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• #ReadWithJenna Book Club

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• Pride and Prejudice

  Austen, Jane, 1775-1817

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  December 2025. “‘Pride and Prejudice’ is one of my favorite books of all time,” Jenna told TODAY.com. “I love Jane Austen so much.”

• Cursed Daughters

  a Novel

  Braithwaite, Oyinkan

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  November 2025. "Cursed Daughters" follows "family of women in Lagos who believe they are not destined to love" due to a generational curse, Jenna says.

• The Irish Goodbye

  a Novel

  O'Neill, Heather Aimee

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  The October Read With Jenna book club pick is a perfect fall read "about a family filled with secrets," Jenna Bush Hager says.

• Buckeye

  a Novel

  Ryan, Patrick, 1965-

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  September 2025 pick. Jenna Bush Hager says “Buckeye” by Patrick Ryan, her September 2025 Read With Jenna pick, is a “once-in-a-decade novel.” “You read it once and then, even though it’s 500 pages, want to reread again,” she says.

• My Other Heart

  Strenner, Emma Nanami

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  August 2025 pick.

• Happy Wife

  a Novel

  Lavender, Meredith

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  "'Happy Wife’ is one of those delicious, fun summer books that you’ll open on the beach and never put down,” Jenna says.

• A Family Matter

  a Novel

  Lynch, Claire, 1981-

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  June 2025 pick. "In the '80s, we meet a young mother who falls in love and is punished for it. In the early aughts, we meet Heron who is an older man who has to reckon with the decision he made and tell the story of her life," Jenna tells TODAY.com.

• The Names

  Knapp, Florence

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  May 2025 pick. “We watch these three different realities take place over a lifetime,” Jenna says. “We watch a family who comes together, grows apart, and we meet this boy whose name, in three different ways, predicts who he will be. It’s a book…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Heartwood

  a Novel

  Gaige, Amity, 1972-

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  April 2025 pick. What would you do if you were lost on the Appalachian Trail? For most of us, the question is, thankfully, a hypothetical. For the main character in “Heartwood,” the question is urgent and very real.

• The Dream Hotel

  a Novel

  Lalami, Laila, 1968-

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  March 2025 pick. “The Dream Hotel” by Leila Lalami follows Sara, a young mother of twins who has been detained for having dreams that indicate she might be a danger to those around her.

• This Is a Love Story

  a Novel

  Soffer, Jessica

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  Jenna Bush Hager’s February 2025 Read With Jenna book is in synch with the month’s vibe. “It’s February, which means it’s the month of love, and I have the best, most epic love story for you to fall in love with this month,” Jenna says.

• The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus

  a Novel

  Knight, Emma (Emma L.)

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  Jenna Bush Hager's January 2025 pick for her Read With Jenna book club is a novel about a first-year college student in Scotland searching for the answers to her family secrets.

• Devotions

  the Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

  Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019

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  December 2024 pick. “I love her work. It’s about nature and love and what it means to be human,” Jenna says.

• This Motherless Land

  a Novel

  May, Nikki

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  Jenna Bush Hager’s November Read With Jenna pick is a retelling of a classic. “This Motherless Land” by Nikki May is a “beautiful” re-imagining of Jane Austen’s “Mansfield Park,” Jenna says.

• The Mighty Red

  a Novel

  Erdrich, Louise

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  Jenna Bush Hager says her October 2024 book club pick is by an author she's always loved: Louise Erdrich. "She's a master, a legend at building stories around community," Jenna tells TODAY.com.

• Blue Sisters

  a Novel

  Mellors, Coco

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  September 2024's pick. “I grew up with a mother and grandmother who read ‘Little Women’ to me, which is about a strong group of sisters. Not since then has a book about sisterhood stuck with me as much as Coco Mellors’ ‘Blue Sisters,’” Jenna says.

• The Wedding People

  a Novel

  Espach, Alison, 1984-

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  August 2024's pick. "It’s about where we are when we're in the mid of our life and the expectations versus reality. It’s about love and friendship and finding that love when you least expect it. I think you will love this book if you want to laugh,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Colors of the Dark

  a Novel

  Whitaker, Chris

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  TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager says she “may never have looked a book as much” as she loves her July 2024 selection, “All the Colors of the Dark” by Chris Whitaker.

• Swift River

  a Novel

  Chambers, Essie

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  Jenna Bush Hager says her June 2024 Read With Jenna pick stayed with her, and predicts it will stay with you, too.