Great New Titles | March 2025 Starred Reviews

Great reads and outstanding titles across fiction, nonfiction, and professional media.

 

 

 

 

 

 

MYSTERY & SUSPENSE

Dukess, Karen. Welcome to Murder Week. Gallery/Scout.

Lippman, Laura. Murder Takes a Vacation. Morrow.

SF/FANTASY

Jackson, Stacy Nathaniel. The Ephemera Collector. Liveright: Norton.

Kelley, Venessa Vida. When the Tides Held the Moon. Erewhon.

Langmead, Oliver K. & Aliya Whiteley. City of All Seasons. Titan.

Moore, Christopher. Anima Rising. Morrow.

Onyebuchi, Tochi. Harmattan Season. Tor.

Oyebanji, Adam. Esperance. DAW.

Rozakis, Caitlin. The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association. Titan.

Schwab, V.E. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil. Tor.

Yang, Neon. Brighter Than Scale, Swifter Than Flame. Tor.com.

ROMANCE

Blake, Ashley Herring. Dream On, Ramona Riley. Berkley.

Henry, Emily. Great Big Beautiful Life. Berkley.

Michelle, Holly. Last Night Was Fun. Avon.

Slaughter, Jodie. Ready To Score. St. Martin’s Griffin.

Solomon, Rachel Lynn. What Happens in Amsterdam. Berkley.

FICTION

Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale. Ecco: HarperCollins.

Bostwick, Marie. The Book Club for Troublesome Women. Harper Muse.

Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Union Square & Co.

Haigh, Jennifer. Rabbit Moon. Little, Brown.

Millás, Juan José. Only Smoke. Bellevue Literary.

Monroe, Mary Alice. Where the Rivers Merge. Morrow.

CHRISTIAN FICTION

Gohlke, Cathy. This Promised Land. Tyndale House.

HORROR

Keisling, Todd.  The Sundowner’s Dance . Shortwave Media.

ARTS & HUMANITIES

Muller, Eddie. Dark City Dames: The Women Who Defined Film Noir (Revised and Expanded Edition). Running Pr.

Slater, Thomas J. June Mathis: The Rise and Fall of a Silent Film Visionary. Univ. Pr. of Kentucky.

Stanfield, Peter. The Yardbirds: The Most Blueswailing Futuristic Way-Out Heavy Beat Sound. Reaktion.

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Borger, Julian. I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts That Helped Them Escape the Holocaust. Other Pr.

Greene, A. Wilson. A Campaign of Giants—The Battle for Petersburg, Vol. 2: From the Crater’s Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill. Univ. of North Carolina.

Luo, Michael. Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America. Doubleday.

Marten, James. The Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War: The Biography of a Regiment. Univ. of North Carolina.

Nguyen, Viet Thanh. To Save and To Destroy: Writing as an Other. Belknap.

The Second Manassas Campaign. (Military Campaigns of the Civil War). ed. by Caroline E. Janney & Kathryn J. Shively. Univ. of North Carolina.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Kelly, Belinda & Venise Cunningham. Drink Your Garden: Recipes, Stories and Tips from the Simple Goodness Cocktail Farm. Norton.

Meathead. The Meathead Method: A BBQ Hall of Famer’s Secrets and Science on BBQ, Grilling, and Outdoor Cooking with 114 Recipes. Harvest.

Vara, Vauhini. Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age. Pantheon.

REFERENCE

Shaw, Marie Keen. Cataloging Library Resources: An Introduction. 2nd ed. Rowman & Littlefield.

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