“Our mission is to highlight debut and diverse writers,” Bush Hager tells PEOPLE of her book club’s selection process

What is it about family sagas that seem to make book clubs more interesting? Maybe it's because we know interpersonal relationships can be a little dysfunctional. It could be that we still don't know how to communicate with the people we love the most.

In March 2019, she picked the inaugural novel in the Read with Jenna book club, and every month since then, she’s highlighted one book (or two, during select months) and that bo