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March 3, 2026

In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of March 2nd and March 9th that we think will be of interest to Bookreporter.com readers, along with Bonus News, where we call out a contest, feature or review that we want to let you know about so you have it on your radar.

This week, we are calling attention to our special contest for WHEN THE CRANES FLY SOUTH, the runaway international bestseller by debut novelist Lisa Ridzén and a Bookreporter.com Bets On selection from last year. We have 25 copies to give away to those who would like to read the book, answer some questions about it, share their comments, and submit a question for Lisa that she may answer during an upcoming “Bookaccino Live” Book Group program.

March 2026

March's Books on Screen roundup includes the films Reminders of Him and Project Hail Mary; the series premieres of "Scarpetta" on Prime Video, "Jo Nesbø's Detective Hole" and "Vladimir" on Netflix, "R.J. Decker" on ABC, and "Imperfect Women" on Apple TV; the season premieres of STARZ's "Outlander" and Netflix's "Virgin River"; the midseason premieres of "Tracker" and "Watson" on CBS; the series finale of HBO Max's "Like Water for Chocolate"; the season finales of "When Calls the Heart" on Hallmark Channel and "Cross" on Prime Video; the continuation of Apple TV's "The Last Thing He Told Me"; and the DVD/Blu-ray releases of Hamnet, Killers of the Flower Moon, The Housemaid and The Running Man.

March 3, 2026

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this spring. Read more about it, and enter our Spring Reading Contest by Wednesday, March 4th at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THAT'S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR by Wade Rouse, which is now available. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

Special Preview: Bookreporter.com's Spring Reading 2026

This Bookreporter.com SPECIAL PREVIEW Newsletter brings you a sneak peek at the titles that are included in our Spring Reading feature.

Each title below will be featured in a contest where you will have a 24-hour window of opportunity to enter for your chance to win a copy of the book being featured that day. You will need to act quickly! Learn more about the feature here.

We encourage you to scroll down and click on each image to read more about that book on our site.

If you know anyone who you think may be interested in these 24-hour contests, please forward this newsletter to them so they can sign up for it.

Our first contest kicks off TOMORROW, Tuesday, March 3rd at noon ET. Best of luck to you, and Happy Spring Reading!

February 28, 2026

We will be holding our February book club meeting in March. Snow marred our February plans as yet another storm hit. I am betting other groups had the same issue. We are reading THE BOOK CLUB FOR TROUBLESOME WOMEN by Marie Bostwick. It would be fun to define who your book group is for!

The morning after we hold meetings at my house, my husband likes to collect empty wine bottles. He jokes that he uses that to gauge a successful book group.

C. J. Box, author of The Crossroads: A Joe Pickett Novel

Marybeth Pickett gets the call she has always dreaded: her husband, Joe, is in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head. Joe was found in his pickup at Antler Creek Junction, a crossroads connecting three ranches. Each road leading to a dangerous family. Each family with a different bone to pick with the local game warden. Marybeth and the new sheriff assume that Joe was ambushed by one of the families, but they have no idea which one since Joe didn’t say where he was going or why. With Joe unconscious and fighting for his life with Marybeth at his side, Sheridan, April and Lucy split up and investigate each of the families to uncover the truth of what happened to their father before it’s too late.

Lauren Groff, author of Brawler: Stories

Ranging from the 1950s to the present day and moving across age, class and region --- from New England to Florida to California --- these nine stories reflect and expand upon a shared theme: the ceaseless battle between humans’ dark and light angels. “In every human there is both an animal and a god wrestling unto death,“ one character tells us. Among those we see caught in this match are a young woman suddenly responsible for her disabled sibling, a hot-tempered high school swimmer in need of an adult, a mother blinded by the loss of her family, and a banking scion endowed with a different kind of inheritance. Motivated by love, impeded by the double edges of other peoples’ good intentions, they try to do the right thing for as long as they can.

Anna Quindlen, author of More Than Enough

High school English teacher Polly Goodman can talk about everything and anything with the women in her book club, which is why they’ve become her closest friends and, along with her veterinarian husband, the bedrock of her life. Her students, her fraught relationship with her mother, her struggles with IVF --- Polly’s book club friends have heard about it all. But when they give Polly an ancestry test kit as a joke, the results match her with a stranger. It is clear to Polly that this match is a mistake, but still she cannot help but comb through her family history for answers. Then, when it seems that the book club circle of four will become three, Polly learns how friendships can change your life in the most profound ways.

Tayari Jones, author of Kin

Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood but are fated to live starkly different lives. Raised by a fierce aunt determined to give her a stable home in the wake of her mother’s death, Vernice leaves Honeysuckle at 18 for Spelman College, where she joins a sisterhood of powerfully connected Black women and discovers a world of affluence, manners, aspiration and inequality. Annie, abandoned by her mother as a child and fixated on the idea of finding her and filling the bottomless hole left by her absence, sets off on a journey that will take her into a world of peril and adversity, as well as love and adventure, culminating in a battle for her life.

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