A chicken heist, a witchy field hockey team, the end to Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy, a new novel from master of fantasy N.K. Jemisin, and the long-awaited return of Emily St. John Mandel are waiting for you in March.
3/3: Actress by Anne Enright – Norah, daughter of Irish theatre legend Katherine O’Dell, retraces her mother’s celebrated career and bohemian life in an effort to understand her mother’s hidden truths, and the role of celebrity and sexual power in both their lives.
3/3: Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth – Two auditors for the US egg industry go rogue and conceive a plot to steal a million chickens in the middle of the night. Assembling a precarious, quarrelsome team, a series of catastrophes ensues.
3/3: Deacon King Kong by James McBride – When a church deacon in 1969 Brooklyn shoots a drug dealer at point blank range, the lives of the witnesses swirl together in this wise and witty neighborhood saga. A Peak Pick!
3/3: Separation Anxiety by Laura Zigman – A novel about a wife and mother whose life is unraveling and the well-intentioned but increasingly disastrous steps she takes to course-correct her relationships, her career, and her belief in herself.
3/3: These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card – A luminous family saga that follows generations of the Paisley family from colonial Jamaica to present-day Harlem, as they each struggle to forge independent identities outside of their family.
3/3: The God Child by Nana Oforiatta Ayim – This coming-of-age novel follows Maya, the only child of an expat Ghanaian couple in Germany, as she finds her freedom in the midst of familial, cultural, and political constraints.
3/3: House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas –Half-Fae, half-human Bryce Quinlan seeks revenge in a world of magic, danger, and searing romance in this first book in the new Crescent City series.
3/3: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich – In 1953 Thomas Wazhashk, a night watchman and Chippewa Council member, carries the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C. A Peak Pick!
3/3: Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn – The legends of Hawaiian gods are folded into an engrossing family saga, as the Flores family grapples with signs of favor from ancient Hawaiian gods, the bonds of family, and the meaning of heritage.
3/3: We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry – Set in the Massachusetts town where the accusations began that led to the 1692 witch trials, the 1989 Danvers High School Falcons field hockey team will do anything to make it to the state finals – even if it means tapping into some devilishly dark powers.
3/3: Writers and Lovers by Lily King – A novel of art, love, and ambition follows writer Casey Peabody in her determination to live a creative life. By the author of Euphoria.
3/10: The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel – Tracing the final years of Thomas Cromwell, Mantel concludes the trilogy begun with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.
3/10: My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell – Seventeen years after having an affair with her high school English teacher, the #MeToo movement and a student who now accuses the teacher of sexual abuse forces Vanessa to relive and reconsider her memories of the relationship. A Peak Pick!
3/10: New Waves by Kevin Nguyen – A debut novel about a heist gone wrong, a secret online life exposed, and a young man’s search for true connection.
3/10: So We Can Glow by Leesa Cross-Smith – Forty-two short stories explore female obsession and desire from the 1980s through the present day.
3/17: 88 Names by Matt Ruff – In this immersive virtual reality epic, John Chu works as a guide to online role-playing games, guaranteeing you a top-flight experience. Things get complicated when a new client may be North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, another may be a Chinese agent, and his ex-girlfriend is out for revenge.
3/24: The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin – Five New Yorkers must come together to defend their city from an ancient evil. By the author of The Fifth Season. A Peak Pick!
3/24: Everlasting by Katy Simpson-Smith – Over four centuries in Rome, four characters struggle with love, questions of good and evil, obedience and free will.
3/24: The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel – In this captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise, a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it. By the author of Station Eleven. A Peak Pick!
3/24: The Herd by Andrea Bartz – Why did the founder of a glamorous coworking space for women disappear? Her best friends will risk everything to uncover the truth.
3/24: Lakewood by Megan Giddings – When her grandmother dies and the full extent of her family’s debt is revealed, Lena Johnson takes a job as part of a secret research program that seems too good to be true in a remote Michigan town in this novel about race, class, and medical experimentation.
3/31: August by Callan Wink – From a Michigan dairy farm to a ranch in rural Montana, August endures his parent’s messy divorce, tries to be the average teen, and discovers that even the smallest communities have dark secrets in this coming-of-age novel.
3/31: Days of Distraction by Alexandra Chang – A young woman escapes her job by following her longtime boyfriend to upstate New York. She’s finally free to decide her own path, but unsure if she knows herself enough to choose wisely.
3/31: It’s Not All Downhill From Here by Terry McMillan – After a sudden change of plans, a remarkable woman and her loyal group of friends try to figure out what she’s going to do with the rest of her life.
Book descriptions adapted from publisher copy.
~ posted by Andrea G.
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