Dakota Johnson’s Book Club: See All Of Her 2025 Picks

August: ‘Make Your Way Home’ by Carrie R. Moore

Moore’s stunning debut short story collection is set in the American South, and features “characters who struggle to find love and belonging in the wake of painful histories,” Johnson notes.

July: ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ by Douglas Adams

This sci-fi classic, which is one of Johnson’s favorites, details one man’s eventful journey across the universe with a group of aliens. It’s surreal, page-turning and gut-bustingly funny.

June: ‘Flashlight’ by Susan Choi

The latest novel from the National Book Award winner follows a woman looking back at her father’s mysterious disappearance when she was a child — and the way the tragedy reverberates into her adulthood.

“It will make your head spin in the best way,” Johnson says of the book.

May: ‘Audition’ by Katie Kitamura

Kitamura’s compact novel, which unfurls two alternative timelines in the lives of two people, is one that will leave a lasting impression on its readers.

Johnson says the book is “a mesmerizing Mobius strip of a novel that asks who we are to the people we love,” and that “you’ll never be the same after this one.”

April: ‘The Antidote’ by Karen Russell

This book, which Johnson says “you’ll never forget,” traces the stories of five people in the aftermath of a dust storm that devastated their Nebraska town. That includes The Antidote, who is tasked with holding the memories of the townspeople so they don’t have to — until her power is mysteriously swept away.

March: ‘Loca’ by Alejandro Heredia

Heredia’s debut charts a year in the life of two friends — Sal, a bookish “science nerd” and Charo, a young mother — as they consider their pasts, futures and relationship with one another.

February: ‘The Lamb’ by Lucy Rose

Literary horror, anyone? This vivid and occasionally gory novel about a mother and daughter with a unique appetite, is just right “for fans of cannibalism and mommy issues,” Johnson teases.

January: ‘Letters to a Young Poet’ by Rainer Maria Rilke

Rilke’s classic book, which collects the letters that the famed poet sent to a young aspiring writer and officer cadet, has long been beloved by readers around the world.

“It’s so inspiring, it may just set you on a journey to the best year yet,” Johnson said of her first book club selection of the year.