Jenna Bush Hager in Nov. 2024.Photo:Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty
Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty
Jenna Bush Hagerhas some great book recommendations for 2025.TheTodayShow co-host, 43, founded herRead with Jennabook club in 2019. As a passionate bookworm, Bush Hager chooses a new title to read every month, with her list of selected authors ranging fromToni MorrisontoDolly Aldertonto Sandra Cisneros.“I think about the year as a whole,” Bush Hager told PEOPLE of her book club selection process. “I want to make sure that our readers are getting a selection of different genres. They’re getting fresh, new voices.”
The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now!“Our mission is to highlight debut and diverse writers. So younger writers, meaning not younger in age, but younger in their career,” she added. “Diverse stories, stories that haven’t always historically been published or listened to, I think is really important … We want to make sure that all of America is really represented in the stories that we’re sharing.”
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Pantheon Books
Lalami’s dystopian novel questions the meaning of freedom when Sara, a digital archivist, is arrested for a crime she’s yet to commit. Deemed at risk of harming her husband due to data pulled from her dreams, Sara is sent to a facility alongside other women who are under surveillance.Bush Hager calls this novel “a meditation on free will, sisterhood and the power of love.”
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Jessica Soffer
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Pamela Dorman Books
Bush Hager’s first pick of the year follows Pen, a college freshman studying abroad in Scotland who befriends a writer and his intriguing family — and ends up learning more about her own parents in the process. It’s a story of female friendship, sexual awakening, family and new experiences.“This is a book about friendship, motherhood and finding ourselves with mystery and romance at its core,” Bush Hager said of the novel.
source: people.com
