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Dakota Johnson’s book club pick for this month is already on everyone’s TBR, so she made sure her brand, TeaTime Pictures, made it their October 2025 pick!
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On Oct 1, Johnson’s book club announced who the October pick would be. She shared the update with the caption reading, “This month we’re reading THE WILDERNESS by Angela Flournoy. It’s so special. It’s an era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship, as they move through the dizzying and sometimes precarious period between young adulthood and midlife. And, ahem, it’s longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction! 🤍⭐️🤍”
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Dakota Johnson’s October 2025 Book Club Pick Is ‘Era-Defining’ Novel
The Wilderness: A Novel by Angela Flournoy
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Described as “an era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship,” this novel goes into the complexities of these five characters’ lives with wit, humor, and compassion.
The Wilderness follows five women named Desiree, Danielle, January, Monique, and Nakia and their journeys through “contemporary adulthood,” from marriage to big city lives. Their friendship started in the 2000s, and goes to the 2020s of today; and there’s so much with all of their stories.
Sisters Desiree and Danielle have to work through bitter family trauma, while January is figuring out her feelings for a “good” man after her surprise pregnancy. Monique finds herself in the middle of unexpected online fame after calling out the university she works for, while Nakia is trying to get her restaurant off the ground all by herself; with the odds stacked against her.
Plus, this book is quite beloved having become a National Bestseller, Finalist for the 2025 Kirkus Prize for Fiction, and Longlisted for 2025 National Book Award for Fiction!
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