• Jenna Bush Hager

  • Jul 18 2023
  • Length: 44 mins
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • Episode 3 brings us the incredible reading icon and passionate bookworm that is Jenna Bush Hager, author and the face of The Today Show’s Read with Jenna. The conversation is ripe with reading recommendations, and Elin and Tim ask all the insider questions of how Read with Jenna came about, how she chooses the titles each month, and some of her favorites over the last 4.5 years. They dive into raising children to be readers, Jenna’s writing life, and what she hopes people 200 years in the future will take away from the Read with Jenna selections. This episode is truly one for the books!

    A special thank you to our Episode Sponsors:
    Cartolina
    Lauren Marttila Photography

    Jenna Bush Hager Reading List:
    Sisters First by Jenna Bush Hager & Barbara Pierce Bush
    Love Comes First by Jenna Bush Hager & Barbara Pierce Bush

    What else are we reading in this episode:
    There, There by Tommy Orange
    Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
    Night Bitch by Rachel Yoder
    Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
    The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
    The Secret History by Donna Tartt
    The Cloisters by Katy Hays
    Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos by Nash Jenkins
    My Last Innocent Year by Daisy Florin
    The Half Moon by Mary Beth Keane
    Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
    Solito by Javier Zamora
    The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
    I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai
    Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
    Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
    Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
    Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour

    Other authors mentioned:
    Emma Straub, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Kristin Hannah, Gillian Flynn, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Megan Abbott, Agatha Christie, Britney Spears, Laura Bush, Barbara Bush, Diane Sawyer, Cormac McCarthy, and Ann M Martin.

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    Happy Reading!

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