March Fiction Preview: 12 of the Best Books Coming Out in March 2024

The legendary Nobel Prize winner's rediscovered novel follows a happily married woman's annual sojourn to the island where her mother lies dead and her ritual of taking a new lover for one night.

The latest thrilling tale from "the First Lady of Irish crime" is the sequel to her 2021 novel "The Searched." Once again, the reader follows Cal Hooper, a former Chicago cop who has gone into early retirement in rural Ireland, where he's begun a new life with a local single mother and her teenage child, Trey. Everything seems to be going swimmingly, until one day Trey's father reappears in the town with an English millionaire at his side and a plot to find gold in the area.

In this debut novel from a New Yorker staff writer, a young Black man's life is forever changed when he joins the presidential campaign of a candidate vying to be the United States' first Black president. This was one of four sublime books of the season that were featured in Tertulia's First Dibs Editors Salon showcase in February.

From the author of The Tiger's Wife, the winner of the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction and a finalist for the National Book Award, comes a story set in the near-future about a mother and daughter, named Silvia, who've been displaced from their ancestral home and forced to relocate in a run down luxury tower managed by the Silvia's aunt. The enigmatic aunt's mysterious stories open up a new world for Silvia and lead her down an uncertain path.

This novel follows a Pitbull impersonator from Miami who, after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Mr. World Wide's legal team, decides to try his hand at being Tony Montana a.k.a. Scarface next. If that didn't hook you, the publisher is describing this as "Scarface meets Moby Dick" – which we think might be the most intriguing sell of the year.

Literary all-star Percival Everett's latest release is a bold reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.

A darkly satirical fictionalization of the world of low-wage work that Kirkus Reviews calls "the workplace dramedy of the year." From the author of wildly popular The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. which took the best-of-2013 lists by storm.

With her latest, this former finalist for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, has reimagined the myth of Persephone and Demeter on a Fortune 500 CEO's private island.

A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there. This was one of four sublime new books of the season featured in Tertulia's First Dibs Editors Salon in February.

"Rijneveld compares well with Nabokov in the richness of his invention and the delicacy of his prose, while taking a much more serious approach to their shared subject," raved The Guardian. "It’s a unique creation and a tour de force of transgressive imagination – a dazzling addition to the oeuvre of an author of prodigious gifts."