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Read with Jenna: Every Book Pick Read with Jenna is the monthly book club hosted by Jenna Bush Hager on NBC's TODAY Show. Launched in March 2019, it spotlights one fiction or memoir title each month, frequently championing debut and emerging authors. Picks regularly become bestsellers and several have been optioned for screen adaptation.
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Start free trial → The Shampoo Effect July 2026
The Shampoo Effect by Jenny Jackson
The Children June 2026
The Children by Melissa Albert
Caller Unknown May 2026
Caller Unknown by Gillian McAllister
Upward Bound April 2026
Upward Bound by Woody Brown
Wait for Me March 2026
Wait for Me by Amy Jo Burns
One & Only February 2026
One & Only by Maurene Goo
Homeschooled January 2026
Homeschooled by Stefan Merrill Block
Cursed Daughters November 2025
Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Irish Goodbye October 2025
The Irish Goodbye by Heather Aimee O'Neill
Buckeye September 2025
Buckeye by Patrick Ryan
My Other Heart August 2025
My Other Heart by Emma Nanami Strenner
Happy Wife July 2025
Happy Wife by Meredith Lavender & Kendall Shores
A Family Matter June 2025
A Family Matter by Claire Lynch
The Names May 2025
The Names by Florence Knapp
Heartwood April 2025
Heartwood by Amity Gaige
The Dream Hotel March 2025
The Dream Hotel by Leila Lalami
This is a Love Story February 2025
This is a Love Story by Jessica Soffer
The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus January 2025
The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus by Emma Knight
Devotions December 2024
Devotions by Mary Oliver
This Motherless Land November 2024
This Motherless Land by Nikki May
The Mighty Red October 2024
The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich
Blue Sisters September 2024
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
The Wedding People August 2024
The Wedding People by Alison Espach
All the Colors of the Dark July 2024
All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
Swift River June 2024
Swift River by Essie Chambers
Real Americans May 2024
Real Americans by Rachel Khong
The Husbands April 2024
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
The Great Divide March 2024
The Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez
Good Material February 2024
Good Material by Dolly Alderton
The Waters January 2024
The Waters by Bonnie Jo Campbell
We Must Not Think of Ourselves December 2023
We Must Not Think of Ourselves by Lauren Grodstein
The Sun Sets in Singapore November 2023
The Sun Sets in Singapore by Kehinde Fadipe
How to Say Babylon October 2023
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
Amazing Grace Adams September 2023
Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood
Summer Sisters August 2023
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
Banyan Moon July 2023
Banyan Moon by Thao Thai
The Celebrants June 2023
The Celebrants by Steven Rowley
Chain-Gang All-Stars May 2023
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Camp Zero April 2023
Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling
Black Candle Women March 2023
Black Candle Women by Diane Marie Brown
Maame February 2023
Maame by Jessica George
Sam January 2023
Sam by Allegra Goodman
The Secret History December 2022
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Cloisters November 2022
The Cloisters by Katy Hays
The Whalebone Theatre October 2022
The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
Solito: A Memoir September 2022
Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy August 2022
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford
The Measure July 2022
The Measure by Nikki Erlick
These Impossible Things June 2022
These Impossible Things by Salma El-Wardany
Remarkably Bright Creatures May 2022
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Memphis April 2022
Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
Groundskeeping March 2022
Groundskeeping by Lee Cole
Black Cake February 2022
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
The School for Good Mothers January 2022
The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
Bright Burning Things December 2021
Bright Burning Things by Lisa Harding
The Family November 2021
The Family by Naomi Krupitsky
The Lincoln Highway October 2021
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Beautiful Country September 2021
Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
The Turnout August 2021
The Turnout by Megan Abbott
Hell of a Book July 2021
Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
Malibu Rising June 2021
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Great Circle May 2021
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Good Company April 2021
Good Company by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
What's Mine and Yours March 2021
What's Mine and Yours by Naima Coster
Send for Me February 2021
Send for Me by Lauren Fox
The Four Winds February 2021
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
Black Buck January 2021
Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
White Ivy November 2020
White Ivy by Susie Yang
Leave the World Behind October 2020
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
Transcendent Kingdom September 2020
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Here For It August 2020
Here For It by R. Eric Thomas
The Comeback August 2020
The Comeback by Ella Berman
Friends and Strangers July 2020
Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
A Burning June 2020
A Burning by Megha Majumdar
All Adults Here May 2020
All Adults Here by Emma Straub
Valentine April 2020
Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
Writers & Lovers March 2020
Writers & Lovers by Lily King
The Girl with the Louding Voice February 2020
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
Dear Edward January 2020
Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
Late Migrations December 2019
Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl
Nothing to See Here November 2019
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
The Dutch House October 2019
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
The Dearly Beloved September 2019
The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall
Patsy August 2019
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Evvie Drake Starts Over July 2019
Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
Searching for Sylvie Lee June 2019
Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok
A Woman Is No Man May 2019
A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum
The Unwinding of the Miracle April 2019
The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams
The Last Romantics March 2019
The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin
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