March—and spring right along with it—is just around the corner! In our professional opinion, there's no better way to spring into the season than waiting for an exciting new book to hit the shelves. Keep an eye out for these upcoming titles to find your perfect springtime read.
9 New Books to Look Out for in March 2025
Whether you prefer listening to audiobooks or are searching for a new book club pick for your posse, these new books should be on your radar for March:
1. Sucker Punch by Scaachi Koul
When Koul began to write her second memoir, the long-awaited Sucker Punch (out March 4th), she expected to be writing essays about her elaborate wedding, enjoying domesticity with her spouse, and continuing the tense arguments with her parents. But COVID-19 threw a wrench in the plan, and as her marriage fell apart, her job let her go, and her mother received a cancer diagnosis, the book started to take a turn. This collection of essays tackles what happens when everything you thought to be true about the world turns out to be wrong—and it’s bound to become a book we love!
2. Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave by Elle Cosimano
If there's anything you need to know about us, it's that we love, love, love the cozy mystery genre, especially when it comes to this series. In Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave, the last thing Finlay and Vero want is to get involved in yet another murder case. But when a dead body is discovered in their elderly neighbor, Mrs. Haggerty's backyard, they have no choice but to take her in and start an investigation—especially when Finlay's ex-husband, Steven, is brought into it. The highly anticipated installment in this book series we love comes out on March 4th.
3. Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
Beth and her husband Frank are happily married—as long as the past stays buried. But when Beth's brother-in-law kills a dog going after his sheep, it's revealed the pup belonged to none other than Gabriel Wolfe, the man who broke her heart as a teenager. He's returned to the village with his young son, who reminds Beth of her own child, who died in a tragic accident. As she's pulled back into Gabriel's life and tensions rise, she is forced to make an impossible choice. Broken Country, out March 4th, is a thrilling new book with love triangles, twists, turns, and simmering passion.
4. Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
When a mysterious woman named Rowan washes ashore at the world's largest seed bank, Shearwater, a tiny island off Antarctica, Dominic Salt and his three children must nurse her back to health. The more comfortable she gets, the more she imagines a future with them. But Rowan isn't telling the whole truth about why she traveled to Shearwater—and Dominic is keeping secrets of his own. As storms begin to brew in the new book, Wild Dark Shore, out March 4th, they must decide if they can trust each other enough to protect the seeds in their care before it's too late.
5. All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman
Single, broke, and reeling after the humiliating end to her girl band career, Florence Grimes has only one reason to leave her bed each day—Dylan, her ten-year-old son. But when the heir to a frozen food empire and her son's bully, Alfie Risby, goes missing, Dylan becomes suspect number one. In the new book, All the Other Mothers Hate Me, out March 11th, Florence sets out to find Alfie and clear her son's name—even if she's not so sure he's as innocent as she'd hoped.
6. Hot Air by Marcy Dermansky
Everything in Joannie's life unravels when her childhood crush Jonathan, a summer camp fling turned famous billionaire, crashes his hot-air balloon into her partner Johnny's swimming pool. Soon, she finds herself on a romping, lust-filled weekend with Johnny, Jonathan, his beautiful wife Julia, and their much younger assistant, Vivian, where no one can tell just who wants who. Hot Air, out March 18th, is a perfectly unhinged story of marriage, sex, and money for our billionaire-riddled world.
7. O Sinners! by Nicole Cuffy
Come March 18th, everyone will be able to read one of the most anticipated new books of the season, Oh Sinners! When Faruq Zaidi, a young journalist grieving the recent death of his devout Muslim father, takes the opportunity to join a cult in the California redwoods called "the nameless," he is shepherded by a Vietnam War vet named Odo. Though skeptical at first, he finds himself extending his stay, diving into the inner workings of the cult, getting closer to Odo, and unraveling at the seams when his past memories come back to haunt him. It's bound to be a book we love!
8. Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
In Sunrise on the Reaping, a Hunger Games novel, out March 18th, it's the 50th annual Hunger Games, and in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes than usual will be entered from each district. In District 12, all Haymitch Abernathy cares about is making it through the reaping and staying safe with the girl he loves. But when his name gets called with three others and his world is turned upside down, he must find the will to fight his way out of the arena and make it out alive. Suzanne Collins writes countless YA books we love—and this is the latest of the bunch!
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9. Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
In 2019, John Green, author of plenty of fiction books we love, became fast friends with a young tuberculosis patient named Henry Reider at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. The more he learned, the more he became a strong advocate for increased treatment access, global healthcare reform, and wider awareness of this deadly infectious disease. Green tells Henry's story alongside scientific and social histories addressing how tuberculosis has affected our lives, as well as what we can do about it in Everything is Tuberculosis, out March 18th.
Ways to Enjoy New Books at Novel This March
As we get closer to the release dates, surround yourself with the books we love across different genres and discover March's new books for yourself. Find a way that works for you:
- Sign up for Libro.fm to listen to audiobooks while supporting your local bookstores.
- Preorder a copy of the new book to guarantee you get it on release day!
- Pick up a book we love and join us at Silent Book Club for a bit of community fun.
It's time to spring clean your bookshelf—to make room for new books, that is. Stop by the newest Rochester, MI, bookstore, Novel, to grab the latest releases as soon as they come out. We can't wait to see you sort through all the books we love to find your new favorites!
