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Description: Read with Jenna began on The Today Show in 2019. Updated through May 2026

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1

The Dutch House

by Ann Patchett

6,296 members

325 reviews

4.1

2 Members: melissarochelle, gypsysmom

2

by Megha Majumdar

1,507 members

81 reviews

3.9

2 Members: melissarochelle, gypsysmom

3

Transcendent Kingdom

2,982 members

135 reviews

4

2 Members: melissarochelle, gypsysmom

4

Leave the World Behind

3,254 members

161 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: melissarochelle, gypsysmom

5

by Toni Morrison

15,850 members

270 reviews

3.9

2 Members: melissarochelle, gypsysmom

6

by Kristin Hannah

6,652 members

239 reviews

4.1

2 Members: melissarochelle, gypsysmom

7

The Lincoln Highway

4,407 members

204 reviews

4.1

2 Members: melissarochelle, gypsysmom

8

The Last Romantics

by Tara Conklin

1,145 members

83 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: melissarochelle

9

by Charmaine Wilkerson

2,280 members

95 reviews

3.9

2 Members: melissarochelle, gypsysmom

10

Remarkably Bright Creatures

by Shelby Van Pelt

6,831 members

321 reviews

4.2

2 Members: melissarochelle, gypsysmom

11

The Secret History

25,095 members

643 reviews

4.1

2 Members: melissarochelle, gypsysmom

12

by Maggie Shipstead

2,038 members

84 reviews

4

2 Members: melissarochelle, gypsysmom

13

557 members

9 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: melissarochelle, gypsysmom

14

by Louise Erdrich

841 members

38 reviews

4

2 Members: melissarochelle, gypsysmom

15

The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus

326 members

13 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: melissarochelle, gypsysmom

16

Pride and Prejudice

93,648 members

1,508 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: melissarochelle, gypsysmom

17

The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After

by Julie Yip-Williams

314 members

14 reviews

3.8

Member: melissarochelle

18

by Patrick Ryan

1,025 members

44 reviews

4.2

2 Members: melissarochelle, gypsysmom

19

A Woman Is No Man

2,013 members

73 reviews

4

Member: melissarochelle

20

Searching for Sylvie Lee

872 members

58 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: melissarochelle

21

Evvie Drake Starts Over

by Linda Holmes

1,789 members

116 reviews

3.8

Member: melissarochelle

22

by Nicole Dennis-Benn

479 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: melissarochelle

23

The Dearly Beloved

626 members

34 reviews

3.9

Member: melissarochelle

24

Nothing to See Here

by Kevin Wilson

2,894 members

164 reviews

4

Member: melissarochelle

25

Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

by Margaret Renkl

507 members

20 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: melissarochelle

26

by Ann Napolitano

2,339 members

111 reviews

4

Member: melissarochelle

27

The Girl with the Louding Voice

2,157 members

71 reviews

4.2

Member: melissarochelle

28

Writers and Lovers

2,299 members

117 reviews

4

Member: melissarochelle

29

Valentine: A Novel

by Elizabeth Wetmore

1,107 members

62 reviews

3.9

Member: melissarochelle

30

All Adults Here

1,364 members

49 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: melissarochelle

31

Friends and Strangers

by J. Courtney Sullivan

545 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: melissarochelle

32

Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America; Essays

by R. Eric Thomas

406 members

18 reviews

4.2

Member: melissarochelle

33

358 members

14 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: melissarochelle

34

752 members

37 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: melissarochelle

35

by Mateo Askaripour

662 members

43 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: melissarochelle

36

444 members

19 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: melissarochelle

37

What's Mine and Yours

by Naima Coster

623 members

12 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: melissarochelle

38

by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

739 members

22 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: melissarochelle

39

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

5,677 members

145 reviews

3.9

Member: melissarochelle

40

887 members

51 reviews

4.1

Member: melissarochelle

41

by Megan Abbott

577 members

28 reviews

3.2

Member: melissarochelle

42

Beautiful Country: A Memoir

by Qian Julie Wang

826 members

41 reviews

4.1

Member: melissarochelle

43

by Naomi Krupitsky

607 members

16 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: melissarochelle

44

Bright Burning Things

by Lisa Harding

263 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: melissarochelle

45

The School for Good Mothers

by Jessamine Chan

1,569 members

70 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: melissarochelle

46

244 members

13 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: melissarochelle

47

by Tara M. Stringfellow

683 members

25 reviews

3.9

Member: melissarochelle

48

These Impossible Things

by Salma El-Wardany

214 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: melissarochelle

49

by Nikki Erlick

2,523 members

87 reviews

3.8

Member: melissarochelle

50

The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

741 members

32 reviews

3.9

Member: melissarochelle

51

Solito: A Memoir

by Javier Zamora

1,132 members

38 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: melissarochelle

52

The Whalebone Theatre

by Joanna Quinn

855 members

24 reviews

4

Member: melissarochelle

53

1,755 members

55 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: melissarochelle

54

by Allegra Goodman

239 members

13 reviews

3.8

Member: melissarochelle

55

by Jessica George

1,134 members

48 reviews

3.8

Member: melissarochelle

56

Black Candle Women

by Diane Marie Brown

234 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: melissarochelle

57

by Michelle Min Sterling

653 members

22 reviews

3.2

Member: melissarochelle

58

Chain-Gang All-Stars

by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

1,746 members

61 reviews

4

Member: melissarochelle

59

by Steven Rowley

467 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: melissarochelle

60

4,701 members

90 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: melissarochelle

61

Amazing Grace Adams

by Fran Littlewood

439 members

19 reviews

3.2

Member: melissarochelle

62

How to Say Babylon: A Memoir

by Safiya Sinclair

544 members

34 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: melissarochelle

63

The Sun Sets in Singapore

by Kehinde Fadipe

120 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: melissarochelle

64

We Must Not Think of Ourselves

by Lauren Grodstein

206 members

12 reviews

4.2

Member: melissarochelle

65

The Waters: A Novel

by Bonnie Jo Campbell

226 members

11 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: melissarochelle

66

by Dolly Alderton

1,103 members

33 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: melissarochelle

67

The House on Mango Street

by Sandra Cisneros

12,858 members

255 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: melissarochelle

68

The Great Divide

by Cristina Henríquez

544 members

15 reviews

3.8

Member: melissarochelle

69

by Holly Gramazio

1,288 members

48 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: melissarochelle

70

by Rachel Khong

999 members

36 reviews

3.8

Member: melissarochelle

71

by Essie Chambers

244 members

9 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: melissarochelle

72

All the Colors of the Dark

by Chris Whitaker

2,514 members

95 reviews

4.1

Member: melissarochelle

73

The Wedding People

by Alison Espach

2,874 members

118 reviews

4

Member: melissarochelle

74

by Coco Mellors

1,208 members

35 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: melissarochelle

75

This Motherless Land

155 members

11 reviews

4.2

Member: melissarochelle

76

Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

1,997 members

30 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: melissarochelle

77

This Is a Love Story

by Jessica Soffer

164 members

7 reviews

3

Member: melissarochelle

78

The Dream Hotel

by Laila Lalami

614 members

31 reviews

3.8

Member: melissarochelle

79

942 members

60 reviews

3.9

Member: melissarochelle

80

by Florence Knapp

1,365 members

63 reviews

4

Member: melissarochelle

81

A Family Matter

by Claire Lynch

281 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: melissarochelle

82

Happy Wife: A Novel

by Meredith Lavender

152 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: melissarochelle

83

My Other Heart: A Novel

by Emma Nanami Strenner

72 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: melissarochelle

84

The Irish Goodbye

by Heather Aimee O'Neill

269 members

32 reviews

4

Member: melissarochelle

85

Cursed Daughters

by Oyinkan Braithwaite

346 members

15 reviews

4

Member: melissarochelle

86

Homeschooled: A Memoir

by Stefan Merrill Block

108 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: melissarochelle

87

One & Only: A Novel

196 members

9 reviews

3.9

Member: melissarochelle

88

Wait for Me: A Novel

by Amy Jo Burns

66 members

6 reviews

4

Member: melissarochelle

89

Upward Bound: A Novel

109 members

9 reviews

4.2

Member: melissarochelle

90

by Gillian McAllister

100 members

9 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: melissarochelle

91

The Children: A Novel

by Melissa Albert

175 members

7 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: melissarochelle

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November 2025
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