All 66 Books in Jenna Bush Hager’s Book Club, Read With Jenna
Time to get reading with the TODAY co-anchor.
If you're always in search of for your next great read, you've likely heard of Read With Jenna book club, a monthly book selection from TODAY's own Jenna Bush Hager.
“I love reading for so many reasons. It really is my escape from everyday life. It’s how I calm down. It’s how I detach. It’s how I fall in love with other places that I will never go to. It’s how I empathize with characters who are nothing like me. There’s nothing like falling in love with a book,” Hager (the daughter of a former librarian and FLOTUS, Laura Bush) reflected at the start of 2023.
Having a book club is her way of involving others in this passion.
“When we started Read With Jenna, we hoped to build a community of people who wanted to read here and there. I don’t think we ever could have imagined that we’d have...a community that’s so engaged and compassionate," Hager told TODAY.com as the project celebrated its fourth anniversary.
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From classics to hot new titles, mind-blowing nonfiction to heart-stopping thrillers, Hager's selection span every genre. Her latest for May 2024? Real Americans by Rachel Khong.
Jenna Bush Hager's 2024 book club picks
- The Waters by Bonnie Jo Campbell
- Good Material by Dolly Alderton
- The Great Divide by Cristina Henriquez
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
- Real American's by Rachel Khong
Read With Jenna's 2023 book club picks
- Sam by Allegra Goodman
- Maame by Jessica George
- Black Candle Women by Diane Marie Brown
- Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling
- Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- The Celebrants by Steven Rowley
- Banyan Moon by Thao Thai
- Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
- Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood
- How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
- The Sun Sets in Singapore by Kehinde Fadipe
- We Must Not Think of Ourselves by Lauren Grodstein
Read With Jenna's 2022 book club picks
- The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
- Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
- Groundskeeping by Lee Cole
- Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
- Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
- These Impossible Things by Salma El-Wardany
- The Measure by Nikki Erlick
- The Many Daughters of Afong Boy by Jamie Ford
- Solito by Jamvier Zamora
- The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
- The Cloisters by Katy Hays
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Read With Jenna's 2021 book club picks
- Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
- The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
- Send for Me by Lauren Fox
- What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster
- Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
- Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
- Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
- The Turnout by Megan Abbott
- Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
- The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
- The Family by Naomi Krupitsky
- Bright Burning Things by Lisa Harding
Read With Jenna's 2020 book club picks
- Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
- The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
- Writers & Lovers by Lily King
- Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
- All Adults Here by Emma Straub
- A Burning by Megha Majumdar
- Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
- Here for It by R. Eric Thomas
- The Comeback by Ella German
- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
- Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
- White Ivy by Susie Yang
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Read With Jenna's 2019 book club picks
- The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin
- The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams
- A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum
- Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok
- Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
- Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
- The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall
- The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
- Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
- Late Migrations by Margaret Renal