Contemporary & Literary Fiction
The Gospel of Orla
Eoghan Walls
A stunning debut novel from the Northern Irish poet Eoghan Walls, The Gospel of Orla is the coming-of-age story of a young girl, Orla, and the man she meets who has an astonishing and unique ability. It is also a road novel that takes us across the north of England after the two flee Orla’s village together. Here the mysteries of faith charge full bore into the vagaries of contemporary mores. A humorous, wise, deeply human and sometimes breathtaking work of lyrical fiction.
Publication date: March 7
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
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Pineapple Street
Jenny Jackson
A deliciously funny, sharply observed debut of family, love, and class, this zeitgeisty novel follows three women in one wealthy Brooklyn clan. Rife with the indulgent pleasures of life among New York’s one-percenters, Pineapple Street is a smart, escapist novel that sparkles with wit. Full of recognizable, loveable—if fallible—characters, it’s about the peculiar unknowability of someone else’s family, the miles between the haves and have-nots, and the insanity of first love—all wrapped in a story that is a sheer delight.
Publication date: March 7
Publisher: Pamela Dorman (Viking) Books
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What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
Claire Jimenez
A powerful debut novel that’s “hilarious, heartbreaking, and ass-kicking” (Jamie Ford), of a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their long‑missing sister is potentially alive and cast on a reality TV show, and they set out to bring her home.
Publication date: March 7
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Women Are the Fiercest Creatures
Andrea Dunlop
In this wildly addictive novel, three overlooked women take on the charming, manipulative tech CEO who wrote them out of his startup’s history. Set in the wealthy enclaves of Seattle’s tech elite, the lives of these three women grow entangled as long-held secrets are forced to the surface, threatening to destroy their families. Written with razor-sharp intelligence and heart, Women Are the Fiercest Creatures is a searing look at the complexities of family and the obstacles women navigate in every aspect of their existence.
Publication date: March 7
Publisher: Zibby Books
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Hello Beautiful
Ann Napolitano
William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him–so when he meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano in his freshman year of college, it’s as if the world has lit up around him. With Julia comes her family, as she and her three sisters are inseparable. With the Padavanos, William experiences a newfound contentment; every moment in their house is filled with loving chaos. But then darkness from William’s past surfaces, jeopardizing not only Julia’s carefully orchestrated plans for their future, but the sisters’ unshakeable devotion to one another.
Publication date: March 14
Publisher: Dial Press
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Our Best Intentions
Vibhuti Jain
A pulsating debut about an immigrant family that gets caught in the middle of a criminal investigation, perfect for readers of Everything I Never Told You and Ask Again, Yes.
Publication date: March 14
Publisher: William Morrow
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Take What You Need
Ida Novey
Set in the Allegheny Mountains of Appalachia, Take What You Need traces the parallel lives of Jean and her beloved but estranged stepdaughter, Leah, who’s sought a clean break from her rural childhood. Take What You Need explores the continuing mystery of the people we love most with passionate and resonance, this novel illuminating can be built from what others have discarded—art, unexpected friendship, a new contentment of self.
Publication date: March 14
Publisher: Viking
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Biography of X
Catherine Lacey
When X―an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter―falls dead in her office, her widow, wild with grief and refusing everyone’s good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognized as a crucial creative force of her era, she kept a tight grip on her life story. Not even CM, her wife, knew where X had been born, and in her quest to find out, she opens a Pandora’s box of secrets, betrayals, and destruction.
Publication date: March 21
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Community Board
Tara Conklin
Darcy Clipper, prodigal daughter, nearly thirty, has returned home to Murbridge, Massachusetts, after her life takes an unwelcome left turn. Murbridge, Darcy is convinced, will welcome her home and provide a safe space in which she can nurse her wounds and harbor grudges. But Murbridge, like so much else Darcy thought to be fixed and immutable, has changed.
Publication date: March 28
Publisher: Mariner Books
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The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise
Colleen Oakley
A “wildly surprising, entertaining” (Jodi Picoult) novel featuring a college dropout and an eighty-four-year-old woman on the run from the law, full of tremendous heart, wit, and wisdom.
Publication date: March 28
Publisher: Berkley
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Sea Change
Gina Chung
An enchanting novel about Ro, a woman tossed overboard by heartbreak and loss, who has to find her way back to stable shores with the help of a giant Pacific octopus at the mall aquarium where she works.
Publication date: March 28
Publisher: Vintage
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Historical Fiction
The Farewell Tour
Stephanie Clifford
A rich and riveting novel with the exquisite historical detail and evocative settings of The Cold Millions and Great Circle that tells the story of one unforgettable woman’s rise in country and western music. We see her striving to build a career in the male-dominated world of country music, including the hard choices she makes as she tries to redefine music, love, aging, and womanhood on her own terms. Nearing her final tour stop, Lil is forced to confront her choices and how they shaped her life.
Publication date: March 7
Publisher: Harper
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The Lost English Girl
Julia Kelly
Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what’s expected of her. However, when she finds herself pregnant after a fling with Joshua Levinson, a Jewish musician, Viv knows that a swift wedding is the only answer. Five years later and on the eve of World War II, Viv is faced with the impossible choice to evacuate her young daughter, Maggie, to the countryside estate of the affluent Thompson family. However, tragedy strikes when Viv learns that the countryside safe haven she sent her daughter to wasn’t immune from the horrors of war.
Publication date: March 7
Publisher: Gallery Books
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Dust Child
Nguyen Phan Que Mai
From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving saga about family secrets, hidden trauma, and the overriding power of forgiveness, set during the war and in present-day Việt Nam. Suspenseful, poetic, and perfect for readers of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing, Dust Child tells an unforgettable and immersive story of how those who inherited tragedy can redefine their destinies through love, hard-earned wisdom, compassion, courage, and joy.
Publication date: March 14
Publisher: Algonquin Books
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Daughters of Nantucket
Julie Gerstenblatt
Set against Nantucket’s Great Fire of 1846, this sweeping, emotional novel brings together three courageous women battling to save everything they hold dear…
Publication date: March 14
Publisher: MIRA
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Künstlers in Paradise
Cathleen Schine
There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy tale: Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
Publication date: March 14
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co.
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The Last Russian Doll
Kristen Loesch
A haunting, epic novel about betrayal, revenge, and redemption that follows three generations of Russian women, from the 1917 revolution to the last days of the Soviet Union, and the enduring love story at the center.
Publication date: March 14
Publisher: Berkley
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Beyond That, the Sea
Laura Spence-Ash
A sweeping, tenderhearted love story, Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash tells the story of two families living through World War II on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, and the shy, irresistible young woman who will call them both her own.
Publication date: March 21
Publisher: Celadon Books
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Wandering Souls
Cecile Pin
After the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Thanh, and Minh begin a perilous journey to Hong Kong with the promise that their parents and younger siblings will soon follow. But when tragedy strikes, the three children are left orphaned, and sixteen-year-old Anh becomes the caretaker for her two younger brothers overnight. In the years that follow, Anh and her brothers resettle in the UK and confront their new identities as refugees, first in overcrowded camps and resettlement centers and then, later, in a modernizing London plagued by social inequality and raging anti-immigrant sentiment. Told through lyrical narrative threads, historical research, voices from lost family, and notes by an unnamed narrator, Wandering Souls captures the lives of a family marked by war and loss yet relentless in the pursuit of a better future.
Publication date: March 21
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co.
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Hang the Moon
Jeannette Walls
Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie is her father’s daughter, sharp-witted and resourceful, Eddie is his mother’s son, timid and cerebral. When Sallie tries to teach young Eddie to be more like their father, her daredevil coaching leads to an accident, and Sallie is cast out. Nine years later, she returns, determined to reclaim her place in the family. Sallie confronts the secrets and scandals that hide in the shadows of the Big House, navigates the factions in the family and town, and finally comes into her own as a bold, sometimes reckless bootlegger.
Publication date: March 28
Publisher: Scribner
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Her Lost Words: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
Stephanie Marie Thorton
From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to Frankenstein, a tale of two literary legends—a mother and daughter—discovering each other and finding themselves along the way. A riveting and inspiring novel about a firebrand feminist, her visionary daughter, and the many ways their words transformed our world.
Publication date: March 28
Publisher: Berkley
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The Great Reclamation
Rachel Heng
Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about one boy’s unique gifts and the childhood love that will complicate the fate of his community and country. An aching love story and powerful coming-of-age that reckons with the legacy of British colonialism, the World War II Japanese occupation, and the pursuit of modernity, The Great Reclamation confronts the wounds of progress, the sacrifices of love, and the difficulty of defining home.
Publication date: March 28
Publisher: Riverhead Books
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The Last Carolina Girl
Megan Church
A searing novel for fans of Where the Crawdad’s Sing and The Girls in the Stilt House following one girl fighting for her family, her body, and her right to create a future all her own. Set in 1935 against the very real backdrop of a recently formed state eugenics board, The Last Carolina Girl is a powerful and heart-wrenching story of fierce strength, forgotten history, autonomy, and the places and people we ultimately call home.
Publication date: March 28
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
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The Perfumist of Paris (The Jaipur Trilogy, #3)
Alka Joshi
the final chapter in Alka Joshi’s New York Times bestselling Jaipur trilogy takes readers to 1970s Paris, where Radha’s budding career as a perfumer must compete with the demands of her family and the secrets of her past.
Publication date: March 28
Publisher: MIRA
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Romance
Off the Map
Trish Doller
Carla Black’s life motto is “here for a good time, not for a long time.” Eamon Sullivan is a modern-day cartographer who creates digital maps. Fate throws them together when Carla arrives in Dublin for her best friend’s wedding and Eamon is tasked with picking her up from the airport. But what should be a simple drive across Ireland quickly becomes complicated with chemistry-filled detours, unexpected feelings, and a chance at love – if only they choose it.
Publication date: March 7
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
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Something Wild & Wonderful
Anita Kelly
From the author of Love & Other Disasters comes a sparkling grumpy-meets-sunshine romance featuring two men’s sweeping journey across the Western wilderness on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Publication date: March 7
Publisher: Forever
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Love and Other Flight Delays
Denise Williams
Love takes flight in a collection of sexy, fun novellas all set at the airport from the acclaimed author of The Fastest Way to Fall.
Publication date: March 14
Publisher: Berkley
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Love & Other Scams
Philip Ellis
Single, broke, and about to be ejected from her London flat, Cat feels left behind by her friends, who are all either married or engaged. At least if she picked a few pockets when fellow wedding guests get handsy, no one’s the wiser. No one, that is, except her favorite bartender, Jake, who has his own less-than-legal side hustle. When she’s unceremoniously fired and roped into bridesmaid duties for best frenemy Louisa, Cat can’t help but notice that Louisa’s ring sure would solve a lot of problems. But Cat isn’t as skilled a thief as Jake is, so to pull off the scheme of their lives, they’ll have to pair up.
Publication date: March 14
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
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The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2)
Lynn Painter
Two people make a wager on who can find love first, not realizing what they should be betting on is each other, in this new romantic comedy by Lynn Painter, New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Wrong Number.
Publication date: March 14
Publisher: Berkley
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The Only Game in Town
Lacie Waldon
Nothing ever changes in Redford, Georgia. That’s what freelance editor Jess Reid loves about her hometown—and part of what keeps her from leaving. Content taking care of her father, Jess is resigned to a safe, unremarkable existence…until Jasper Wilhelm, the town’s eccentric benefactor, dies suddenly. At the funeral, it’s revealed that Jasper has devised a massive, high-stakes game for the people of Redford, with the winning duo taking home his entire fortune. The catch? He’s already taken the liberty of pairing them up.
Publication date: March 21
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
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Thrillers, Mysteries, & Horror
All That Is Mine I Carry With Me
William Landay
A mother vanished. A father presumed guilty. There is no proof. There are no witnesses. For the children, there is only doubt. A tale about family—family secrets and vengeance, but also family love—All That Is Mine I Carry With Me masterfully grapples with a primal question: When does loyalty reach its limit?
Publication date: March 7
Publisher: Bantam Books
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Birnam Wood
Eleanor Catton
A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, an undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. A gripping psychological thriller from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its drama, Austenian in its wit, and, like both influences, fascinated by what makes us who we are. A brilliantly constructed study of intentions, actions, and consequences, it is a mesmerizing, unflinching consideration of the human impulse to ensure our own survival.
Publication date: March 7
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Confidence
Rafael Frumkin
Best friends (and occasional lovers) Ezra and Orson are teetering on top of the world after founding a company that promises instant enlightenment in this thrilling caper about scams, schemes, and the absurdity of the American Dream.
Publication date: March 7
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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The Dig
Anne Burt
When Sarajevo-born siblings Antonia and Paul join a wealthy Midwestern family in the 1990s, a series of events with deadly consequences is set in motion. Now, with her career on the line and her brother missing, Antonia must race against the clock to confront long-buried family secrets.
Publication date: March 7
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
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The Golden Spoon
Jessa Maxwell
Only Murders in the Building meets The Maid in this darkly beguiling locked-room mystery where someone turns up dead on the set of TV’s hottest baking competition. As the baking competition commences, things begin to go awry. At first, it’s merely sabotage—sugar replaced with salt, a burner turned to high—but when a body is discovered, everyone is a suspect.
Publication date: March 7
Publisher: Atria Books
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Now You See Us
Balli Kaur Jaswal
The wildly entertaining, sharply observed story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore’s elite and band together to solve a murder mystery involving one of their own.
Publication date: March 7
Publisher: William Morrow
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I Love It When You Lie
Kristen Bird
The three Williams girls are as close as sisters can be, and they also share one special trait in common: each of them have a man in their lives that they could do without. When the woman who raised them, their beloved Gran, dies on the eve of her eightieth birthday, the Williams sisters return home to the Appalachian foothills to bury her. But their grandmother won’t be the only one they’ll put in a grave this weekend…because now someone has gone missing in the dark Appalachian woods.
Publication date: March 14
Publisher: MIRA
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I Will Find You
Harlan Coben
Five years ago, an innocent man, David, began a life sentence for murdering his own son. Today he found out his son is still alive. David plans a harrowing escape, determined to achieve the impossible – save his son, clear his own name, and discover the real story of what happened. But with his life on the line and the FBI following his every move, can David evade capture long enough to reveal the shocking truth?
Publication date: March 14
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Red Queen
Juan Gómez-Jurado
Antonia Scott―the daughter of a British diplomat and a Spanish mother―has a gifted forensic mind, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary. But after a personal trauma, she’s refused to continue her work or even leave her apartment. Jon Gutierrez, is offered a chance to salvage his career by a secretive organization that works in the shadows to direct highly sensitive criminal investigations. All he has to do is succeed where many others have failed: Convince a recalcitrant Antonia to come out of her self-imposed retirement, protecting her and helping her investigate a new, terrifying case.
Publication date: March 14
Publisher: Minotaur Books
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Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Jesse Q. Sutanto
Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady—ah, lady of a certain age—who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco’s Chinatown. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her Gen-Z son is up to. Then one morning, Vera trudges downstairs to find a curious thing—a dead man in the middle of her tea shop. A lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties.
Publication date: March 14
Publisher: Berkley
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Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Magical Realism
The God of Endings
Jacqueline Holland
Collette LeSange has been hiding a dark truth: She is immortal. In 1834, Colette’s grandfather granted her the gift of eternal life and since then, she has endured centuries of turmoil and heartache. Now, almost 150 years later, Collette is a lonely artist running an elite fine art school for children in upstate New York. But her life is suddenly upended by the arrival of a gifted child from a troubled home, the return of a stalking presence from her past, and her own mysteriously growing hunger for blood.
Publication date: March 7
Publisher: Flatiron Books
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The Last Beekeeper
Julie Carrick Dalton
It’s been more than a decade since the world has come undone, and Sasha Severn has returned to her childhood home with one goal in mind–find the mythic research her father, the infamous Last Beekeeper, hid before he was incarcerated. While she feels threatened by squatters who have claimed her childhood farm, the friends soon become her newfound family, offering what she hasn’t felt since her father was imprisoned: security and hope. But just as she settles into her new life, Sasha witnesses the impossible – a honeybee, presumed extinct. Sasha’s journey is a meditation on forgiveness and redemption and a reminder to cherish the beauty that still exists in this fragile world.
Publication date: March 7
Publisher: Forge Books
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The London Séance Society
Sarah Penner
Vaudeline D’Allaire is known worldwide for her talent in conjuring the spirits of murder victims to ascertain the identities of the people who killed them. Lenna Wickes has come to Paris to find answers about her sister’s death. When Vaudeline is beckoned to England to solve a high-profile murder, Lenna accompanies her as an understudy. But as the women team up with the London Séance Society to solve the mystery, they begin to suspect that they are not merely out to solve a crime…
Publication date: March 7
Publisher: Park Row
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Weyward
Emilia Hart
A spellbinding story about what may transpire when the natural world collides with a legacy of witchcraft. Weaving together the stories of three extraordinary women across five centuries, Emilia Hart’s Weyward is an enthralling novel of female resilience and the transformative power of the natural world.
Publication date: March 7
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
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American Mermaid
Julia Langbein
A brilliantly funny debut novel that follows a writer lured to Los Angeles to adapt her feminist mermaid novel into a big-budget action film, who believes her heroine has come to life to take revenge for Hollywood’s violations.
Publication date: March 21
Publisher: Doubleday Books
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Chlorine
Jade Song
In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between a literary coming-of-age narrative and a dark unsettling horror tale, told from an adult perspective on the trials and tribulations of growing up in a society that puts pressure on young women and their bodies… a powerful, relevant novel of immigration, sapphic longing, and fierce, defiant becoming.
Publication date: March 28
Publisher: William Morrow
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A House with Good Bones
T. Kingfisher
Sam is excited for this rare extended visit with her mother in North Carolina. But stepping inside, she quickly realizes home isn’t what it used to be. The walls are painted a sterile white. Her mom jumps at the smallest noises and looks over her shoulder even when she’s the only person in the room. And when Sam steps out back to clear her head, she finds a jar of teeth hidden beneath the magazine-worthy rose bushes, and vultures are circling the garden from above.
Publication date: March 28
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
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Lone Women
Victor LaValle
Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, a town on the edge of nowhere, and a bracing new vision of the American West, from the award-winning author of The Changeling.
Publication date: March 28
Publisher: One World
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Young Adult
In Limbo: A Graphic Memoir
Deb JJ Lee
A debut YA graphic memoir about a Korean-American girl’s coming-of-age story—and a coming home story—set between a New Jersey suburb and Seoul, South Korea.
Publication date: March 7
Publisher: First Second Books
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Lies We Sing to the Sea
Sarah Underwood
Each spring, Ithaca condemns twelve maidens to the noose. This is the price vengeful Poseidon demands for the lives of Queen Penelope’s twelve maids. But when that fate comes for Leto, death is not what she thought it would be. Instead, she wakes on a mysterious island and meets a girl with green eyes and the power to command the sea.
Publication date: March 7
Publisher: HarperTeen
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Stateless
Elizabeth Wein
From the beloved #1 bestselling author of Code Name Verity, this thrilling murder mystery set in 1937 Europe soars with intrigue, glamour, secrets, and betrayal.
Publication date: March 14
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
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Brighter than the Sun
Daniel Aleman
This timely and thought-provoking story about a teen girl shouldering impossibly large responsibilities and ultimately learning that she doesn’t have to do it alone is the perfect follow-up to Daniel Aleman’s award-winning debut novel, Indivisible.
Publication date: March 21
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
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Lucha of the Night Forest
Tehlor Kay Mejia
An edge-of-your-seat fantasy about a girl who will do anything to protect her sister—even if it means striking a dangerous bargain. Dark forces, forgotten magic, and a heart-stopping queer romance make this young adult novel a must-read.
Publication date: March 21
Publisher: Make Me a World
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Chaos & Flame
Tessa Gratton & Justina Ireland
From New York Times bestselling author Justina Ireland and Tessa Gratton comes the first book in a ferocious YA fantasy duology featuring ancient magic, warring factions, and a romance between the two people in the world with the most cause to hate one another.
Publication date: March 28
Publisher: Razorbill
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Stars and Smoke
Marie Lu
This smoldering enemies-to-lovers novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu puts a superstar global phenomenon and a hotshot young spy on a collision course with danger – and Cupid’s arrow – in an electric new series perfect for fans of Emily Henry and Nicola Yoon.
Publication date: March 28
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
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In Nightfall
Suzanne Young
In the quaint town of Nightfall, Oregon, it isn’t the dark you should be afraid of—it’s the girls. The Lost Boys meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this propulsive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Treatment.
Publication date: March 28
Publisher: Delacorte Press
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Short Stories
Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
Margaret Atwood
A dazzling collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments, stories that look deeply into the heart of family relationships, marriage, loss and memory, and what it means to spend a life together.
Publication date: March 7
Publisher: Doubleday Books
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Thrillville, USA: Stories
Taylor Koekkoek
A raw and remarkable debut story collection concerning substance abuse, societal alienation, and doomed romance from a writer whose work has appeared in prestigious literary journals.
Publication date: March 21
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Nonfiction
Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began
Leah Hazard
Bringing together medical history, scientific discoveries, and journalistic exploration, Leah Hazard embarks on a journey in search of answers about the body’s most miraculous and contentious organ. A clear-eyed and inclusive examination of the cultural prejudices and assumptions that have made the uterus so poorly understood for centuries, Womb takes a fresh look at an organ that brings us pain and pleasure—a small part of our bodies that has a larger impact than we ever thought possible.
Publication date: March 7
Publisher: Ecco Books
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What’s Eating Us: Women, Food, & the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
Cole Kazdin
Blending personal narrative and investigative reporting, Emmy Award-winning journalist Cole Kazdin reveals that disordered eating is an epidemic crisis killing millions of women.
Publication date: March 7
Publisher: St. Martin’s Essentials
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Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
Alissa Quart
An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled.
Publication date: March 14
Publisher: Ecco Books
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Dear Dolly: Collected Wisdom
Dolly Alderton
Advice and answers to your questions about dating, love, sex, family, friendship and more from the author of Everything I Know About Love and author of the Sunday Times Style column “Dear Dolly.”
Publication date: March 14
Publisher: Harper
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The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, & Modern History’s Most Astonishing Murder Ring
Patti McCracken
The Angel Makers is a true-crime story like no other—a 1920s midwife who may have been the century’s most prolific killer leading a murder ring of women responsible for the deaths of at least 160 men.
Publication date: March 14
Publisher: William Morrow
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We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
Roxanna Asgarian
On March 26, 2018, rescue workers discovered a crumpled SUV and the bodies of two women and several children at the bottom of a cliff beside the Pacific Coast Highway. Investigators soon concluded that the crash was a murder-suicide, but there was more to the story: Jennifer and Sarah Hart, it turned out, were a white married couple who had adopted the six Black children from two different Texas families in 2006 and 2008. Behind the family’s loving facade, however, was a pattern of abuse and neglect that went ignored as the couple withdrew the children from school and moved across the country. The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children―and a searing indictment of the American foster care system.
Publication date: March 14
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
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Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor.
Publication date: March 21
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
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Walk the Walk: How Three Police Chiefs Defied the Odds and Changed Cop Culture
Neil Gross
From “one of the most interesting sociologists of his generation” and a former cop, the story of three departments and their struggle to change aggressive police culture and achieve what Americans want: fair, humane, and effective policing.
Publication date: March 21
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
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Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood
Ruby Warrington
What if being a woman without kids were in fact its own kind of legacy? Taking in themes from intergenerational healing to feminism to environmentalism, this personal look and anthropological dig into a stubbornly taboo topic is a timely and brave reframing of what it means not to be a mom. Our experiences and discourse around non-motherhood are central to women’s ongoing fight for gender equality. And whether we are childless by design or circumstance, we can live without regret, shame, or compromise.
Publication date: March 28
Publisher: Sounds True
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