March 2024 New Book Releases

14 March Books on my TBR

March 2024 truly is shaping up to be an exceptional month of new book releases. Here are the 14 titles I’ve added to my TBR.

March 5

Bye, Baby // Carola Lovering (St Martin’s Press)

From the author of the Hulu sensation Tell Me Lies comes an obsessive, addictive novel about female friendship, a missing baby, and the toxic, secret history between two women.

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Expiration Dates // Rebecca Serle (Atria) {Read My Review}

Being single is like playing the lottery. There’s always the chance that with one piece of paper you could win it all. A gripping, emotional, passionate, and (yes) heartbreaking novel about what it means to be single, what it means to find love, and ultimately how we define each of them for ourselves. 

From the New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years and One Italian Summer comes the romance that will define a generation.

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The Fruit of the Dead // Rachel Lyon (Scribner)

An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, about addiction and sex, family and independence, and who holds the power in a modern underworld.

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The Great Divide // Cristina Henriquez (Ecco)

A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there.

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Help Wanted // Adelle Waldman (Norton)

A humane and darkly comic workplace caper that shines a light on the odds low-wage workers are up against in today’s economy, Help Wanted is a funny, moving tale of ordinary people trying to make a living.

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This Could Be Us // Kennedy Ryan (Forever) {Read My Review}

An unlikely man enters the picture—the forbidden one, the one she shouldn’t want but can’t seem to resist. She’s lost it all before and refuses to repeat her mistakes. Can she trust him? Can she trust herself?

Book 2 in the Skyland series that begins with Before I Let Go though both books can be enjoyed as stand alones.

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March 12

Victim // Andrew Boryga (Doubleday)

There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bold-faced lies, and Javier Perez is willing to cross it. Victim is a fearless satire about a hustler from the Bronx who sees through the veneer of diversity initiatives and decides to cash in on the odd currency of identity.

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Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom // Grace Blakeley (Atria)

In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto from an acclaimed journalist illustrates how corporate and political power brokers have used planned capitalism to advance their own interests at the expense of the rest of us—and how we can take back our economy for all.

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March 19

The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church // Sarah McCammon (St Martin’s Press)

An intimate window into the world of American evangelicalism. Fellow exvangelicals will find McCammon’s story both startlingly familiar and immensely clarifying, while those looking in from the outside can find no better introduction to the subculture that has shaped the hopes and fears of millions of Americans.

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James // Percival Everett (Doubleday)

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view.

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Memory Piece // Lisa Ko (Riverhead)

The award-winning author of The Leavers offers a visionary novel of friendship, art, and ambition that asks: What is the value of a meaningful life?

Moving from the predigital 1980s to the art and tech subcultures of the 1990s to a strikingly imagined portrait of the 2040s, Memory Piece is an innovative and audacious story of three lifelong friends as they strive to build satisfying lives in a world that turns out to be radically different from the one they were promised.

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Rainbow Black // Maggie Thrash (Harper Perennial) {Read my review}

For readers of Donna Tartt and Ottessa Moshfegh comes a brilliant, deliriously entertaining novel from the acclaimed author of Honor Girl. Rainbow Black is part murder mystery, part gay international fugitive love story—set against the ’90s Satanic Panic and spanning 20 years in the life of a young woman pulled into its undertow.

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march 26

A Great Country // Shilpi Somaya Gowda (Mariner) {Read my review}

From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere, exploring the ties and fractures of a close-knit Indian-American family in the aftermath of a violent encounter with the police.

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Worry // Alexandra Tanner (Scribner) {Read my review}

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two siblings-turned-roommates navigating an absurd world on the verge of calamity—a Seinfeldian novel of existentialism and sisterhood.

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