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Dakota Johnson’s reading club quickly becomes the ideal place for close readers.
Launched in 2024 through his Teathe time entertainment company Materialists The actress directs Teatime’s reading club, an online platform for book lovers everywhere.
Johnson, 35, chooses a new book to read monthly and publishes a “deep dive” in the selection on Instagram, which includes bonus equipment such as a reading list or a reading list organized by the author.
“There are a lot of people who do things like me and they have reading clubs, and I have always said to myself:” Oh, the way I read books, it’s so different, “said Johnson Rushing In 2024. “I want to fall into the burrow of the rabbit every time I read … to invest in the book, invest in the language, invest in references. As, Oh, what is this work of art she talks about? Who is this musician?“”
See all Johnson Time reading club selections in 2025 below.
August: “Make Your Way Home” by Carrie R. Moore
Tin house books
The superb collection of news from Moore takes place in the South American and presents “characters who find it difficult to find love and to belong to the suite of painful stories”, notes Johnson.
July: “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams
King
This classic fiction classic, which is one of Johnson’s favorites, details the hectic journey of a man through the universe with a group of foreigners. It is surrealist, the shooting of pages and the funny Gut Gut.
June: ‘Pocket lamp’ by Susan Choi
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The latest novel by the National Book Award laureate follows a woman looking back the mysterious disappearance of her father when she was a child – and the way the tragedy has repercussions in her adulthood.
“It will make you turn your head in the best way,” says Johnson about the book.
May: “hearing” by Katie Kitamura
Riverhead Books
Kitamura’s compact novel, which deploys two alternative deadlines in the lives of two people, is the one that will leave a lasting impression on its readers.
Johnson says that the book is “a fascinating gang of a novel that asks who we are to people that we love” and that “you will never be the same after this one”.
April: “The antidote” of Karen Russell
Knopf
This book, which Johnson says “You will never forget”, traces the stories of five people the day after a dust storm which devastated their city in Nebraska. This includes the antidote, which is responsible for holding the memories of the city dwellers so that they do not have to – until its power is mysteriously swept.
March: “Loca” by Alejandro Heredia
Simon and Schuster
The beginnings of Heredia a year in the life of two friends – Sal, a “scientific nerd” and Charo, a young mother – while they consider their past, their future and their relationships with each other.
February: Lucy Rose’s “Lamb”
Harp
Literary horror, someone? This lively and sometimes bloody novel about a mother and a daughter with a unique appetite, is just “for fans of cannibalism and mom’s problems”, teases Johnson.
January: “Letters to a young poet” by Rainer Maria Rilke
Ww Norton & Company
The classic book of Rilke, which collects the letters that the famous poet sent to a young budding writer and cadet officer, has long been loved by readers around the world.
“It’s so inspiring, it could take you on a trip to the best year to date,” said Johnson about his first selection of reading clubs for the year.
