March reading roundups
Spring book lists are live: Boston.com named five most-anticipated spring releases, the LA Times highlighted four buzzy mysteries (including Jose Ando and Caroline Glenn), BookishAF curated the buzziest March picks, and Eater rounded up six new food books and memoirs for the season ( ).
Boston.com’s pick set names and dates: Rosie Hewlett’s Sweetbitter Song (released March 17, 2026), Tara Menon’s Under Water (March 17, 2026), David George Haskell’s How Flowers Made Our World (March 24, 2026), Caro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear (April 7, 2026) and Xochitl Gonzalez’s Last Night in Brooklyn (April 21, 2026). (boston.com ) (boston.com) The LA Times roundup (republished by outlets including Yahoo and AOL) foregrounds revenge-driven mysteries such as Jose Ando’s Jackson Alone — serialized in Japan in 2022, translated into English by Kalau Almony, and issued in the U.S. by Soho Press — and Caroline Glenn’s debut Cruelty Free, which William Morrow published in early 2026. (latimes.com ) (yahoo.com) BookishAF’s Substack posts in March were authored by Audry Fryer and included “5 Books for a Fresh Start this Spring!” (Mar. 4) and a March 11 roundup noting new collaborations and book-club picks, positioning the newsletter as a small-curator source for buzzy March releases. (bookishaf.substack.com ) (bookishaf.substack.com) Eater’s spring roundup lists six new food books and memoirs and frames the list around a surge of culinary memoirs plus a recently published, fast-paced history of French cuisine among the season’s food titles. (eater.com ) (eater.com)
