Jenna Bush Hager, the NBC Today co-host of Hoda and Jenna and daughter of former President George Bush and Laura Bush, is an avid reader. Here is what she has been recommending this year.
Malibu Rising
by Taylor Jenkin Reid
Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of 24 hours, their lives will change forever. (Read BookTrib’s review here.)
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Hell of a Book
by Jason Mott
An astounding work of fiction from a New York Times bestselling author, both incredibly funny and honest, that goes to the heart of racism, police violence and the hidden costs exacted upon Black Americans, and America as a whole.
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The Turnout
by Megan Abbott
Bestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott’s revelatory, mesmerizing and game-changing new novel is set against the hothouse of a family-run ballet studio, and an interloper who arrives to bring down the carefully crafted Eden-like facade. (Read BookTrib’s review here.)
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Great Circle
by Maggie Shipstead
Spanning Prohibition-era Montana, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, New Zealand, wartime London, and modern-day Los Angeles, Great Circle tells the unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost.
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Good Company
by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
A warm, incisive new novel about the enduring bonds of marriage and friendship from Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, author of the instant New York Times bestseller The Nest.
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What’s Mine and Yours
by Naima Coster
From the author of Halsey Street, this is a sweeping novel of legacy, identity, the American family, and the ways that race affects even our most intimate relationships.
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Send For Me
by Lauren Fox
An achingly beautiful work of historical fiction that moves between Germany on the eve of World War II and present-day Wisconsin, unspooling a thread of love, longing, and the ceaseless push and pull of family.
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The Four Winds
by Kristin Hannah
From the number-one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes a powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression, a time when the country was in crisis and at war with itself and when millions were out of work, and even the land seemed to have turned against them. (Read BookTrib’s review here.)
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Black Buck
by Mateo Askaripour
For fans of Sorry to Bother You and The Wolf of Wall Street — a crackling, satirical debut novel about a young man given a shot at stardom as the lone Black salesman at a mysterious, cult-like and wildly successful startup where nothing is as it seems. (Read my review here.)
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Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkin Reid
Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of 24 hours, their lives will change forever.
Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
An astounding work of fiction from a New York Times bestselling author, both incredibly funny and honest, that goes to the heart of racism, police violence and the hidden costs exacted upon Black Americans, and America as a whole.
The Turnout by Megan Abbott
Bestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott’s revelatory, mesmerizing and game-changing new novel is set against the hothouse of a family-run ballet studio, and an interloper who arrives to bring down the carefully crafted Eden-like facade.
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Spanning Prohibition-era Montana, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, New Zealand, wartime London, and modern-day Los Angeles, Great Circle tells the unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost.
Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
A warm, incisive new novel about the enduring bonds of marriage and friendship from Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, author of the instant New York Times bestseller The Nest.
What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster
From the author of Halsey Street, this is a sweeping novel of legacy, identity, the American family, and the ways that race affects even our most intimate relationships.
Send For Me by Lauren Fox
An achingly beautiful work of historical fiction that moves between Germany on the eve of World War II and present-day Wisconsin, unspooling a thread of love, longing, and the ceaseless push and pull of family.
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
From the number-one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes a powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression, a time when the country was in crisis and at war with itself and when millions were out of work, and even the land seemed to have turned against them. (Read BookTrib’s review here.)
Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
For fans of Sorry to Bother You and The Wolf of Wall Street — a crackling, satirical debut novel about a young man given a shot at stardom as the lone Black salesman at a mysterious, cult-like and wildly successful startup where nothing is as it seems. (Read my review here.)
