Boohmarked 2026 Week 12: Reading Themes for March and a Big Oops

How has your week been? What are you reading? Last week I spent working with some of my favorite people. I was reminded about relationship building and in person connections, and how good it is to both be valued and respect other people’s opinions.

What I’m Reading

I finished no books. Zero. Zip. Nada. I am in the middle of Kin, Tayari Jones and the audiobook of King Sorrow, Joe Hill, which is a hefty book, at 896 pages | 26 hours. This week much more reading is on the agenda.

Oops

⮕ Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature … “The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.”

Books for March & Spring

⮕ March is Women’s History Month and New York Public Library Recommenda 31 Books for March: Women’s History Month. It’s quite a varied list including a retelling of Greek myth, a memoir from a former First Lady and gripping multigenerational family sagas.

⮕ Another very thoughtful list can be found at Columbia University Press Blog’s 15 Must Read Books For Women’s History Month 2026.

⮕ Last year (in Bookmarked 2025 Week 11), I linked to Love to Hate Her: Novels About Destructive Women … for those of us who also like darker reads.

⮕ This month is also March Mystery Madness and this year’s theme is Mysteries around the World. This International Mystery Books shelves on Goodreads has loads to choose from – remember The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Steig Larsson? If you haven’t read that series yet – go ahead and add it to your “to be read” list right now!

⮕ The Tournament of Books is underway! Since 2005, the Tournament of Books has been home to a month-long battle royale among the year’s best novels. Each weekday in March, two works of fiction go head to head, with one of our judges deciding which book moves forward in the competition—until one finally wins that year’s coveted Rooster award. The Bracket is the quickest way to see which books are going head to head (and have won so far).

⮕ The Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist was announced recently. Have you read any of the nominees? I haven’t … yet.

⮕ The Academy Awards was on Sunday, and although it celebrates movies, some were related to books. Here’s Your literary guide to the 2026 Oscars and more books to celebrate awards season.

⮕ From The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in March my husband and I are watching Young Sherlock together. So far I like it.

⮕ I love this initiative in the UK – making 2026 The National Year of Reading. It is a UK-wide campaign designed to inspire more people to make reading a regular part of their lives by inviting people to read, listen, share and connect through various events. Explore what’s happening.

⮕ Goodreas shared their Readers’ 79 Most Anticipated Spring Books and what a list! Which book are you most looking forward to reading? I am trying not to get too much into new books because I still have quite a backlog to get through, but there’s some things that caught my eye: new books from Kathryn Stockett, Matt Haig, Elizabeth Strout, Alex Findlay, T. Kingfisher, Monika Kim, James Corey, TJ Klune and Martha Wells (a new Murderbot book!). Lawdamercy!

—- That’s it from me. Cheers to the week ahead!