March 2026 - What are you reading?
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Anonymous
| I’m currently in the middle of My Dark Vanessa and I am enjoying it, with a sense of dread. |
Anonymous
| Reading The Story of a New Name, the second Neapolitan novel by Elena Ferrante. Like I posted in last month’s thread I recently finished My Brilliant Friend, after seeing it is #1 on the NYT list of 21st century fiction. I don’t really agree with that placement but it was good enough for me to commit to the whole series. |
Anonymous
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I just finished “Shark House” by Sara Ackerman (book club pick), about a shark researches working to solve a series of mysterious shark incidents on the Big Island, set in the 1990s. The writing was very basic/YA, the characters were flat, pacing a bit slow, and the MC was either immature or willfully naive at times. I did enjoy learning about sharks and the setting.
After a few duds, I want something well written and engaging next—thinking either O’Farell’s “Marriage Portrait” or Osman’s “The Impossible Fortune” (most recent Thursday Murder Club book). |
Anonymous
| The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny |
Anonymous
| Just finished Robert Jackson Bennett's The Tainted Cup, now starting The Anarchy by William Dalrymple and Heart Lamp (for a book group). |
Anonymous
Marriage Portrait is quite good! |
Anonymous
| I am reading Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner. |
Anonymous
+1. I am enjoying it, but why is it so long?! |
Anonymous
Not PP, but it is worth it. It was easily my favorite book of 2025. |
Anonymous
| Just finished The Mad Wife by Meagan Church—a chilling portrayal of a housewife expected to be perfect in the 1950s. I really don’t want to say more without spoilers, but I could not put this one down. |
Anonymous
| Currently about halfway through Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden. I paused reading The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver to read it as soon as it became available from the library. |
Anonymous
The Briar Club and the Four Tendencies. I like both. I’m an upholder 
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Anonymous
| I'm about halfway through "Buckeye" and am finding it very good. Reminds me of John Irving's books. |
Anonymous
| The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. It's very, very good. A spy novel, but also an account of the end and aftermath of the Vietnam War from a Vietnamese perspective. |
Anonymous
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Just starting Big Swiss. Love her writing so far.
Also listening to Severance by Ling Ma, after another reader posted they didn’t like it annd didn’t understand why she got an MacArthur …and I’m liking it so far and can totally see why she got a MacArthur. There really is a reader for every book. 
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