When it comes to celebrity book nerds, you're probably pretty familiar with Reese Witherspoon's Reese's Book Club. But did you know Sarah Jessica Parker is also a bibliophile, with her own publishing imprint, SJP Lit? Cool, right? So when I recently noticed that both actresses have highlighted the same novel (a novel PureWow has also written about in the past), I had to make sure it was on your radar. The book in question? Seven Days in June by Tia Williams.
Reese Witherspoon and Sarah Jessica Parker Both Recommended the Same Book—& It's the Perfect Summer Read
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Published Jul 31, 2024
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Here's what you need to know: Seven Days of June came out in June 2021 and in the same month was selected for Reese's Book Club. At the time, Witherspoon hailed it as "A sexy, modern love story to start the summer off right." Just last week, Parker also featured it on her Instagram as a book to read "If you gravitate towards sweeping family stories and sumptuous writing." (She chose this particular selection of titles for their similarities to SJP Lit's upcoming novel They Dream in Gold by Mai Sennaar.)
Seven Days in June follows Eva, a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, and Shane, a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning novelist, who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York, where Eva lives. When the two meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising the eyebrows of the Black literati. What no one knows is that 15 years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. Over the next seven days, amidst a steamy summer, Eva and Shane reconnect, but will it be forever this time?
Sounds sexy, right? Reviewers are certainly hooked. One Amazon shopper raved, "Just finished this amazing read. I have to say this book has been recommended and mentioned so many times & I was not disappointed! The best book I’ve read in a very long time," while author Talia Hibbert (Get a Life, Chloe Brown) shared in a Goodreads review, "Reading this book was like being sucked into a VORTEX OF EMOTION. You know those books that carve out a place in your memory forever, the kind you could see on a stranger’s shelf in twenty years and immediately recognise as That One Book? Seven Days in June is one of those."
So make like Elle Woods and Carrie Bradshaw and add this steamy summer read to your beach bag.
