Belletrist: Emma Roberts' Book Club
Belletrist (Emma Roberts)
Emma Roberts is famously known as an actress, and the niece of Julia Roberts, but the young actress has also cultivated an intriguing niche for herself through her book club, Belletrist, which she runs with Karah Preiss. Belletrist features an independent bookstore each month along with their book selections. Belletrist is most active on Instagram and their Facebook group features discussions and interesting content relating to the bookstores and recommended reading. Belletrist features literary lifestyle content on their website in addition to their book selections including interviews, videos, the shelves of other celebrities, and content I haven't seen in other celebrity book clubs. Belletrist is unique and has found a healthy following among a more contemporary demographic.
The Belletrist book selection for November 2019 is Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me, by Adrienne Brodeur
The full list of selections:
March 2017 – South and West, by Joan Didion
April 2017 – The Rules Do Not Apply, by Ariel Levy
May 2017 – Marlena, by Julie Buntin
June 2017 – Touch, by Coutney Maum
July 2017 – Sex and Rage, by Eve Babitz
August 2017 – Stay With Me, by Ayobami Adebayo
September 2017 – The Answers, by Catherine Lacey
October 2017 – The Dark Dark: Stories, by Samantha Hunt
November 2017 – The End We Start From, by Megan Hunter
December 2017 – Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado
January 2018 – The Immortalists, by Chloe Benjamin
February 2018 – An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones
March 2018 – Ghost Notebooks, by Ben Dolnick
April 2018 – Laura and Emma, by Kate Greathead
May 2018 – Welcome to Lagos, by Chibundo Onuzo
June 2018 – Visible Empire, by Hannah Pittard
July 2018 – Dead Girls ,by Alice Bolin, and Godspeed, by Casey Legler
August 2018 – The Incendiaries, by R. O. Kwon
September 2018 – The Optimist's Daughter, by Eudora Welty
October 2018 – Scribe, by Alyson Hagy
November 2018 – Bringing Down the Colonel, by Patricia Miller
December 2018 – Dumplin’, by Julie Murphy
January 2019 - The Dreamers, by Karen Thompson Walker
February 2019 - Joy Enough, by Sarah McColl
March 2019 - Gingerbread, by Helen Oyeyemi
April 2019 - The Ash Family, by Molly Dektar
May 2019 - The Farm, by Joanna Ramos
June 2019 - Searching for Sylvie Lee, by Jean Kwok
July 2019 - Three Women, by Lisa Taddeo
August 2019 - Marilou is Everywhere, by Sarah Elaine Smith, and Family of Origin, by CJ Hauser
September 2019 - What Red Was, by Rosie Price
October 2019 - Red at the Bone, by Jaqueline Woodson
November 2019 - Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me, by Adrienne Brodeur