Entertainment Books Book Recommendations See All of Jenna Bush Hager’s 2025 Read With Jenna Book Club Picks “Our mission is to highlight debut and diverse writers,” Bush Hager tells PEOPLE of her book club’s selection process By Carly Tagen-Dye Carly Tagen-Dye Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms. People Editorial Guidelines Published on January 9, 2025 03:00PM EST Comments Jenna Bush Hager in Nov. 2024. Photo: Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Jenna Bush Hager has some great book recommendations for 2025.The Today Show co-host, 43, founded her Read with Jenna book club in 2019. As a passionate bookworm, Bush Hager chooses a new title to read every month, with her list of selected authors ranging from Toni Morrison to Dolly Alderton to 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.” Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Already, 2025 has seen the launch of Hager’s new book imprint Thousand Voices Books, and there’s more in store for her book club too. See below for all of Read with Jenna’s 2025 selections. 01 of 01 January 2025: ‘The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus’ by Emma Knight 'The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus' by Emma Knight. 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. Buy Now Jenna Bush Hager's Book Club: See All of the Today Show Host's 2024 Read with Jenna Picks Close