Emma Roberts Picks Didion and Babitz as Belletrists Latest Selection (Exclusive) [Video]

Emma Roberts is sharing the latest selection for her book club and online reading community, Belletrist.

The actress, who launched Belletrist with Karah Preiss in 2017, revealed that the club’s newest selection is Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik, out Nov. 12 from Scribner. The nonfiction book details the complicated friendship between writers Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, who both chronicled 1960s California in their work and died days apart in December 2021.

“Joan Didion was the first writer I truly loved as an adult person,” Roberts tells PEOPLE in an exclusive email interview. “She was the first writer I read who I felt was mine … of course, I quickly learned that so many people feel this way about Joan Didion, but when I first read her — and I still feel this way — I felt like she was writing to me.”