in ways that threaten Willie’s passage onward.
Bad Habit
by Alana S. Portero
September ’24 Pick
Literary Fiction
In a working-class Madrid marked by hardship and nightlife, a young trans girl struggles to belong in a world that feels both distant and dangerous. As she finds connection in figures like Margarita and experiences love and loss for the first time, she begins to imagine a life that feels true to her.
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Noughts & Crosses
by Malorie Blackman
August ’24 Pick
Young Adult Fiction
Sephy and Callum come from opposite sides of a deeply divided society where their love is forbidden. As they fight to stay together, the world around them turns increasingly hostile. What begins as hope becomes a dangerous rebellion—one that could cost them everything.
Swimming in the Dark
by Tomasz Jedrowski
May ’24 Pick
Literary Fiction
In 1980s Poland, Ludwik and Janusz fall in love during a summer away from the pressures of society. But when they return to Warsaw, politics, fear, and ambition begin to divide them, turning their forbidden romance into a painful choice between safety and truth.
Crying in H Mart
by Michelle Zauner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
The Guest
by Emma Cline
January ’24 Pick
Literary Fiction
After being cast out by her wealthy lover, Alex refuses to leave Long Island and spends one tense week slipping through its elite circles. Charming, reckless, and increasingly desperate, she survives by becoming whatever others want her to be—until every lie begins to close in
Dua's Book Club List 2023
The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
November ’23 Pick
Literary Fiction
After running away from their Southern hometown, twin sisters Desiree and Stella build opposite lives—one returning to her roots, the other passing as white. But when their daughters’ stories collide, long-buried secrets force the family to confront identity, choice, and the past that never truly disappears.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
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Just Kids
by Patti Smith
September ’23 Pick
Memoir
Patti Smith’s Just Kids traces her deep, formative relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe in 1960s and ’70s New York. As they struggle, create, and dream their way through the city’s artistic underground, their bond becomes both a love story and a lasting portrait of devotion, ambition, and becoming.
Half of a Yellow Sun
by Ngozi Adichie
Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
Shuggie Bain
by Douglas Stuart
