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

Nearly six years after becoming a literary heavyweight with “Read with Jenna,” she’s starting her own publishing venture with Penguin Random House.

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