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Celebrity bookworms are present to stay.
Ever since Oprah Winfrey started her iconic book nine successful nan ’90s, celebrities including Reese Witherspoon, Emma Roberts, Dua Lipa and Jenna Bush Hager person joined nan ranks, picking monthly books that skyrocket to nan apical of nan bestseller lists.
“I perfectly emotion reading, I emotion nan thought of sharing really books make group consciousness … books are really important to maine and if I tin stock that successful immoderate way, past I consciousness for illustration I’m connected nan correct track,” Lipa told Elle UK successful 2023.
Roberts, who started Belletrist pinch champion friend Karah Preiss successful 2017, told AP that giving book recommendations brings her “so overmuch joy.”
Witherspoon, meanwhile, built an empire connected books pinch her Hello Sunshine media company, highlighting divers female authors.
See beneath for each nan March personage book nine picks.
Jenna Bush Hager’s Read pinch Jenna Book Club March 2026 pick: “Wait For Me” Amy Jo Burns
Goodreads rating: 4.09/5
“March is almost here, and truthful is our @readwithjenna March pick, ‘Wait for Me’ by Amy Jo Burns!” Bush Hager announced alongside her caller pick.
“In this novel, we travel 2 women — a rising state people prima successful 1973 named Elle Harlow, whose ascent to fame is arsenic swift arsenic her mysterious disappearance, and Marijohn Shaw, who uncovers Elle’s past 20 years later. This is an affectional enigma astir music, legacy, loss, and emotion — astir nan powerfulness of representation and what connects america crossed time. I dream you emotion this 1 conscionable arsenic overmuch arsenic I do.”
Dua Lipa’s Service95 Book Club March 2026 pick: “Bad Feminist” by Roxane Gay
Goodreads rating: 3.92/5
“Introducing ‘Bad Feminist’… Though really, it’s a book that needs nary introduction,” Lipa announced of her March book. “My Monthly Read for March is, this time, a postulation of essays: ‘Bad Feminist’ by nan inimitable Roxane Gay. And if you cognize Roxane’s activity arsenic a writer, professor, editor and societal commentator, you tin expect much of her signature wit and unflinching honesty successful this.
“This book feels for illustration a speech pinch your smartest, funniest, wisest friend. If you’re wondering really it’s imaginable to beryllium a feminist to your halfway astatine nan aforesaid clip arsenic loving lyrically problematic songs, reality TV and nan occasional questionable romcom, congratulations, you are precisely nan benignant of ‘bad feminist’ Roxane Gay is talking about.”
Lipa added, “I can’t hold to perceive your thoughts connected this one. Bring your basking takes, your contradictions, and your champion – baddest – feminist rants.”
“Good Morning America” Book Club March 2026 pick: “The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives” by Elizabeth Arnott
Goodreads rating: 3.85/5
“Real Housewives…but make it a murder-mystery,” “GMA” wrote, describing their caller pick.
“You’ll beryllium dying to publication our March #GMABookClub prime #TheSecretLivesOfMurderersWives by @elizabetharnottwrites – a communicative arsenic overmuch astir sisterhood and endurance arsenic it is astir murder.”
Dakota Johnson’s TeaTime Book Club March 2026 pick: “Diorama” by Carol Bensimon
Goodreads rating: 4.26/5
“This period we’re reference ‘Diorama’ by Carol Bensimon. It’s a spot thriller, a spot daddy issues,” Johnson’s TeaTime book nine announced.
“In sleek, arresting prose imbued pinch nan suspense-filled separator of a true-crime thriller, Diorama cements Carol Bensimon’s position arsenic 1 of nan astir move voices successful modern Brazilian lit and demonstrates her communicative gifts astatine their apex. Fusing constabulary procedural, coming-of-age story, and family drama, Diorama is simply a moving enigma astir really we retrieve what’s passed, endangering our notions of what is aliases isn’t still live wrong each of us.”
Katie Couric’s Book Club March 2026 pick: “More Than Enough” by Anna Quindlen
Goodreads rating: 4.11/5
“KCBC’s March Book Club Pick is here… 📚 We’re diving into ‘More Than Enough’ by Anna Quindlen,” Couric announced of her latest read.
“Elin Hilderbrand was raving astir this book, truthful I picked it up and what tin I say, I emotion Anna Quindlen. She’s truthful prolific. She’s written truthful overmuch fabrication and truthful overmuch nonfiction. I consciousness for illustration we’ve aged together successful a way. I deliberation you’re going to really emotion this book,” she said.
Natalie Portman’s Nat’s Book Club March 2026 pick: “The Beginning Comes After nan End” by Rebecca Solnit
Goodreads rating: 4.33/5
“For our March book pick, we couldn’t thief but take different of Rebecca Solnit’s beautiful books, and 1 that feels particularly important correct now: ‘The Beginning Comes After nan End,'” Portman announced.
“A sequel to her unthinkable ‘Hope successful nan Dark,’ Solnit traces nan quiet dismantling of an aged civilization and nan building of a caller 1 rooted successful interconnection, antiracism, feminism, and Indigenous wisdom. Even arsenic authoritarianism pushes toward isolation, she shows america nan countercurrent already taking shape.”
Oprah Winfrey’s Book Club existent pick: “Kin” by Tayari Jones
Goodreads rating: 4.41/5
“My adjacent @oprahsbookclub action is ‘Kin’ by @tayari Jones. This profoundly eloquent yet acquainted caller follows 2 motherless daughters, Vernice and Annie, who are puerility champion friends successful Honeysuckle, Louisiana. They turn up together—but arsenic life would person it, they return other paths successful adulthood, 1 into polished privilege, nan different into a volatile hunt for belonging, testing what relationship tin survive, what mothers time off behind, and really acold a female will spell to declare a life of her own,” Winfrey wrote of her first 2026 book pick.
“Reading this book felt for illustration being welcomed to a family reunion pinch group who person go your kin done humor aliases life experience. It will unrecorded wrong you agelong aft decorativeness reference it.”
Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club March 2026 pick: “Lady Tremaine” by Rachel Hochhauser
Goodreads rating: 4.44/5
“You deliberation you cognize nan villain… until you perceive her broadside of nan story. This March, our @reesesbookclub prime is ‘Lady Tremaine’ by Rachel Hochhauser, a reimagining of Cinderella’s stepmother that explores motherhood, family, and nan unit to beryllium perfect,” Witherspoon captioned her March book announcement.
Emma Roberts and Karah Preiss’s Belletrist Book Club March 2026 pick: “The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts” by Kim Fu
Goodreads rating: 3.52/5
“Our March Book of nan Month is ‘The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts’ by Kim Fu,” Belletrist wrote alongside their caller pick. “It’s 1 of nan eeriest, smartest novels we’ve publication successful years. “From nan superb mind down ‘Lesser Known Monsters of nan 21st Century’ comes a spellbinding communicative of grief, guilt, and nan quiet absurdities of modern life.
“This is nan benignant of book that unsettles you successful nan champion way. Lush, atmospheric, softly devastating and intolerable to put down. We cannot hold to publication it alongside you this period and unravel each strange, waterlogged furniture together.”
