Top new literary-fiction books in March 2024
Last updated:
March 31, 2024
March 2024 featuring new releases by Rebecca Serle, Tana French, Micaiah Johnson, Graeme Simsion, Anne Buist, Helen Oyeyemi, Téa Obreht, Kate Clayborn, Joanna Goodman, Natasha Pulley, Xóchitl González and many more.
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Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle
Being single is like playing the lottery. There’s always the chance that with one piece of paper you could win it all.From the New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years and One Italian Summer comes the romance that will define a generation.Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan for her...romance · magical-realism · fiction · womens-fiction · contemporary · magic · love-triangle · friendship · female-mc · literary-fiction -
![The Hunter by Tana French]()
The Hunter by Tana French
It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die.Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace...mystery · fiction · crime · contemporary · thriller · audiobook · literary-fiction · law-enforcement · police-procedural · suspense -
![Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson]()
Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson
Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a series of sudden and inexplicable deaths in a searing sci-fi thriller from the Compton Crook Award–winning author of The Space Between Worlds.Scales is the best at what she She is an enforcer who keeps the peace in Ashtown, a rough, climate-ravaged desert town...romance · sci-fi · fiction · fantasy · dystopia · wlw · lgbtq · poc-author · action-adventure · literary-fiction -
![The Glass House by Graeme Simsion, Anne Buist]()
The Glass House by Graeme Simsion, Anne Buist
Welcome to The Menzies. Trainee psychiatrist Doctor Hannah Wright, a country girl with a chaotic history, thought she had seen it all in the emergency room. But that was nothing compared to the psychiatric ward at Menzies Hospital... -
![Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi]()
Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi
The prize-winning, bestselling author of Peaces and Gingerbread returns with a novel about competitive friendship, the elastic boundaries of storytelling, and the meddling influence of a city called PragueIn Helen Oyeyemi’s joyous new novel, the Czech capital is a living thing—one that can let you in or spit you out...fiction · magical-realism · contemporary · fantasy · literary-fiction · friendship · low-fantasy · book · adult -
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![The Morningside by Téa Obreht]()
The Morningside by Téa Obreht
From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a magical novel of mothers and daughters, displacement and belonging, and myths both old and new.There’s the world you can see. And then there’s the one you can’t. Welcome to the Morningside...fiction · fantasy · literary-fiction · mystery · post-apocalyptic · family · magical-realism · low-fantasy · book · adult -
![The Other Side of Disappearing by Kate Clayborn]()
The Other Side of Disappearing by Kate Clayborn
Accompanied by two documentary podcasters, two sisters drive across the country to unravel the mystery of a notorious con man who ran away with their mother in this timely, moving, modern love story about intimacy and truth-telling in the digital age, from the acclaimed author of Georgie, All Along and Love Lettering...romance · fiction · contemporary · crime · literary-fiction · family · humor · female-mc · book · adult -
![The Inheritance by Joanna Goodman]()
The Inheritance by Joanna Goodman
From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compulsively readable mother-daughter story in which two women who share a difficult past must come to together to claim the future they deserve. Arden Moore enjoyed an affluent life thanks to her husband’s high-paying job...fiction · womens-fiction · drama · contemporary · historical-fiction · family · female-mc · romance · literary-fiction · new-adult -
![The Mars House by Natasha Pulley]()
The Mars House by Natasha Pulley
A compulsively readable queer sci-fi novel about a marriage of convenience between a Mars politician and an Earth refugee.In the wake of an environmental catastrophe, January, once a principal in London's Royal Ballet, has become a refugee in Tharsis, the terraformed colony on Mars...romance · sci-fi · lgbtq · fiction · space · fantasy · mars · dystopia · literary-fiction · colonization -
![Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl González]()
Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl González
1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn’t. By 1998 Anita’s name has been all but forgotten―certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis...fiction · historical-fiction · mystery · literary-fiction · contemporary · audiobook · latinx-mc · poc-mc · poc-author · coming-of-age -
![Memory Piece by Lisa Ko]()
Memory Piece by Lisa Ko
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?In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different...fiction · historical-fiction · sci-fi · contemporary · literary-fiction · poc-author · friendship · audiobook · lgbtq · female-mc -
![The Medicine Woman of Galveston: Sneak Peek by Amanda Skenandore]()
The Medicine Woman of Galveston: Sneak Peek by Amanda Skenandore
Be one of the first to read this sneak preview sample edition!Caught in the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900, a female doctor who’s joined a traveling medicine show to support her disabled son is forced to weather the storm and its aftermath in a town hostile to the troupe’s unconventional ways but desperate for their help...historical-fiction · 20th-century · female-mc · fiction · literary-fiction · medical · historical · book · adult -
![Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories by Mariana Enríquez, Camila Sosa Villada, Mónica Ojeda, Giovanna Rivero]()
Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories by Mariana Enríquez, Camila Sosa Villada, Mónica Ojeda, Giovanna Rivero
A boy explores the abandoned house of a dead fascist…A leaked sex tape pushes a woman to the brink…A sex worker discovers a dark secret among the nuns of the pampas…The mountain fog is not what it seems…Kermit the Frog dreams of murder…In ten chilling stories from an ensemble cast of contemporary Latin American writers, including Mariana Enriquez (tr. Megan McDowell), Camila Sosa Villlada (tr...horror · fiction · anthologies · literary-fiction · contemporary · paranormal · latinx-mc · spooky · poc-mc · gothic -
![All the World Beside by Garrard Conley]()
All the World Beside by Garrard Conley
An electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New EnglandCana, a utopian vision of 18th-century Puritan New England. To the outside world, Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield and his family stand as godly pillars of their small-town community, drawing Christians from across the New World into their fold...romance · historical-fiction · lgbtq · fiction · historical · literary-fiction · audiobook · mlm · social-commentary · religion -
![The Lost Book of Bonn by Brianna Labuskes]()
The Lost Book of Bonn by Brianna Labuskes
For fans of The Rose Code and The Librarian Spy comes another literary themed historical novel from the author of The Librarian of Burned Books. Germany, 1946: Emmy Clarke is a librarian not a soldier. But that doesn’t stop the Library of Congress from sending her overseas to Germany to help the Monuments Men retrieve and catalog precious literature that was plundered by the Nazis...historical-fiction · fiction · ww2 · historical · war · lgbtq · new-adult · 20th-century · female-mc · literary-fiction -
![Where the Heart Should Be by Sarah Crossan]()
Where the Heart Should Be by Sarah Crossan
It is 1846 and Ireland is starving.The potatoes are black, people are dying and in the midst of it all Nell must do everything she can to keep her family together, and everyone she loves alive. Even if it means giving up her every want, dream and desire...romance · historical-fiction · young-adult · historical · fiction · audiobook · family · coming-of-age · forbidden-love · high-school -
![Leave No Trace by Jo Callaghan]()
Leave No Trace by Jo Callaghan
From the bestselling author of In the Blink of an Eye comes a gripping thriller that pits algorithms versus experience, logic versus instinct, and one undetectable killer versus two extraordinary detectives...crime · mystery · fiction · audiobook · sci-fi · law-enforcement · ai · suspense · police-procedural · serial-killers -
![The Split by S.E. Lynes]()
The Split by S.E. Lynes
The end of our marriage was only the beginning… Last night, we celebrated our anniversary. Over candlelight, we talked about the children, our work, and I was so happy, and felt so loved. But the next morning, when I check my phone, there is a message. From a friend. And a string of photos appear of my husband, Will, with another woman: walking along the street holding hands...fiction · audiobook · thriller · suspense · family · epic · psychological · literary-fiction · crime · murder -
![The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill]()
The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill
There's nothing easier to dismiss than a conspiracy theory—until it turns out to be true When Theodosia Benton abandons her career path as an attorney and shows up on her brother's doorstep with two suitcases and an unfinished novel, she expects to face a few challenges...mystery · fiction · suspense · contemporary · crime · murder · killer · family · conspiracies · audiobook -
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![The Stars Turned Inside Out by Nova Jacobs]()
The Stars Turned Inside Out by Nova Jacobs
The discovery of a suspicious death at a famous Swiss physics laboratory sparks a mystery that merges science, philosophy, and the high-stakes race to unlock the fundamental nature of our universe in this thrilling new novel from the Edgar Award–nominated author of the “hugely entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) The Last Equation of Isaac Severy...mystery · fiction · audiobook · sci-fi · crime · contemporary · sad · cozy · murder · literary-fiction -
![The War Orphan by Anna Stuart]()
The War Orphan by Anna Stuart
1945, I stumble out of the gates, tightly grasping the hands of two smaller children. Hunger swirls in my stomach and the barren landscape swims before my eyes. I can barely believe it. We’re free. We survived. But what happens now…Sixteen-year-old Tasha Ancel turns to take one last look at the imposing place that stole her freedom and her childhood...historical-fiction · ww2 · historical · fiction · religion · 20th-century · friendship · female-mc · epic · romance -
![A Stranger in the Family by Jane Casey]()
A Stranger in the Family by Jane Casey
The gripping new thriller featuring DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent from the Top Ten Sunday Times bestselling authorEvery mother's worst nightmare . . .When nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall vanished from her bed one summer night, her disappearance tore her family apart.Now, sixteen years later, her mother Helena is found dead, her husband by her side...romance · mystery · crime · law-enforcement · fiction · suspense · contemporary · audiobook · police-procedural · literary-fiction -
![The Swan's Nest by Laura McNeal]()
The Swan's Nest by Laura McNeal
A tender and engrossing historical novel about the unlikely love affair between two great 19th-century poets, Robert Browning and Elizabeth BarrettOn a bleak January day in 1845, a poet who had been confined to her room for four years by recurrent illness received a letter from a writer she secretly idolized but had never seen...historical-fiction · fiction · historical · 21st-century · literary-fiction · drama · industrial-era · victorian · family · romance -
![Never Been Better by Leanne Toshiko Simpson]()
Never Been Better by Leanne Toshiko Simpson
A hilariously offbeat and tender comedy about one bipolar woman’s messy search for love at a seaside wedding where no one can stay afloat.Is she falling in love, or falling apart?Dee, Misa, and Matt were the "three musketeers" of the psych ward. A year after discharge, Dee is eager to convince everyone that she’s finally turning things around...romance · fiction · mental-illness · contemporary · audiobook · season-summer · lgbtq · humor · poc-author · literary-fiction -
![James by Percival Everett]()
James by Percival Everett
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of viewWhen the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan...north-america · usa · mississippi · historical-fiction · fiction · retellings · literary-fiction · historical · classics · slavery -
![Like Happiness by Ursula Villarreal-Moura]()
Like Happiness by Ursula Villarreal-Moura
A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a young woman’s destructive relationship with a legendary writer.It’s 2015, and Tatum Vega feels that her life is finally falling into place. Living in sunny Chile with her partner, Vera, she spends her days surrounded by art at the museum where she works...south-america · chile · fiction · literary-fiction · contemporary · lgbtq · audiobook · wlw · coming-of-age · latinx-mc -
![Winter's Gamble by Mary Stone]()
Winter's Gamble by Mary Stone
Swipe right for love. Swipe left for death.In the aftermath of another harrowing case, FBI agent turned private investigator Winter Black is battling personal demons: guilt, her grandmother’s failing health, a strained alliance with a key detective, and the eerie knowledge that someone has been spying on her family... -
![Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky]()
Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . .On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It’s the greatest discovery in humanity’s spacefaring history – yet who were its builders and where did they go?Professor Arton Daghdev had always wanted to study alien life up close. Then his wishes become a reality in the worst way...sci-fi · fiction · audiobook · aliens · space-opera · space · dystopia · first-contact · horror · revolution -
![Stone Angels by Helena Rho]()
Stone Angels by Helena Rho
In this "riveting [and] unforgettable" novel, a forty-year-old woman journeys to her cultural homeland—and uncovers a harrowing secret that makes her rethink everything she thought she knew about her mother (Jimin Han, author of The Apology). Angelina Lee feels like she doesn’t belong...historical-fiction · fiction · literary-fiction · contemporary · audiobook · ww2 · realistic · family · colonization · mystery -
![Release Me by J.L. Seegars]()
Release Me by J.L. Seegars
NadiaI expect nothing.From life, from God, from men.I don’t hope or want or pray. Those are luxuries I can’t afford when I’m doing the desperate math of survival while walking the tight rope of life on the run in a strange city. New Haven wasn’t supposed to be a fresh start. That would be asking too much from a life that took my parents from me and left me vulnerable to monsters...romance · contemporary · workplace · friends-to-lovers · steamy · billionaire · female-mc · alpha-mc · stalking · obsession -
![The Last Verse: A Novel by Caroline Frost]()
The Last Verse: A Novel by Caroline Frost
From the award-winning author of Shadows of Pecan Hollow comes The Last Verse , a gripping novel set in the country music world of 1970s Nashville about a struggling musician who writes a hit song that both promises her long-sought-after fame and implicates her in a heinous crime...historical-fiction · fiction · mystery · literary-fiction · suspense · female-mc · thriller · coming-of-age · crime · family -
![Letters to a Biographer by Joyce Carol Oates]()
Letters to a Biographer by Joyce Carol Oates
This rich compilation of Joyce Carol Oates’s letters across four decades displays her warmth and generosity, her droll and sometimes wicked sense of humor, her phenomenal energy, and most of all, her mastery of the lost art of letter writing... -
![The Woman in the Sable Coat by Elizabeth Brooks]()
The Woman in the Sable Coat by Elizabeth Brooks
At the height of the Second World War in England, twenty-two year old Nina Woodrow joins the British Royal Air Force and rebels against her careful upbringing by embarking on an illicit affair with an officer. She risks losing everything for Guy Nicholson: her comfortable home, her childhood friends, and, especially, the love of her father, an enigmatic widower... -
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![To Forge Her Fate by Kasey Stockton]()
To Forge Her Fate by Kasey Stockton
Two worlds. Two hearts. Can they ever meld together as one?Eliza Rose: accomplished in pianoforte, riding, drawing, three languages, and the art of flirtation using only a fan.Jacob Ridley: skilled blacksmith, honest tradesman, appreciates a hot meal, and not susceptible to any lady’s charm.Until Eliza needs help, and Jacob cannot turn her away. Now she has him wrapped around her dainty finger... -
![His Demands by K.C. Crowne]()
His Demands by K.C. Crowne
The silver fox billionaire is used to getting anything he wants...And now, he wants to make me his darling little wife.Working as Ivan Stepanov's assistant is a literal gig from hell.After a day of catering to his every demand I text my friend in haste:'I HATE my boss but find him so freakin HOT!"I arrive home with my thoughts stuck on the gorgeous older man ruining my life... -
![Worry by Alexandra Tanner]()
Worry by Alexandra Tanner
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings-turned-roommates navigating an absurd world about to suffer great change—a Seinfeldian novel of existentialism and sisterhood...fiction · contemporary · literary-fiction · humor · mental-illness · audiobook · family · lgbtq · season-spring · satire -
![Free Therapy by Rebecca Ivory]()
Free Therapy by Rebecca Ivory
A debut collection that heralds the arrival of a fresh and exciting new literary voiceFree Therapy is about people who know what they need to do in order to be happy, but can't quite bring themselves to do it; people who are driven by desires that don't quite match with what they're looking for in life; people who long to connect with others, but can't seem to allow themselves to... -
![Lead Us Not by Abbey Lay]()
Lead Us Not by Abbey Lay
‘When we spoke, I never knew what Olive would reveal to me. There were nights where she would lie next to me and pour herself out into the darkness, and others where it seemed she was hardly there at all.’Millie is in her final year at a Catholic girls’ school, subdued by the conformity of her life and her parents’ quiet pain...romance · wlw · fiction · lgbtq · contemporary · coming-of-age · literary-fiction · audiobook · lesbian-mc · female-mc -
![Dirt Poor Islanders by Winnie Dunn]()
Dirt Poor Islanders by Winnie Dunn
Dirt Poor Islanders is a potent, mesmerising novel that opens our eyes to the brutal fractures navigated when growing up between two cultures and the importance of understanding all the many pieces of yourself.'Islanders must do everything together. We painted ngatu together. We crossed the ocean together. We settled on isles together. We took up Christianity together...fiction · contemporary · literary-fiction · audiobook · family · coming-of-age · indigenous-mc · female-author · poc-author · poc-mc -
![Family Reservations by Liza Palmer]()
Family Reservations by Liza Palmer
A powerful mother. Three daughters. And a fast-paced, cutthroat culinary legacy up for grabs in a darkly witty novel about a family on the edge by the bestselling author of The Nobodies and The F Word.Maren Winter is a world-renowned restaurateur who has built an empire. No one heeds the whispers of her retirement more closely than her three daughters, all in service to their mother’s legacy...fiction · womens-fiction · family · contemporary · culinary · drama · audiobook · literary-fiction · female-mc · humor
