Dua Lipa Shares Latest Book Club Pick: See What She's Reading

Dua Lipa Service 95 bookclub Patti Smith Just Kids — Dua Lipa. Photo:
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Dua Lipa isn’t just one of today's buzziest performers but also a dedicated bookworm.

The "Dance The Night" and "Levitating" singer launched a book club in 2023 through her editorial platform Service95. Each month, Lipa picks a new book to read; one that highlights the club’s belief that literature can “represent diverse global voices, telling powerful stories spanning fiction, memoir and manifesto,” per the platform’s website.

Lipa also includes an abundance of bonus material with each selection, including author interviews, playlists and discussion guides. Service95 Recommends, an additional resource on the site, includes even more of Lipa’s favorite reads, along with picks from guests like Lisa Taddeo and Monica Lewinsky.

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Lipa's book club choices and bonus material can be accessed on the Service95 site. See all of her picks below:

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May 2024: 'Swimming in the Dark' by Tomasz Jedrowski

Told through a letter between lovers Ludwik and Janusz, this moving novel set against 1980s Communist Poland interweaves forbidden love with a rife political moment in Europe’s history. “It’s poetic and tender, burning with a quiet rage at the persecution the LGBTQ+ community in Poland has suffered for decades and continues to fight against today,” Lipa says.

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April 2024: 'Crying in H Mart' by Michelle Zauner

Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner — 'Crying in H Mart' by Michelle Zauner.
Knopf

The lead singer of indie rock project Japanese Breakfast shares a new, and personal, look at her life away from music. In this moving memoir, written with “raw honesty,” Zauner reflects on her Korean American identity, and her complicated relationship with her mother, who died from cancer in 2014. An ode to grief, food and family.

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March 2024: 'Trust' by Hernan Diaz

Diaz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel follows a wealthy Manhattan couple throughout the 1920s and ‘30s, and is told through a variety of formats: a novel, a memoir and a journal, to name a few. “I was obsessed and you might just be too,” Lipa says of the book.

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February 2024: 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' by Khaled Hosseini

The author of The Kite Runner pens “an illuminating story of the cultural and political history of Afghanistan” with this novel, says Lipa. The book follows two Kabul women whose lives become connected through war and fate.

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January 2024: 'The Guest' by Emma Cline

While chosen for Lipa’s January read, Emma Cline’s second novel is the perfect addition to your beach bag this summer. The novel follows the misadventures of a young woman, and her relationship with an older man, leading up to a Labor Day party. It “shimmers with tension” and “flirts with danger,” according to Lipa.

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November 2023: 'The Vanishing Half' by Brit Bennett

Bennett’s acclaimed second novel follows the Vignes twins — two sisters who are Black, one of which is White-passing, and the lives they live as adults. Lipa says the book “brilliantly surfaces a multitude of questions about race, class and gender.”

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October 2023: 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel García Márquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia — 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel García Márquez.
Harper Collins

Lipa calls this classic family saga “irresistible.” Bonus material for the book includes a conversation with the late author’s son and more information about the 1928 Colombia Banana Massacre, which inspired scenes in the sprawling, seminal novel.

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September 2023: 'Just Kids' by Patti Smith

Just Kids book cover Patti Smith — 'Just Kids' by Patti Smith.
Ecco

A musician’s memoir feels fitting for Lipa, who announced Just Kids, her only nonfiction pick so far, as her September book. Legendary punk singer and poet Patti Smith details her life as a young artist in 1960s and 1970s New York City, as well as her treasured friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, in this National Book Award-winning autobiography.

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August 2023: 'Half of a Yellow Sun' by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book cover — 'Half of a Yellow Sun' by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Courtesy of Vintage Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House

This 2006 novel, which takes place during the Nigerian Civil War (also known as the Biafran War) follows multiple characters as they navigate love and relationships during a time of political unrest. Lipa calls this book one of “love, jealousy, infidelity and forgiveness,” and author Adichie also wrote an exclusive essay about the importance of Igbo culture and language in writing.

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July 2023: 'Pachinko' by Min Jin Lee

Pachinko book cover Min Jin Lee — 'Pachinko' by Min Jin Lee.
Grand Central Publishing

Set in both Korea and Japan, Pachinko follows four generations of a Korean family, as well as their experiences with identity, womanhood and colonialism. Author Min Jin Lee was interested in the history of Koreans in Japan, as well as the popular game Pachinko, and writes about how these inspirations helped inform her novel.

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June 2023: 'Shuggie Bain' by Douglas Stuart

Shuggie Bain book cover Douglas Stewart — 'Shuggie Bain' by Douglas Stuart.
Courtesy of Grove Atlantic

Lipa has “a thing for heartbreaking books,” she said about her June pick. Shuggie Bain, set in Thatcher-era, working-class Scotland, focuses on the relationship between young Hugh (nicknamed Shuggie) and his alcoholic mother, Agnes. Bonus book club material includes a playlist inspired by the book’s Glasgow setting, which is also author Douglas Stuart’s hometown.

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