Read With Jenna Book Club Picks

Read with Jenna is the book club started by Jenna Bush Hager.

Jenna is known primarily as the television host of Today, also known as The Today Show, which she started working with in 2009.

On March 2019 on the Today Show, Jenna announced that she was starting her own book club, titled Read With Jenna.

Jenna also expanded this in 2022 with a Book Club focused towards children, with the title Read With Jenna Jr.. She also started Open Book with Jenna in 2023, a podcast consisting primarily of interviews with authors.

The first book picked as part of Read with Jenna was The Last Romantics, the second novel written by Tara Conklin.

Read With Jenna Book Club Picks:

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Category	Author	Title	Avg.
April 2019 Pick	Julie Yip-Williams	The Unwinding of the Miracle	10
April 2020 Pick	Elizabeth Wetmore	Valentine	7.8
April 2021 Pick	Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney	Good Company	6.1
April 2022 Pick	Tara M. Stringfellow	Memphis	7.2
April 2023 Pick	Michelle Min Sterling	Camp Zero	7
April 2024 Pick	Holly Gramazio	The Husbands	6.7
April 2025 Pick	Amity Gaige	Heartwood	8.2
April 2026 Pick	Woody Brown	Upward Bound	10
August 2019 Pick	Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn	Patsy	9
August 2020 Pick	Ella Berman	The Comeback	6
August 2020 Pick	R. Eric Thomas	Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America	7.7
August 2021 Pick	Megan Abbott	The Turnout	6
August 2022 Pick	Jamie Ford	The Many Daughters of Afong Moy	7.3
August 2023 Pick	Judy Blume	Summer Sisters	6.9
August 2024 Pick	Alison Espach	The Wedding People	8.1
August 2025 Pick	Emma Nanami Strenner	My Other Heart	4
August 2026 Pick	Laura Moriarty	Sunlight Finds You	9
December 2019 Pick	Margaret Renkl	Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss	8
December 2020 Pick	Toni Morrison	The Bluest Eye	7.8
December 2021 Pick	Lisa Harding	Bright Burning Things	7
December 2022 Pick	Donna Tartt	The Secret History	7.4
December 2023 Pick	Lauren Grodstein	We Must Not Think of Ourselves	7.7
December 2024 Pick	Mary Oliver	Devotions	8.7
December 2025 Pick	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	8.6
February 2020 Pick	Abi Daré	The Girl with the Louding Voice	8.1
February 2021 Pick	Lauren Fox	Send for Me	6
February 2021 Pick	Kristin Hannah	The Four Winds	8.4
February 2022 Pick	Charmaine Wilkerson	Black Cake	8.2
February 2023 Pick	Jessica George	Maame	7.8
February 2024 Pick	Dolly Alderton	Good Material	7.7
February 2025 Pick	Jessica Soffer	This Is a Love Story	6.5
February 2026 Pick	Maurene Goo	One & Only	8.8
January 2020 Pick	Ann Napolitano	Dear Edward	8.1
January 2021 Pick	Mateo Askaripour	Black Buck	8
January 2022 Pick	Jessamine Chan	The School for Good Mothers	7.1
January 2023 Pick	Allegra Goodman	Sam	7
January 2024 Pick	Bonnie Jo Campbell	The Waters	4
January 2025 Pick	Emma Knight	The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus	6.3
January 2026 Pick	Stefan Merrill Block	Homeschooled	8
July 2019 Pick	Linda Holmes	Evvie Drake Starts Over	7.7
July 2020 Pick	J. Courtney Sullivan	Friends and Strangers	7.5
July 2021 Pick	Jason Mott	Hell of a Book	8.7
July 2022 Pick	Nikki Erlick	The Measure	7.6
July 2023 Pick	Thao Thai	Banyan Moon	8.7
July 2024 Pick	Chris Whitaker	All the Colors of the Dark	8.6
July 2025 Pick	Meredith Lavender Kendall Shores	Happy Wife	10
July 2026 Pick	Jenny Jackson	The Shampoo Effect
June 2019 Pick	Jean Kwok	Searching for Sylvie Lee	6.4
June 2020 Pick	Megha Majumdar	A Burning	8.5
June 2021 Pick	Taylor Jenkins Reid	Malibu Rising	8
June 2022 Pick	Salma El-Wardany	These Impossible Things	9
June 2023 Pick	Steven Rowley	The Celebrants	6.9
June 2024 Pick	Essie Chambers	Swift River	5
June 2025 Pick	Claire Lynch	A Family Matter	8.3
June 2026 Pick	Melissa Albert	The Children	5.5
March 2019 Pick	Tara Conklin	The Last Romantics	6.9
March 2020 Pick	Lily King	Writers and Lovers	8.8
March 2021 Pick	Naima Coster	What's Mine and Yours	7.7
March 2022 Pick	Lee Cole	Groundskeeping	7.3
March 2023 Pick	Diane Marie Brown	Black Candle Women	5.5
March 2024 Pick	Cristina Henriquez	The Great Divide	7.7
March 2024 Pick	Sandra Cisneros	The House on Mango Street	7.5
March 2025 Pick	Laila Lalami	The Dream Hotel	7
March 2026 Pick	Amy Jo Burns	Wait for Me	7.3
May 2019 Pick	Etaf Rum	A Woman Is No Man	8
May 2020 Pick	Emma Straub	All Adults Here	7.6
May 2021 Pick	Maggie Shipstead	Great Circle	7.7
May 2022 Pick	Shelby Van Pelt	Remarkably Bright Creatures	8.9
May 2023 Pick	Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah	Chain-Gang All-Stars	7.8
May 2024 Pick	Rachel Khong	The Real Americans	8.7
May 2025 Pick	Florence Knapp	The Names	8.6
May 2026 Pick	Gillian McAllister	Caller Unknown	6.9
November 2019 Pick	Kevin Wilson	Nothing to See Here	7.9
November 2020 Pick	Susie Yang	White Ivy	7.4
November 2021 Pick	Naomi Krupitsky	The Family	8.7
November 2022 Pick	Katy Hays	The Cloisters	6.3
November 2023 Pick	Kehinde Fadipe	The Sun Sets in Singapore / In Such Tremendous Heat	7
November 2024 Pick	Nikki May	This Motherless Land	9.3
November 2025 Pick	Oyinkan Braithwaite	Cursed Daughters	5
October 2019 Pick	Ann Patchett	The Dutch House	8.3
October 2020 Pick	Rumaan Alam	Leave the World Behind	6.1
October 2021 Pick	Amor Towles	The Lincoln Highway	8.2
October 2022 Pick	Joanna Quinn	The Whalebone Theatre	6.5
October 2023 Pick	Safiya Sinclair	How to Say Babylon	6.5
October 2024 Pick	Louise Erdrich	The Mighty Red	7.3
October 2025 Pick	Heather Aimee O'Neill	The Irish Goodbye	7.5
September 2019 Pick	Cara Wall	The Dearly Beloved	7.3
September 2020 Pick	Yaa Gyasi	Transcendent Kingdom	8
September 2021 Pick	Qian Julie Wang	Beautiful Country	7.7
September 2022 Pick	Javier Zamora	Solito: A Memoir	7.6
September 2023 Pick	Fran Littlewood	Amazing Grace Adams	4
September 2024 Pick	Coco Mellors	Blue Sisters	8.6
September 2025 Pick	Patrick Ryan	Buckeye	7.7

Read with Jenna Book Club F.A.Q.

When are new picks made by the Read with Jenna Book Club?

Books are usually picked on the first week of each month by the Read with Jenna Book Club, for that month, and promptly listed above.

What is Read with Jenna Jr.?

Read with Jenna Jr. is a “book club” focused towards children, and hosted by Jenna. Instead of monthly picks, a list of seasonal picks is provided broken down into categories. For example, the 2025 Summer Reading List, which had the categories Young Adult, Middle Grade and Picture Books.

When did Read with Jenna start?

March 2019.

How many Read with Jenna Books are there?

The table above lists all of the books included so far in the Read with Jenna Book Club, and it is updated monthly with each new announcement. The total is displayed at the bottom left of the table above.