The best new books to read in March 2024 feature new books by bestselling and award-winning authors including contemporary, literary, and reimagined fiction, crime novels, essay collections, and celebrity and must-read memoirs. Spring into a great new book this March with these 10 new highly anticipated March books. Available to purchase now or preorder, these are the most anticipated books of March 2024.

The Best New Books To Read In March 2024

1. Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez

Release Date: March 5

New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death.

2. Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman

Release Date: March 5

From the best-selling author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. comes a funny, eye-opening tale of work in contemporary America.

3. The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir by RuPaul

Release Date: March 5

From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date—a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-acceptance. A profound introspection of his life, relationships, and identity, The House of Hidden Meanings is a self-portrait of the legendary icon on the road to global fame and changing the way the world thinks about drag.

4. The Hunter by Tana French

Release Date: March 5

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Searcher and “one of the greatest crime novelists writing today” (Vox), a spellbinding new novel set in the Irish countryside.

5. Until August by Gabriel García Márquez

Release Date: March 12

The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize–winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

6. No Judgement: Essays by Lauren Oyler

Release Date: March 19

From the national bestselling novelist and essayist, a groundbreaking collection of brand-new pieces about the role of cultural criticism in our ever-changing world.

7. James by Percival Everett

Release Date: March 19

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view • From the “literary icon” (Oprah Daily) and Pulitzer Prize Finalist whose novel Erasure is the basis for Cord Jefferson’s critically acclaimed film American Fiction.

8. One Way Back: A Memoir by Christine Blasey Ford

Release Date: March 19

The compelling true story behind the testimony that awed the nation.

9. Memory Piece by Lisa Ko

Release Date: March 19

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?

10. Rabbit Heart: A Mother’s Murder, A Daughter’s Story by Kristine S. Ervin

Release Date: March 26

For readers of My Dark Places and The Fact of a Body, a beautiful, brutal memoir documenting one woman’s search for identity alongside her family’s decades-long quest to identify the two men who abducted—and murdered—her mother.

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