A cookbook club can range from a few friends to over 20, depending on space. "My Brooklyn club meets at a bookstore, so ...

From Oscar-winning actors to morning news hosts and Grammy-winning pop stars, here are the celebrity book clubs that are inspiring their fans to read.

The point was not the reading—it was the friendship. Addressing the complaint that her writing wasn’t uplifting enough, Flannery O’Connor once quipped, “One old lady who wants her heart lifted up ...