How Reese Witherspoon built a multimillion-dollar empire on books
The businesswoman’s book club may not make money from sales, but it does provide an opportunity to option stories that can be turned into TV shows by her production company.
You’d be shocked by how many books have women chained in basements,” Reese Witherspoon says. “I know it happens in the world. I don’t want to read a book about it.” Nor does she want to read an academic treatise or a 700-page novel about a tree.
Sitting in her office in Nashville, occasionally dipping into a box of takeout nachos, Witherspoon talks about what she does like to read – and what she looks for in a selection for Reese’s Book Club, which she refers to in a crisp third person.
