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Books Mom Will Love 2026

Mother’s Day is a time to recognize the woman who raised and nurtured us. To celebrate, we're giving you the opportunity to win books for yourself or the special lady in your life in Bookreporter.com's 21st annual “Books Mom Will Love” contest.

From now through Monday, May 11th at noon ET, readers can enter to win one of our five prize packages, which includes five great titles that we think moms will love.

This year's prize books are:

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Week of April 20, 2026

Paperback releases for the week of April 20th include JAMES, Percival Everett's brilliant, action-packed reimagining of ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN told from the enslaved Jim's point of view, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; THE MISSING HALF, a captivating mystery from Ashley Flowers and Alex Kiester, in which two women who are haunted by their sisters’ unsolved disappearances band together; THE 10, a beautifully written, deeply felt memoir recounting the solo, cross-country journey that E.A. Hanks made along the Ten across the American southwest; and the paperback original THE MOUNTAINS WE CALL HOME, a stand-alone and companion novel to Kim Michele Richardson's Book Woman of Troublesome Creek series, which marks the return of legendary book woman Cussy Lovett.

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