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If you enjoyed the books that Jenna Bush Hager selected for this year's Today Show Book Club, then check out these suggested titles that have similar vibes, themes, or tones.
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- TRY THIS IF YOU ENJOYED "THE WITCHES OF CAMBRIDGE." Belles Never Tell... It's 1951 at the secluded Bellerton College, and Deena Williams is doing her best to blend in with her wealthy and perfectly groomed peers. Infamous for its strict rules and…
- TRY THIS IF YOU ENJOYED "THE WITCHES OF CAMBRIDGE." In post - World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets ... With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady…
- TRY THIS IF YOU ENJOYED "THE WITCHES OF CAMBRIDGE." For more than two hundred years, the Owens women had been blamed for everything that went wrong in their Massachusetts town. And Gillian and Sally endured that fate as well; as children, the…
- AUGUST 2026 PICK: It's 1949, early in the Cold War, but St. Petersburg, Florida is warm, lush, and booming with newcomers seeking sunshine and opportunity. For seventeen-year-old Nora, St. Pete feels like paradise, especially after she meets and…
- TRY THIS IF YOU ENJOYED "SUNLIGHT FINDS YOU." August 1983. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their baby…
- TRY THIS IF YOU ENJOYED "SUNLIGHT FINDS YOU." At seventeen, Ruth lost her mother to cancer, and her father, unable to handle his grieving daughter, shipped her off to Block Island with nothing but a name scribbled on the back of a receipt: Diana…
- JULY 2026 PICK: When Caroline Lash arrives in Greenhead, Massachusetts, she immediately falls in love with Van Whittaker, a local who runs with the same crowd he did as a kid: his ex-girlfriend Bailey; old-money Augusta; and Fran, who is so…
- TRY THIS IF YOU ENJOYED "THE SHAMPOO EFFECT." When the Pickford siblings arrive at The Grand Hotel--a nostalgic tourist paradise of horse-drawn carriages, muddled cocktails, and white sweaters on the tennis court--they have every intention of…
- TRY THIS IF YOU ENJOYED "THE SHAMPOO EFFECT." An irresistible comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the private jokes, ancient grudges, broken hearts, and deep, abiding love that feeds them all. Here are the…
- JUNE 2026 PICK: Guinevere Sharpe has two childhoods. In one, she lives in the wooded shadow of her family's isolated Vermont farmhouse; in the other, the pages of her mother's world-famous Ninth City books, where her magical adventures have made her…
- TRY THIS IF YOU ENJOYED "THE CHILDREN." The Yaga siblings--Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist--have been estranged since childhood, separated both by resentment and by wide miles of American…
- TRY THIS IF YOU ENJOYED "THE CHILDREN." Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a…
- MAY 2026 PICK: There is nothing that Simone won't do for her daughter, Lucy. The two have always been close, and with Lucy about to leave home for university, they depart the UK for a vacation to Texas to spend some quality time together. But when…
- TRY THIS IF YOU ENJOYED "CALLER UNKNOWN." Catherine Sterling thinks she knows her mother. Ruth Sterling is quiet, hardworking, and lives for her daughter. All her life, it's been just the two of them against the world. But now, Catherine is ready…
- TRY THIS IF YOU ENJOYED "CALLER UNKNOWN." 22-year-old Olivia has been missing for one day... and counting. She was last seen on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley. And not coming back out again. Julia, the detective heading up the search for Olivia,…
- APRIL 2026 PICK: Upward Bound is not a place anyone dreams of spending their days. The dreary adult daycare center for Los Angeles's disabled community is, for many of its clients and staff, a place of last resort. This includes Carlos, a young aide…
- TRY THIS IF YOU ENJOYED "UPWARD BOUND." A transcendent debut novel about family, love, and belonging, set against the backdrops of 1950s New York City and a historical leprosarium in Louisiana, following one young man's quest to not only survive,…
- TRY THIS IF YOU ENJOYED "UPWARD BOUND." Twelve-year-old Miv is panicking. Life has been complicated since her mom got sick, and now her dad is talking about wanting to move their family away from the town Miv has lived in her whole life because of…
- MARCH 2026 PICK: When young folk singer Elle Harlow reaches the height of her prowess in 1973, she has two wildly beloved albums to her name and a hidden history of impossible heartbreak. After she sets foot on the famed Grand Ole Opry stage, a far…
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