Celebrity book club picks for March 2026

by Amy Jo Burns

🎧 Audiobook

Young folk singer Elle Harlow reaches the height of her prowess in 1973, with two wildly beloved albums to her name and a hidden history of impossible heartbreak. When she sets foot on the famed Grand Ole Opry stage, a far cry from the mountain that raised her, Elle gives the biggest performance of her life. Then, to the dismay of shocked fans, her producer, and the man who still loves her, she vanishes.

💬 From Jenna: "This is an emotional mystery about music, legacy, loss, and love—about the power of memory and what connects us across time.”

by Tayari Jones

🎧 Audiobook

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. A novel about mothers and daughters, friendships and sisterhood, and the complexities of being a woman in the American South, Kin is an exuberant, emotionally rich, unforgettable work from one of the brightest and most irresistible voices in contemporary fiction.

💬 From Oprah’s Book Club: “This is a masterpiece of a novel that contemplates the meaning and complications of love and friendship, and it will live with you long after you turn the last page.”

by Rachel Hochhauser

🎧 Audiobook

Twice-widowed, Lady Etheldreda Verity Isolde Tremaine Bramley is solely responsible for her two children, a priggish stepdaughter, a razor-taloned peregrine falcon, and a crumbling manor. Fierce and determined, Ethel clings to the respectability her deceased husband’s title affords her, hoping it will secure her daughters’ future through marriage. As if Bridgerton met Circe, and exhilarating to its core, Lady Tremaine reimagines the myth of the evil stepmother at the heart of the world’s most famous fairy tale. It’s a battle cry for a mother’s love for her daughters, and a celebration of women everywhere who make their own fortunes.

💬 From Reese: “You think you know the villain... until you hear her side of the story.”

by Kristin Dwyer

🎧 Audiobook

You’ve Reached Sam meets Before I Fall in this gripping speculative romance about one girl saving her first love’s life by falling for the last person she ever should—her best friend. 

💬 From Sunnie Reads: “Our March Sunnie Select is In Time With You by Kristin Dwyer, a second-chance love story told across timelines, where one choice can change everything. If you’ve ever wondered ‘what if we met at the right time?’ … this one’s for you.”

by Elizabeth Arnott

🎧 Audiobook

Beverly, Elsie, and Margot are not your average housewives. They’re all wives of convicted killers. During the sun-drenched summer of 1966, the three women form an unlikely friendship after the discoveries of their husbands’ brutal crimes. With their exes—some of California’s most infamous murderers—dead or behind bars, they’re attempting to forge a new future for themselves.

💬 From GMA: “Real Housewives...but make it a murder mystery.”

by Cliodhna O'Sullivan

🎧 Audiobook

In the first book of a heart-pounding, Irish-inspired debut romantasy series set in a world of dragons and magic, one girl must make an impossible decision: watch the boy she loves get exiled for lack of magic, or pass her formidable powers off as his own.

💬 From GMA YA: “Magic! Romance! Dragons! This YA pick is simply good craic!”

by Roxane Gay

🎧 Audiobook

In these fun and insightful essays, Gay takes us through her journey of her evolution as a women of color while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years and commenting on the state of feminism today. The portrait that emerges is not only one of an incredible insightful woman continually growing to understand herself and our society, but also our culture.

💬 From Dua Lipa: “It’s an essay collection that feels like a conversation with your smartest, funniest, wisest friend who’s always prepared to work things out alongside you.”

by Anna Kovatcheva

🎧 Audiobook

A heady, dark-hued Gothic gem of a debut novel: in 19th-century Bulgaria, a self-proclaimed vampire slayer—in truth, a traveling con artist—joins forces with a teenage girl to create a monster deadly enough to vanquish their own demons.

💬 From Raegan: “March’s pick is dark, sharp, and a little unsettling in the best way. Think obsession, transformation, and a story that asks what happens when you decide to stop making yourself smaller.”

by Kim Fu

🎧 Audiobook

In the aftermath of her mother’s death, Eleanor is unmoored. For years, her mother orchestrated every detail of her life—from meals, to laundry, to finances—so that Eleanor could focus on her career as a therapist. Left to navigate the world on her own, Eleanor clings to her mother’s final directive: use her inheritance to buy a house.

💬 From Belletrist: “This is the kind of book that unsettles you in the best way. Lush, atmospheric, quietly devastating and impossible to put down.”

by Carol Bensimon

🎧 Audiobook

In 1988, shortly after Brazil reestablishes democratic rule, a state congressman is shot and killed in Porto Alegre. The main suspect: a close friend and colleague in congress, Representative Raul Matzenbacher.

💬 From Tea Time: “It’s a bit thriller, a bit daddy issues.”

by Jamie Quatro

Sharp-edged and fearless, mixing white-hot yearning with daring humor, Jamie Quatro’s debut collection is a beautiful and disquieting portrait of infidelity, faith, and family.

by Jim Newton

🎧 Audiobook

A kaleidoscopic history of the Grateful Dead that explores the American counterculture through the life of iconoclastic frontman Jerry Garcia, and his merry band.

💬 From John: “In bad times we need reckless trouble makers to pursue absurdity and offer something stupid and fun and free.”

by Ken Kesey

🎧 Audiobook

Oregon's Stamper family does what it can to survive a bitter strike dividing their tiny logging community. And as tensions rise, delicate family bonds begin to fray and unravel.

💬 From John: “In a really isolated outcast community the people that populate the book are outcasts from each other. There’s something so hard and remote about the lives they lead. Lives that have no nostalgia for a better time because it’s always been this hard. I don’t know what it’s like to be driving around the country in a bus on acid for half a decade but while he was doing that Kesey wrote a truly great American novel.”