Dua Lipa

Dua Lipa is a British-Albanian singer-songwriter whose second album, Future Nostalgia, made her one of the defining pop artists of her generation. In 2022 she launched Service95, a newsletter and recommendation platform, and with it a book club that has become unusually substantial for a celebrity venture.

Each month she names one book and writes several paragraphs explaining what it did to her, often interviewing the author afterwards. The picks lean literary and international, with a marked interest in translated fiction, political memoir and writers from the Balkans and beyond. That she writes at length about every choice, rather than lending a name to a list, is what makes her recommendations worth reading.