Full Read with Jenna Book Club List

2026 Selections

1. Homeschooled by Stefan Merrill Block
2. One & Only by Maurene Goo
3. Wait for Me by Amy Jo Burns
4. Upward Bound by Woody Brown

2025 Selections

1. The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus by Emma Knight
2. This Is a Love Story by Jessica Soffer
3. The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
4. Heartwood by Amity Gaige
5. The Names by Florence Knapp
6. A Family Matter by Claire Lynch
7. Happy Wife by Meredith Lavender and Kendall Shores
8. My Other Heart by Emma Nanami Strenner
9. Buckeye by Patrick Ryan
10. The Irish Goodbye by Heather Aimee O’Neill
11. Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite
12. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

2024 Selections

1. The Waters by Bonnie Jo Campbell
2. Good Material by Dolly Alderton
3. The Great Divide by Cristina Henriquez
4. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
5. The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
6. Real Americans by Rachel Khong
7. Swift River by Essie Chambers
8. All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
9. The Wedding People by Alison Espach
10. Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
11. The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich
12. This Motherless Land by Nikki May
13. Devotions by Mary Oliver

2023 Selections

1. Sam by Allegra Goodman
2. Maame by Jessica George 
3. Black Candle Women by Diane Marie Brown
4. Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling
5. Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
6. The Celebrants by Steven Rowley 
7. Banyan Moon by Thao Thai
8. Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
9. Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood
10. How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
11. The Sun Sets in Singapore by Kehinde Fadipe
12. We Must Not Think of Ourselves by Lauren Grodstein

2022 Selections

1. The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
2. Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson 
3. Groundskeeping by Lee Cole
4. Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow 
5. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 
6. These Impossible Things Salma El-Wardany
7. The Measure by Nikki Erlick
8. The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford
9. Solito by Javier Zamora
10. The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
11. The Cloisters by Katy Hays
12. The Secret History by Donna Tartt 

2021 Selections

1. Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour 
2. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah 
3. Send for Me by Lauren Fox 
4. What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster
5. Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
6. Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
7. Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid 
8. Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
9. The Turnout by Megan Abbott
10. Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang 
11. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles 
12. The Family by Naomi Krupitsky 
13. Bright Burning Things by Lisa Harding

2020 Selections

1. Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano 
2. The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare 
3. Writers & Lovers by Lily King 
4. Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore 
5. All Adults Here by Emma Straub 
6. A Burning by Megha Majumdar 
7. Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan 
8. Here for It by R. Eric Thomas 
9. The Comeback by Ella Berman 
10. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi 
11. Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam 
12. White Ivy by Susie Yang 
13. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 

2019 Selections

1. The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin 
2. The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams 
3. A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum 
4. Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok 
5. Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes 
6. Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn 
7. The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall 
8. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett 
9. Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson 
10. Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl 

My Favorites from The Jenna Bush Hager Book Club

Selecting my favorites from the Jenna Bush Hager book club is super hard because of all the celebrity and high-profile book clubs out there; I’ve read and loved the most books from the Read With Jenna book club list.

• 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 Dutch House by Ann Patchett
• Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
• Writers & Lovers by Lily King
• All Adults Here by Emma Straub
• Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
• Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
• Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
• The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
• The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
• Groundskeeping by Lee Cole
• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
• Solito by Javier Zamora
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• Maame by Jessica George
• Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling
• Banyan Moon by Thao Thai
• How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
• The Great Divide by Cristina Henriquez
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
• Real Americans by Rachel Khong
• Swift River by Essie Chambers
• The Wedding People by Alison Espach
• Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
• The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich
• The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
• Heartwood by Amity Gaige
• The Names by Florence Knapp
• Happy Wife by Meredith Lavender and Kendall Shores
• The Irish Goodbye by Heather Aimee O’Neill
• Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Homeschooled by Stefan Merrill Block
• One & Only by Maurene Goo
• Wait for Me by Amy Jo Burns
• Upward Bound by Woody Brown