New Fiction Roundup, March 2025

Welcome to the busy spring publishing season! March has something for most everyone, so read on to discover books from favorite or new-to-you authors.

3/4: Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
During the Covid pandemic, four African women in the United States find themselves at emotional, professional, and personal crossroads. (general fiction)

3/4: The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
In a future where even dreams are monitored, Sara is held in a detention center after being informed that her dreams indicate she will harm her husband. As minor infractions extend her stay – and that of the other women being held – a new resident shakes everything up. (general fiction)

3/4: The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji
In Iran, everyone knew the Valiats were an important family. Their reputation has not transferred to the Unites States. When a vacation in Aspen illuminates the disparity in their perception vs. reality, matriarch Elizabeth, her daughters and granddaughters endeavor to reestablish their family story. (general fiction)

3/4: Red Dog Farm by Nathaniel Ian Miller
A young man faces a crossroads: stay on the Icelandic farm where he was raised, working alongside his father; or go to university and pursue a connection with a fellow student. (general fiction)

3/4: The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
Sister Esther and Ysabel maintain a pact held for generations by their family, singing to a pair of trees that guard the portal to the faerie world. But love can rend even the bonds of family and put the whole community in jeopardy. By the co-author of This Is How You Lose the Time War. (fantasy)

3/4: The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses
In a post-apocalyptic climate collapse future, a woman lives in a cloistered convent where rigid hierarchy rules. A new arrival causes her to question what came before, what is happening now, and the price she’s willing to pay for a future. By the author of Tender is the Flesh. (horror)

3/4: Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
The Salt family are the last inhabitants of tiny Shearwater island off the coast of Antarctica, and also the stewards of a seed bank. When a stranger washes up on their shore, they might be the answer to the problems each are facing, if they can get past the secrets each are keeping. (general fiction)

3/4: Woodworking by Emily St. James
In 2016 South Dakota, a closeted trans teacher find support and courage when an openly trans student transfers into the district. (general fiction)

3/11: 33 Place Brugmann by Alice Austen
At the beginning of World War II, the residents of an apartment building in Brussels have their lives, relationships, and senses of self turned upside down. (historical fiction)

3/11: The Antidote by Karen Russell
Five characters in 1935 small town Nebraska grapple with the aftermath of a ravaging dust storm as well as the violent history and secrets underpinning their community. (historical fiction) Don’t miss Karen Russell at the Central Library on March 12.

3/11: Goddess Complex by Sanjena Sathian
A year after she left her husband – and their fraught discussions about children – Sanjana Satyananda just wants to finalize the divorce and move on. But her husband is missing, and women are mistaking her for a pregnancy and fertility expert, giving her a glimpse of the path not taken. (general fiction)

3/11: Luminous by Silvia Park
In a future, unified Korea, three siblings (two humans and a robot) grapple with a murder investigation that illuminates secrets from their childhood. (science fiction)

3/11: Stag Dance by Torrey Peters
In this collection of a novel accompanied by three short stories, Peters tackles gender, trans identity, and community in settings as varied as a lumberjack camp, Quaker boarding school, and Las Vegas. By the author of Detransition, Baby. ( general fiction)Don’t miss Torrey Peters at Town Hall on March 19.

3/18: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
An academic finds a journal kept in 1912 by her ancestor, pastor Arthur Beaucarne, who transcribed the oral history of Good Stab, a resident of the Blackfeet Nation and vampire who stalks the reservation looking for justice. (horror)

3/18: Everybody Says It’s Everything by Xhenet Aliu
In 1990s Connecticut, two adopted Albanian twins grow up and apart. As adults they come back together just as the war in Kosovo is ramping up, prompting them to question their past and also their paths forward. (general fiction)

3/18: Hot Air by Marcy Dermansky
A billionaire’s hot-air balloon crash thrusts two couples and assorted hangers-on into a wild weekend of desire, sex, money and revenge. (general fiction)

3/18: Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa, translated by Polly Barton
A mischievous woman with physical disabilities lives in a care home outside Tokyo. When Shaka Izawa posts online offering money for a sperm donor, and a new nurse accepts, she finds the area where personal autonomy collides with societal restrictions. (general fiction)

3/18: O Sinners! by Nicole Cuffy
A young journalist imbeds himself in a cult run by a Vietnam War vet in this novel that weaves together the story of the journalist, the wartime experiences of the cult leader, and a documentary of the cult’s clash with a fundamentalist church. (general fiction)

3/18: The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue
On a train headed to Paris’s Montparnasse train station in 1895 the elite and the working class mingle, even as an anarchist prepares to place a bomb. Based on a true story. (historical fiction)

3/18: Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Nobel Prize-winner Gurnah presents a coming-of-age tale three young people in Tanzania as they chase opportunities, grapple with setbacks, and forge relationships. (general fiction)

3/25: The Reluctant Sheriff by Chris Offutt
Former Army CID officer Mick Hardin is happily retired, but returns to his hometown to step in as interim sheriff while his sister recovers from a gunshot wound. When a string of murders happen in the small town, Mick must navigate both his past and the politicking of interested parties. (mystery)

3/25: Sister Europe by Nell Zink
A mostly crew descends on a literary awards dinner in Berlin for a madcap evening that leads to personal reflection and transformation. (general fiction)

3/25: Twist by Colum McCann
An Irish journalist writing a story about the underwater fiber optic cables that carry the world’s information joins up with an engineer responsible for repairing damaged cables. But as they head deep into the ocean, they grapple with questions both concrete and existential. (general fiction)

3/25: When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi
When the moon suddenly turns into cheese, it throws humanity into an uproar as they question their faith, science, and their fundamental belief that anything could be constant. (science fiction)

~ posted by Andrea G.

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