Jenna Bush Hager and Lauren Graham Bonded Over the “Today” Host's Book Recommendations — And “Gilmore Girls ”(Exclusive)

Where Jenna Bush Hager leads, Lauren Graham will follow!

Speaking with PEOPLE at a Read with Jenna event in New York City on Feb 10, the Today show co-anchor, 43, revealed that the Gilmore Girls star was a fan of her many book recommendations.

“I'll just say that Lauren Graham, who was the mom on Gilmore Girls, was like, ‘I love your book recommendations,’” Bush Hager said. “And I was like, ‘I loved your television show.’”

Bush Hager spoke with Graham, 57, who stars in the comedy series The Z-Suite, on a Jan. 31 episode of Today with Jenna & Friends. Bush Hager leads the show with a rotating list of celebrity co-hosts, following the departure of Hoda Kotb from Today in January.

At the Feb. 10 event, Bush Hager was in conversation with Jessica Soffer, whose novel This Is a Love Story is the February Read with Jenna book club selection. Bush Hager told PEOPLE that she was enamored with the novel, which chronicles the decades-long marriage between a couple who meet in Central Park.

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“I loved this book so much,” Bush Hager said. “I was weeping ... Who could tell you that you would meet two characters in their 70s and you would fall so immersed in the story and history of their love [and] everything that goes along with it, that, when you close the book, you would miss these people?”

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“Most writers cannot do that, and Jessica was able to do it,” Bush Hager added. “This is a beautiful love story and I was thrilled to be able to bring it to as many readers as possible in the month of love.”

Bush Hager has been sharing her love of literature through Read with Jenna since its 2019 launch, though the host also noted she “never dreamed” she would launch the book club in the first place.

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“I love to read, and I also love people who love to read,” Bush Hager said. “I love having conversations with my sister [Barbara] about books that we both are really into, or my friends. I feel things aren't linear. I wasn't like, 'Oh, I can't wait to start a book club.' It was sort of a dare.”

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In January, Bush Hager also launched her book imprint Thousand Voices Books, in collaboration with The Random House Publishing Group, part of Penguin Random House LLC. Thousand Voices Books will publish a variety of genres, including romance, literary fiction, memoir and romantasy — and Bush Hager says the new endeavor has led to a unique problem for herself.

“I'm putting myself in a precarious situation, working, running a national book club, and also  publishing books,” Bush Hager said. “I've started a mad, mad reading trend, so I need to actually write down how many books [I read].”

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