Dua Lipa‘s November pick for her Service95 book club is ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous‘ by Ocean Vuong. The novel is told in the form of a letter by a young man called Little Dog to his illiterate Vietnamese mother as he flits between past and present to make sense of their relationship and his upbringing. Told in Vuong’s signature poetic language, the story slowly reveals the layers of intergenerational trauma left by war and family violence.

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Dua Lipa‘s October pick for her Service95 book club is ‘Lincoln in the Bardo‘ by George Saunders. The historical fiction novel, which takes place in just over 24 hours, tells the story of President Abraham Lincoln who is grieving for his dead son, Willie, whose death foreshadows the hundreds of thousands of lives that are about to be lost in the American Civil War. What makes this novel even more unique is that it’s narrated by many bickering ghosts that reside in a graveyard.

Dua Lipa‘s September pick for her Service95 book club is ‘Bad Habit‘ by Alana S. Portero. Dua describes the book as a “vivid portrait of a young Trans girls growing up in 1980s Madrid,” and said she got “actual chills” reading the opening scenes.

Dua Lipa‘s July pick for her Service95 book club is ‘Noughts & Crosses‘ by Malorie Blackman. The Young Adult book explores racism and classism during its alternative version of Britain, in which black people (crosses) rule over white people (noughts).

Dua Lipa‘s June pick for her Service95 book club is ‘Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland‘ by journalist Patrick Radden Keefe. The non-fiction book explores The Troubles in Northern Ireland with the 1972 abduction and murder of Jean Conville as its central focus.