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Top Picks: March 2025 Book Releases You Won’t Want to Miss

Ready to find your next favorite read? March 2025 delivers a stellar lineup of highly anticipated books spanning memoirs, literary fiction, self-help, historical dramas, pulse-pounding thrillers, and immersive sagas. Whether you're looking for a thought-provoking novel, an unputdownable mystery, or an epic story that lingers long after the final page, there’s something here for you.


This month, I’m diving into some of the most talked-about new releases, sharing what I’ve read, what’s on my must-read list, and which books are making waves in the literary world.



For The Writers: Top Picks: March 2025 Book Releases You Won’t Want to Miss
As always, I spotlight the hottest new titles, offering honest insights on what’s worth your time. But since no two readers are alike, I’ve also included some of the most popular upcoming books from bestselling authors to help you build a to-read list perfect for you. Let’s get into it—here are the must-read March 2025 book releases!
 

FTW Book Club Pick – March 2025




Care and Feeding – Laurie Woolever


A must-read for food lovers and industry professionals alike, Care and Feeding dives into the unseen challenges of restaurant life. Laurie Woolever, longtime collaborator with the late Anthony Bourdain, offers an insightful and often humorous look at what it takes to feed people—physically and emotionally.


📅 Release Date: March 4, 2025





I Would Die for You – Sandie Jones


Nicole Forbes never expected an old scandal to come knocking at her door. When a reporter starts asking about the dramatic breakup of an ’80s rock band, she brushes it off—until her daughter goes missing hours later, checked out of school by a woman who doesn’t exist.


The story flashes back to 1986, when sixteen-year-old Cassie is obsessed with Secret Oktober, the biggest band of the decade. But when lead singer Ben Edwards crosses paths with Cassie’s older sister, Nicole, a chain reaction of obsession, betrayal, and tragedy begins—one that’s finally catching up with them all.


📅 Release Date: March 25, 2025






Broken Country – Clare Leslie Hall

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Beth and Frank’s quiet farm life is disrupted when Frank’s brother kills a dog attacking their sheep—only to discover the dog belonged to Beth’s first love, Gabriel Wolfe. As Gabriel re-enters her life, Beth is forced to confront painful memories of her lost son and decide who she truly wants to be.


📅 Release Date: March 4, 2025





Propaganda Girls – Lisa Rogak


During World War II, four women wielded words as weapons, changing the course of history without ever stepping onto a battlefield. As members of the OSS, America’s wartime intelligence agency, they worked in the shadows—spinning disinformation, planting forged documents, and crafting propaganda designed to break the morale of Axis soldiers.


From Betty MacDonald, an intrepid reporter, to Czech-born Zuzka Lauwers, who mastered deception in multiple languages, to Jane Smith-Hutton, an American diplomat’s wife in Tokyo, and the legendary actress Marlene Dietrich, Propaganda Girls tells the untold story of the women who used their pens, their voices, and their cunning to outwit the enemy.


A fascinating, fast-paced historical account that reads like a spy thriller, Propaganda Girls shines a light on the hidden war fought behind the headlines.


📅 Release Date: March 4, 2025






Count My Lies – Sophie Stava


Sloane Carraway has a habit of embellishing the truth. But when a small lie about being a nurse lands her a nanny job for a powerful New York couple, she realizes she’s not the only one keeping secrets.


📅 Release Date: March 4, 2025






When the Moon Hits Your Eye – John Scalzi


What if the moon… turned into cheese? That’s the absurd but strangely plausible premise behind John Scalzi’s latest sci-fi adventure, When the Moon Hits Your Eye.


As scientists scramble to understand the impossible, governments, billionaires, and conspiracy theorists all rush to claim their slice—literally. Meanwhile, the rest of humanity is left to grapple with the surreal new reality, from doomsday panic to moon-cheese capitalism. Through humor, chaos, and an oddly touching dose of existentialism, Scalzi explores what happens when the absurd collides with the everyday.


Utterly bizarre in the best way, When the Moon Hits Your Eye is a satirical, smart, and wildly entertaining read.


📅 Release Date: March 25, 2025





Dream Count – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


The celebrated author of Americanah delivers a sweeping literary tale following four women navigating love, loss, and self-discovery. Set during the pandemic, their intertwining stories explore longing, ambition, and unexpected turns of fate.


📅 Release Date: March 4, 2025






The Jackal’s Mistress – Chris Bohjalian


In the war-torn Shenandoah Valley of 1864, Libby Steadman fights to keep her family’s gristmill running while the Civil War rages around her. With her husband imprisoned in a Union camp, survival is her only focus—until the day she finds a gravely wounded Union soldier near her property.


Helping him means treason, but leaving him to die is unthinkable. As she nurses him back to health, Libby begins to wonder: Could this soldier be her key to getting her husband back? The war is closing in, and with each passing day, her decision becomes more dangerous.

A gripping historical drama, The Jackal’s Mistress explores love, survival, and the impossible choices people make in times of war.


📅 Release Date: March 11, 2025




Liquid – Mariam Rahmani


In Liquid, Mariam Rahmani crafts a novel that is both fluid and unshakable—a deeply personal, genre-defying exploration of gender, identity, and self-reinvention. Set between two vastly different worlds, Liquid follows a protagonist navigating the spaces between culture, expectation, and the ever-changing nature of selfhood. A novel that refuses to be confined, Liquid is for readers who crave something daring, unconventional, and beautifully written.


📅 Release Date: March 4, 2025





Blood Moon – Sandra Brown


Three years after the mysterious disappearance of Crissy Mellin, detective John Bowie is ordered to team up with Beth Collins, a true-crime producer known for uncovering shocking truths. Beth believes Crissy wasn’t an isolated case—every time there’s a blood moon, another girl vanishes.


With the next blood moon only four days away, John and Beth are in a race against time. As they follow a chilling trail of clues, they realize the killer isn’t just watching them—he’s planning his next move.


A pulse-pounding thriller from Sandra Brown that will keep you guessing until the final page.


📅 Release Date: March 4, 2025





One Good Thing – Georgia Hunter


A gripping historical novel from the author of We Were the Lucky Ones. Best friends Lili and Esti flee Nazi-occupied Italy, disguising themselves as nuns in Florence. But when tragedy strikes, Lili is forced to make an impossible choice that will determine Esti’s son’s fate.


📅 Release Date: March 4, 2025








Sunrise on the Reaping – Suzanne Collins


The Hunger Games saga continues with this prequel set during the 50th annual Hunger Games. District 12’s Haymitch Abernathy is thrown into an unprecedented Quarter Quell, where twice the number of tributes must fight for survival.


📅 Release Date: March 18, 2025




Saltwater – Katy Hays


Helen Lingate has spent her life haunted by whispers that her father murdered her mother. Returning to their Capri estate on the 30th anniversary of the tragedy, she plans to blackmail her family for the truth—until her co-conspirator vanishes with the ransom money.


📅 Release Date: March 25, 2025








The Love We Found – Jill Santopolo


A decade after The Light We Lost, Lucy stumbles upon a faded photograph of Gabe, tucked inside a box of old memories. On the back, an address in Rome. On impulse, she books a flight, desperate to reconnect with the past. There, she meets Dr. Dax Armstrong, a humanitarian doctor with his own share of heartache. As Lucy unravels the missing years between her and Gabe, she’s forced to confront a truth she’s long buried—one that could change everything for her son.


Santopolo delivers another deeply emotional novel about love, loss, and the weight of the past. A beautifully bittersweet journey of self-discovery and second chances.


📅 Release Date: March 18, 2025






Everything is Tuberculosis – John Green


John Green shines a light on a devastating yet often overlooked disease. Inspired by his friendship with a tuberculosis patient in Sierra Leone, this book is both an eye-opening exposé and a heartfelt call to action.


📅 Release Date: March 18, 2025






Lethal Prey – John Sandford


Two decades ago, Doris Grandfelt was brutally stabbed and left in the woods near St. Paul, Minnesota. Her killer was never caught. Now, as she battles terminal cancer, Doris’s sister Lara takes justice into her own hands, publishing the entire case file online and offering a staggering $5 million reward for information. When a true-crime blogger uncovers the murder weapon, detectives Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers jump on the case—only to find themselves racing against an internet-fueled frenzy, with every development livestreamed to the public. As online sleuths close in, so does the real killer.


Fast-paced and full of twists, Lethal Prey proves once again why Sandford is a master of the thriller genre.


📅 Release Date: March 25, 2025







Elphie – Gregory Maguire


A prequel to Wicked, Elphie follows the early years of Elphaba, the green-skinned girl destined to become the Wicked Witch of the West. Born into a troubled family and ostracized by society, she learns to navigate a world where she never quite fits in.


📅 Release Date: March 25, 2025







Nobody’s Fool – Harlan Coben


A year after the chaos of Fool Me Once, Private Investigator Sami Kierce is settling into a quieter life—fatherhood, night classes, and a career shift toward teaching aspiring detectives in New York City. But that fragile peace shatters when he spots a woman in the back of his classroom: Anna, his ex-girlfriend. The woman he’s spent twenty years believing he killed.

Two decades ago, Sami woke up in a Spanish hostel with a knife in his hand and Anna’s blood on the sheets. He ran, burying the memory deep, convincing himself he could never untangle what really happened. Now, with Anna alive and in front of him, Sami is thrown into a race to uncover the truth—before his past catches up to him for good.


Coben delivers another high-stakes thriller packed with twists, tension, and a premise that will have readers flipping pages late into the night.


📅 Release Date: March 25, 202






Our Infinite Fates – Laura Steven


In this intricate, multi-perspective novel, Laura Steven weaves a story about destiny, choice, and the countless paths a life can take. Spanning continents and timelines, Our Infinite Fates follows a cast of characters whose lives intersecwt in unexpected ways, raising the question: How much of our future is truly within our control?


📅 Release Date: March 4, 2025





The Paris Express – Emma Donoghue


In 1895, a packed train barrels toward the Montparnasse station in Paris, moments away from one of the most infamous derailments in history. Onboard, a web of strangers hurtles toward fate—politicians on the verge of scandal, an ambitious secretary fighting for a foothold in the emerging film industry, and a mother making an impossible choice. As the century teeters on the edge of transformation, their lives will collide in ways none of them could have foreseen.

With her signature depth and historical precision, Donoghue crafts a vivid, immersive novel that captures a moment when the world was changing, and so were the people within it.


📅 Release Date: March 18, 2025




Wild Dark Shore – Charlotte McConaghy

Wild Dark Shore – Charlotte McConaghy


Known for her immersive, climate-focused fiction, Charlotte McConaghy returns with Wild Dark Shore, a haunting novel set on Shearwater, a remote island near Antarctica. Dominic Salt and his three children are the last caretakers of the world’s largest seed bank, a place once bustling with researchers but now nearly forgotten. When a mysterious woman washes ashore in the midst of a violent storm, the Salts take her in—only to realize she’s keeping dangerous secrets. But they aren’t the only ones hiding something. As the island’s isolation grows heavier, tensions rise, and the fragile balance of their world begins to unravel.

With McConaghy’s signature poetic prose and deep environmental themes, Wild Dark Shore explores survival, secrecy, and the limits of trust.


📅 Release Date: March 4, 2025



The Next Conversation – Jefferson Fisher


How do you argue less and talk more? In The Next Conversation, communication expert Jefferson Fisher offers practical, no-nonsense strategies to help you navigate difficult discussions, defuse tension, and strengthen your relationships—whether at work, home, or anywhere in between. With a blend of real-world examples and actionable advice, Fisher teaches readers how to stay calm, listen effectively, and make every conversation more productive.


Perfect for anyone looking to improve their communication skills, The Next Conversation is a must-read for fostering better dialogue in every aspect of life.


📅 Release Date: March 18, 2025

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Abundance – Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson


Why does it feel like progress is slowing down when we have more resources than ever? In Abundance, journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson examine why scarcity still dominates industries like housing, healthcare, and energy—despite the wealth and innovation available. They argue that outdated policies, bureaucratic hurdles, and societal resistance to change have stifled growth, and they propose a new political and economic framework that prioritizes building, expansion, and innovation to create a more abundant future.


A must-read for anyone interested in policy, economics, and the future of innovation, Abundance offers a fresh perspective on how we can break free from stagnation and rethink the way we build the world around us.


📅 Release Date: March 18, 2025

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The Tell – Amy Griffin


What happens when you start questioning the story you’ve told yourself your entire life? In The Tell, Amy Griffin shares her journey of self-discovery, unraveling long-buried memories of childhood trauma through psychedelic-assisted therapy. As she pieces together the past, Griffin explores the ways perfectionism and control masked deeper wounds—and what it takes to heal.


Raw, compelling, and deeply personal, The Tell is a memoir of resilience, offering insight and hope for anyone on their own path to self-understanding.


📅 Release Date: March 2025


 

Books of the Month – March 2025


March brings an irresistible lineup of must-read books, spanning atmospheric fiction, insider culinary insights, gripping psychological thrillers, and thought-provoking explorations of identity. Whether you're looking for a sweeping literary escape, a deep dive into food culture, or a fast-paced story that will keep you up all night, this month’s selections deliver something for every kind of reader.


From the hauntingly remote landscapes of Wild Dark Shore to the sharp, insider storytelling of Care and Feeding, the psychological unraveling in Count My Lies, the lyrical depth of Liquid, and the multi-layered journey in Our Infinite Fates—these books promise compelling narratives and unforgettable characters.


This month’s selections:


📖 Wild Dark Shore – Charlotte McConaghy

📖 The Next Conversation – Jefferson Fisher

📖 Care and Feeding – Laurie Woolever

📖 Count My Lies – Sophie Stava

📖 Liquid – Mariam Rahmani

📖 Our Infinite Fates – Laura Steven

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