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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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  1. July 2026
    The Shampoo Effect

    by Jenny Jackson

  2. June 2026
    The Children

    by Melissa Albert

  3. May 2026
    Caller Unknown

    by Gillian McAllister

  4. April 2026
    Upward Bound

    by Woody Brown

  5. March 2026
    Wait for Me

    by Amy Jo Burns

  6. February 2026
    One & Only

    by Maurene Goo

  7. January 2026
    Homeschooled

    by Stefan Merrill Block

  8. Pride and Prejudice cover
  9. November 2025
    Cursed Daughters

    by Oyinkan Braithwaite

  10. October 2025
    The Irish Goodbye

    by Heather Aimee O'Neill

  11. September 2025
    Buckeye

    by Patrick Ryan

  12. August 2025
    My Other Heart

    by Emma Nanami Strenner

  13. July 2025
    Happy Wife

    by Meredith Lavender & Kendall Shores

  14. June 2025
    A Family Matter

    by Claire Lynch

  15. May 2025
    The Names

    by Florence Knapp

  16. April 2025
    Heartwood

    by Amity Gaige

  17. March 2025
    The Dream Hotel

    by Leila Lalami

  18. February 2025
    This is a Love Story

    by Jessica Soffer

  19. January 2025
    The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus

    by Emma Knight

  20. December 2024
    Devotions

    by Mary Oliver

  21. November 2024
    This Motherless Land

    by Nikki May

  22. October 2024
    The Mighty Red

    by Louise Erdrich

  23. September 2024
    Blue Sisters

    by Coco Mellors

  24. August 2024
    The Wedding People

    by Alison Espach

  25. July 2024
    All the Colors of the Dark

    by Chris Whitaker

  26. June 2024
    Swift River

    by Essie Chambers

  27. May 2024
    Real Americans

    by Rachel Khong

  28. April 2024
    The Husbands

    by Holly Gramazio

  29. The House on Mango Street cover
  30. March 2024
    The Great Divide

    by Cristina Henríquez

  31. February 2024
    Good Material

    by Dolly Alderton

  32. January 2024
    The Waters

    by Bonnie Jo Campbell

  33. December 2023
    We Must Not Think of Ourselves

    by Lauren Grodstein

  34. November 2023
    The Sun Sets in Singapore

    by Kehinde Fadipe

  35. October 2023
    How to Say Babylon

    by Safiya Sinclair

  36. September 2023
    Amazing Grace Adams

    by Fran Littlewood

  37. August 2023
    Summer Sisters

    by Judy Blume

  38. July 2023
    Banyan Moon

    by Thao Thai

  39. June 2023
    The Celebrants

    by Steven Rowley

  40. May 2023
    Chain-Gang All-Stars

    by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

  41. April 2023
    Camp Zero

    by Michelle Min Sterling

  42. March 2023
    Black Candle Women

    by Diane Marie Brown

  43. February 2023
    Maame

    by Jessica George

  44. January 2023
    Sam

    by Allegra Goodman

  45. December 2022
    The Secret History

    by Donna Tartt

  46. November 2022
    The Cloisters

    by Katy Hays

  47. October 2022
    The Whalebone Theatre

    by Joanna Quinn

  48. September 2022
    Solito: A Memoir

    by Javier Zamora

  49. August 2022
    The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

    by Jamie Ford

  50. July 2022
    The Measure

    by Nikki Erlick

  51. June 2022
    These Impossible Things

    by Salma El-Wardany

  52. May 2022
    Remarkably Bright Creatures

    by Shelby Van Pelt

  53. April 2022
    Memphis

    by Tara M. Stringfellow

  54. March 2022
    Groundskeeping

    by Lee Cole

  55. February 2022
    Black Cake

    by Charmaine Wilkerson

  56. January 2022
    The School for Good Mothers

    by Jessamine Chan

  57. December 2021
    Bright Burning Things

    by Lisa Harding

  58. November 2021
    The Family

    by Naomi Krupitsky

  59. October 2021
    The Lincoln Highway

    by Amor Towles

  60. September 2021
    Beautiful Country

    by Qian Julie Wang

  61. August 2021
    The Turnout

    by Megan Abbott

  62. July 2021
    Hell of a Book

    by Jason Mott

  63. June 2021
    Malibu Rising

    by Taylor Jenkins Reid

  64. May 2021
    Great Circle

    by Maggie Shipstead

  65. April 2021
    Good Company

    by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

  66. March 2021
    What's Mine and Yours

    by Naima Coster

  67. February 2021
    Send for Me

    by Lauren Fox

  68. February 2021
    The Four Winds

    by Kristin Hannah

  69. January 2021
    Black Buck

    by Mateo Askaripour

  70. The Bluest Eye cover
  71. November 2020
    White Ivy

    by Susie Yang

  72. October 2020
    Leave the World Behind

    by Rumaan Alam

  73. September 2020
    Transcendent Kingdom

    by Yaa Gyasi

  74. August 2020
    Here For It

    by R. Eric Thomas

  75. August 2020
    The Comeback

    by Ella Berman

  76. July 2020
    Friends and Strangers

    by J. Courtney Sullivan

  77. June 2020
    A Burning

    by Megha Majumdar

  78. May 2020
    All Adults Here

    by Emma Straub

  79. April 2020
    Valentine

    by Elizabeth Wetmore

  80. March 2020
    Writers & Lovers

    by Lily King

  81. February 2020
    The Girl with the Louding Voice

    by Abi Daré

  82. January 2020
    Dear Edward

    by Ann Napolitano

  83. December 2019
    Late Migrations

    by Margaret Renkl

  84. November 2019
    Nothing to See Here

    by Kevin Wilson

  85. October 2019
    The Dutch House

    by Ann Patchett

  86. September 2019
    The Dearly Beloved

    by Cara Wall

  87. August 2019
    Patsy

    by Nicole Dennis-Benn

  88. July 2019
    Evvie Drake Starts Over

    by Linda Holmes

  89. June 2019
    Searching for Sylvie Lee

    by Jean Kwok

  90. May 2019
    A Woman Is No Man

    by Etaf Rum

  91. April 2019
    The Unwinding of the Miracle

    by Julie Yip-Williams

  92. March 2019
    The Last Romantics

    by Tara Conklin

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