See All of Katie Couric’s 2026 Book Club Selections, So Far

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The journalist launched ‘KCBC’ (Katie Couric’s Book Club) this year, to encourage others to pick up a new read

Katie Couric has launched a book club! On Jan. 13, the journalist, 69, exclusively shared with PEOPLE that she will be leading the latest celebrity book club. Couric launched KCBC (short for Katie Couric’s Book Club), in order to help herself unplug, she said in an interview.

“I love to read,” Couric tells PEOPLE. “And I found that keeping up with current events, scrolling social media — doomscrolling more often than not — was just taking too much of my headspace and not leaving me with enough time to read great books.”

After she turned to her 2.1 million Instagram followers to see if they’d be interested in potentially joining a book club, she soon learned she wasn’t alone. “I think a lot of people are feeling they spend too much time on their phones,” Couric adds. “It’s not just a problem for teenagers, it’s a problem for adults too.” As such, Couric hopes her book club helps both her and her fans meet their reading goals. “I’m just going to pick one [title] and hope that people like it and that they’re excited by it,” she says. See below for all of Couric’s 2026 book club selections.

The Lessons in Chemistry author returns with a novel set in 1980s New York, in which a recent grad takes a job at a prestigious literary magazine only to find himself embroiled in the drama between the twin co-editors and the rest of the staff.

After losing her mother during the Sept. 11 attacks, Molly Fitzgerald, the protagonist of Picoult’s latest novel, dedicates her life to emergency preparation. In adulthood, she helms the Rhode Island Department for Emergency Preparedness, and has found a kinship with her husband Jesse. But when a sudden change rocks their marriage, the couple are forced to confront the unexpected.

In this suspense novel, a tragedy lands 15-year-old Lenny at a Washington boarding school, leading her to become immersed in an elite world of privilege and secrets. Lenny is also drawn to the Pascalianum Club, a secret society that may be more sinister than it seems.

Gretchen Falk is hesitant to allow her husband, Richard, to attend a hiking expedition on Mount Kilimanjaro. When he returns, accused of the murder of one of his fellow travelers, Gretchen must confront the man she thought she knew, in this thrilling read.

Daphne Fuller and her husband don’t expect to be trailed by an elderly stranger while visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art. What’s more, they aren’t prepared for the man to be Daphne’s former stepfather, who she hasn’t spoken to since a fateful childhood incident. This moving novel centers on family, reconnection and the passing of time.

In Strout’s tender novel, high school teacher Artie Dam secretly hides feelings of isolation from the people in his life. But after a near-death experience and learning about a long-buried secret, Artie is forced to re-examine everything.

Everett’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel reimagines Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , this time from the perspective of Jim, a formerly enslaved man.

After Polly’s book club jokingly gifts her a DNA test kit, the unexpected results thrust her into a deep excavation of her family history. It’s a bighearted novel that touches on family, the importance of female friendship, caring for aging parents and fertility.

Theo is a stranger in the city of Golden, who purchases portraits of locals that hang out in its coffee shop. As he returns each piece to its owner, what unfolds over the course of this tender novel changes everyone’s lives forever.

One of 2025’s buzziest books, Evans’ epistolary novel follows Sybil Van Antwerp, a retiree who writes letters to everyone from her brother to famous authors. But correspondence written by a person from her past forces Sybil to reckon with what it means to forgive.

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Source: Lifestyle