Notable New Releases: March 2015
According to the calendar, we’re one step closer to spring here in the northern hemisphere. (I’ll believe it when I see it.) In the meantime, March is bringing us some intriguing new books. There are lots of new literary novels, including Hanya Yanagihara’s second novel (A Little Life) and work from Kazou Ishiguro (The Buried Giant) and Michele Young-Stone (Above Us Only Sky). There’s also historical fiction from Jennifer Chiaverini (Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule), Sara Gruen (At the Water’s Edge), and Jan Moran (Scent of Triumph), among others. In YA, there’s been much buzz around David Arnold’s Mosquitoland (pun just a really bad, happy accident) and Tommy Wallach’s We All Looked Up. Meanwhile in romance there are new historicals from Donna Thorland (Mistress Firebrand) and Eloisa James (Four Nights with the Duke). Additionally, Rhys Bowen has a new Molly Murphy mystery (The Edge of Dreams) and there’s also new work from M.J. Rose (The Witch of Painted Sorrows), Debbie Macomber (Last One Home), Joanne DeMaio (The Denim Blue Sea), Erik Larson (Dead Wake), and Gretchen Rubin (Better Than Before), among many others. Happy reading!
Decoy: A Novella by Allan Gurganus (Liveright Publishing, 3/2)
Lady of the Eternal City (The Empress of Rome #4) by Kate Quinn (Berkley, 3/3)
The Buried Giant by Kazou Ishiguro (Knopf, 3/3)
Above Us Only Sky by Michele Young-Stone (Simon & Schuster, 3/3)
The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson (Harper, 3/3)
Rebel Queen by Michelle Moran (Touchstone, 3/3)
Young Skins: Stories by Colin Barrett (Grove Press, 3/3)
Sisters of Shiloh by Kathy & Becky Hepinstall (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 3/3)
The Denim Blue Sea by Joanne DeMaio (Joanne DeMaio, 3/3)
Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule by Jennifer Chiaverini (Dutton, 3/3)
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (Doubleday, 3/10)
The Discreet Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 3/10)
The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James (Knopf, 3/10)
Delicious Foods by James Hannaham (Little, Brown, 3/17)Mademoiselle Chanel by C.W. Gortner (William Morrow, 3/17)
Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum (Random House, 3/17)
The Last Flight of Poxl West by Daniel Torday (St. Martin’s Press, 3/17)
The Tapestry (Joanna Stafford #3) by Nancy Bilyeau (Touchstone, 3/24)
The Wednesday Group by Sylvia True (St. Martin’s Griffin, 3/24)
A Reunion of Ghosts by Judith Claire Mitchell (Harper, 3/24)
The Precious One by Marisa de los Santos (William Morrow, 3/24)
The Dog Who Saved Me by Susan Wilson (St. Martin’s Press, 3/24)
The Cavendon Women by Barbara Taylor Bradford (St. Martin’s Press, 3/24)
At the Water’s Edge by Sara Gruen (Spiegel & Grau, 3/31)
The Day We Met by Rowan Coleman (Ballantine Books, 3/31)
Scent of Triumph by Jan Moran (St. Martin’s Griffin, 3/31)
The Dead Key by D.M. Pulley (Thomas & Mercer, 3/1)
The One That Got Away by Simon Wood (Thomas & Mercer, 3/1)
Assault and Pepper (A Spice Shop Mystery #1) by Leslie Budewitz (Berkley, 3/3)
The Edge of Dreams (Molly Murphy Mysteries #14) by Rhys Bowen (Minotaur, 3/3)
The Assassin (Isaac Bell #8) by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 3/3)
Dark Rooms by Lili Anolik (William Morrow, 3/3)
Wicked Charms (Lizzy & Diesel #3) by Janet Evanovich and Phoef Sutton (Bantam, 3/10)
Endangered (Joe Pickett #15) by C.J. Box (Putnam, 3/10)
Cold Betrayal (Ali Reynolds #10) by J.A. Jance (Touchstone, 3/10)NYPD Red 3 by James Patterson & Marshall Karp (Little, Brown, 3/16)
A Dangerous Place (Maisie Dobbs #11) by Jacqueline Winspear (Harper, 3/17)
The Pocket Wife by Susan H. Crawford (William Morrow, 3/17)
World Gone By (Coughlin #3) by Dennis Lehane (William Morrow, 3/19)
Someone Is Watching by Joy Fielding (Ballantine Books, 3/24)
The Fifth Heart by Dan Simmons (Little, Brown, 3/24)
The World Before Us by Aislinn Hunter (Hogarth, 3/31)
The Patriot Threat (Cotton Malone #10) by Steve Berry (Minotaur Books, 3/31)
Normal by Graeme Cameron (Mira, 3/31)
Mosquitoland by David Arnold (Viking Children’s, 3/3)
Bone Gap by Laura Ruby (Balzer Bray, 3/3)
The Forgotten Sisters (Princess Academy #3) by Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury USA, 3/3)
The Winner’s Crime (The Winner’s Trilogy #2) by Marie Rutkoski (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 3/3)
The Storyspinner (The Keepers’ Chronicles #1) by Becky Wallace (Margaret K. McElderry, 3/3)
Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver (HarperCollins, 3/10)
The Orphan Queen (The Orphan Queen #1) by Jodi Meadows (Katherine Tegen Books, 3/10)
Everything That Makes You by Moriah McStay (Katherine Tegen Books, 3/17)
Duplicity by N.K. Traver (Thomas Dunne Books, 3/17)
Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee (G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR, 3/17)
Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story by David Levithan (Dutton Juvenile, 3/17)The Wrong Side of Right by Jenn Marie Thorne (Dial, 3/17)
Half Wild (Half Bad Trilogy #2) by Sally Green (Viking Juvenile, 3/24)
Written in the Stars by Aisha Saeed (Nancy Paulsen Books, 3/24)
We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach (S&S BYR, 3/24)
Liars, Inc. by Paula Stokes (HarperTeen, 3/24)
Finding Mr. Brightside by Jay Clark (Henry Holt BYR, 3/24)
The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma (Algonquin Young Readers, 3/24)
The Start of Me and You by Emery Lord (Bloomsbury, 3/31)
The Wicked Will Rise (Dorothy Must Die #2) by Danielle Paige (HarperCollins, 3/31)
Instinct (Chronicles of Nick #6) by Sherrilyn Kenyon (St. Martin’s Griffin, 3/31)
The Devil’s Detective by Simon Kurt Unsworth (Doubleday, 3/3)
Dark Debt (Chicagoland Vampires #11) by Chloe Neill (NAL, 3/3)
Dead Heat (Alpha & Omega #4) by Patricia Briggs (Ace, 3/3)
Vision in Silver (The Others #3) by Anne Bishop (Penguin, 3/3)
Of Silk and Steam (London Steampunk #5) by Bec McMaster (Sourcebooks Casablanca, 3/3)
Prudence (The Custard Protocol #1) by Gail Carriger (Orbit, 3/17)
A Blink of the Screen: Collected Short Fiction by Terry Pratchett (Doubleday, 3/17)The Witch of Painted Sorrows by M.J. Rose (Atria Books, 3/17)
Harrison Squared by Daryl Gregory (Tor, 3/24)
The Lost Boys Symphony by Mark Andrew Ferguson (Little, Brown, 3/24)
The Skull Throne (Demon Cycle #4) by Peter V. Brett (Del Rey, 3/31)
The Voyage of the Basilisk (Memoir by Lady Trent #3) by Marie Brennan (Tor, 3/31)
Slow Burn (Driven #5) by K. Bromberg (Signet, 3/3)
His to Take (Wicked Lovers #9) by Shayla Black (Berkley Heat, 3/3)
Mistress Firebrand by Donna Thorland (NAL, 3/3)
Stealing Rose (The Fowler Sisters #2) by Monica Murphy (Bantam, 3/3)
The Love of My Life by Louise Douglas (Bookouture, 3/6)
Rock Hard (Rock Kiss #2) by Nailini Singh (Nalini Singh, 3/10)
Last One Home by Debbie Macomber (Ballantine Books, 3/10)
Soaring (Magdalene #2) by Kristen Ashley (Kristen Ashley, 3/16)Fisher’s Light by Tara Sivec (Tara Sivec, 3/24)
Four Nights with the Duke (Desperate Duchessess #8) by Eloisa James (Avon, 3/31)
The Shadows (Black Dagger Brotherhood #13) by J.R. Ward (NAL, 3/31)
The Closer You Come (The Original Heartbreakers #1) by Gena Showalter (HQN, 3/31)
This Heart of Mine (Whiskey Creek #8) by Brenda Novak (Mira, 3/31)
Return to Me (Covington Cove #1) by Kelly Moran (Berkley, 3/3)
Easy Love (Boudreaux #1) by Kristen Proby (Ampersand Publishing, 3/3)
Becoming Rain (Burying Water #2) by K.A. Tucker (Atria Books, 3/3)
Confess by Colleen Hoover (Atria Books, 3/10)
Sustain by Tijan (Tijan, 3/2)
Pocketful of Sand by M. Leighton (M. Leighton, 3/15)
Chase Me (Broke and Beautiful #1) by Tessa Bailey (Avon, 3/17)
Awakening You (Unraveling You #3) by Jessica Sorensen (Jessica Sorensen, 3/24)Manwhore (Manwhore #1) by Katy Evans (Gallery Books, 3/24)
Sweet Hope (Sweet Home #4) by Tillie Cole (Tillie Cole, 3/29)
A Perfect Ten (Forbidden Men #5) by Linda Kage (Linda Kage, 3/30)
Deep (Stage Dive #4) by Kylie Scott (St. Martin’s Griffin, 3/31)
Fall with Me (Wait for You #4) by Jennifer L. Armentrout (Avon, 3/31)
Where Sea Meets Sky by Karina Halle (Atria Books, 3/31)
Life from Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness by Sasha Martin (National Geographic, 3/3)
Do Your Om Thing by Rebecca Pacheco (HarperWave, 3/3)
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald (Grove Press, 3/3)
Riding Home: The Power of Horses to Heal by Tim Hayes (St. Martin’s Press, 3/3)
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson (Crown, 3/10)
American Ghost… by Hannah Nordhaus (Harper, 3/10)
If You Find This Letter… by Hannah Brencher (Howard Books, 3/10)Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter by Nina MacLaughlin (W.W. Norton & Company, 3/16)
The Battle of Versailles… by Robin Givhan (Flatiron Books, 3/17)
The Wilderness of Ruin… by Roseanne Montillo (William Morrow, 3/17)
Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives by Gretchen Rubin (Crown, 3/17)
The Natty Professor… by Tim Gunn (Gallery Books, 3/24)
Notable New Releases is a monthly series highlighting a hand-picked selection of new books in American publishing. My goal is to provide a place for readers to get a glimpse at some of the new titles available, to keep up with their most anticipated books of the year and hopefully find a new read (or two or three) along the way. Notable New Releases is a one-woman show and publication dates are always subject to change. If there’s a book coming out in future months that you’d like to see included in the series, recommendations are always welcome!
