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A new month means new books, and March 2025 is packed with exciting releases across every genre! Whether you’re looking for a twisty thriller, a sweeping historical novel, an emotional literary read, or a heartwarming romance, there’s something for every kind of reader hitting shelves this month.
From highly anticipated debuts to the latest works from bestselling authors, this list highlights the must-read books coming out in March. Get ready to update your TBR—these new releases are sure to be the talk of the book world!
Want to know which books I am predicting for Book of the Month and Aardvark Book Club? Check out my predictions lists!
Related: March 2025 Book of the Month Predictions and March 2025 Aardvark Book Club Predictions

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Mystery/Thriller March 2025 New Book Releases

Count My Lies by Sophie Stava
Release Date: March 4, 2025
A read-in-one-night suspense thriller narrated by a compulsive liar whose little white lies allow her to enter into the life and comfort of a wealthy married couple who are harboring much darker secrets themselves. For the millions of us still chasing those gone girls, this is perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Lucy Foley, and Laura Dave.

Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave by Elle Cosimano
Release Date: March 4, 2025
Fifth book in a series
From New York Times bestseller and Edgar-Award nominee Elle Cosimano, comes Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave―the hugely anticipated next installment in the fan-favorite Finlay Donovan series.

The Good Samaritan by Toni Halleen
Release Date: March 4, 2025
A college professor is offered a chance at redemption—if he can figure out the right thing to do in this thoughtful psychological thriller from the author of The Surrogate.

The Undoing of Violet Claybourne by Emily Critchley
Release Date: March 4, 2025
For fans of Sarah Penner and The Foundling comes a slow-burn gothic mystery following Gillian, a young girl enthralled by the enigmatic Claybourne sisters, their house at Thornleigh Hall, and the tragedy that binds them together for good.

You Killed Me First by John Marrs
Release Date: March 4, 2025
It’s 5 November, and a woman awakens to a nightmare. Bound and gagged, she lies trapped in the heart of a towering bonfire. As the smoke thickens, panic sets in – she’s moments away from being engulfed in flames. How did it come to this?
Rewind eleven months: Margot, a faded TV star, and her long-suffering friend Anna watch as glamorous Liv and her flawless family move into their street. The three women soon fabricate the perfect pretence of friendship, but each harbours her own deadly secret – and newcomer Liv senses something is terribly wrong beneath the polished exteriors.
As cracks widen in the veneer of perfection and lies escalate out of control, tension ignites. Bonfire Night is approaching and someone is set to burn…But who will it be?

All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman
Release Date: March 11, 2025
Florence Grimes is a thirty-one-year-old party girl who always takes the easy way out. Single, broke and unfulfilled after the humiliating end to her girl band career, she has only one reason to get out of bed each day: her ten-year-old son Dylan. But then Alfie Risby, her son’s bully and the heir to a vast frozen food empire, mysteriously vanishes during a class trip, and Dylan becomes the prime suspect. Florence, for once, is faced with a task she can’t quit: She’s got to find Alfie and clear her son’s name, or risk losing Dylan forever.

Kills Well With Others by Deanna Raybourn
Release Date: March 11, 2025
Second Book in a Series
Four women assassins, senior in status—and in age—sharpen their knives for another bloody good adventure in this riotous follow-up to the New York Times bestselling sensation Killers of a Certain Age.

Killer Potential by Hannah Deitch
Release Date: March 18, 2025
Debut Author
Darkly funny and provocative, this edge-of-your-seat thrill ride follows two unlikely fugitives—an SAT tutor who finds her rich employers brutally murdered and the bound woman she frees from their mansion—an irresistible debut novel perfect for fans of The Guest and My Sister, the Serial Killer.

Serial Killer Support Group by Saratoga Schaefer
Release Date: March 18, 2025
Debut Author
After her sister is murdered, a woman infiltrates a support group for serial killers in this biting queer feminist debut thriller, perfect for fans of The Final Girl Support Group and My Sister, the Serial Killer.

The Ten Worst People in New York by Matt Plass
Release Date: March 18, 2025
Perfect for fans of The Collective and We Begin at the End, this psychological thriller will make you question the nature of justice… and revenge.

Gothictown by Emily Carpenter
Release Date: March 25, 2025
In an immersive Southern Gothic with echoes of Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery and Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn, a restauranteur lured by pandemic-era incentives moves her family to a seemingly idyllic small town in Georgia, only to discover a darkness lurking beneath the Southern hospitality and sun-dappled streets…

I Would Die for You by Sandie Jones
Release Date: March 25, 2025
Infused with the sounds of the 80s, this thrilling novel from the inimitable Sandie Jones explores the chaos that the frenzy of fandom can provoke.

Retreat by Krysten Ritter
Release Date: March 25, 2025
A beautiful con artist insinuates herself into a wealthy socialite’s life . . . with deadly consequences, in this serpentine thriller about identity and obsession, from actress, director and bestselling author Krysten Ritter.

The Other People by C. B. Everett
Release Date: March 25, 2025
A group of strangers gathered at a mysterious country house are in a race against time to stop a serial killer in this twisty, high-concept thriller that combines Agatha Christie with Shutter Island.

Saltwater by Katy Hays
Release Date: March 25, 2025
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Cloisters comes an electrifying thriller about an opulent family retreat to Italy that’s shattered by the resurfacing of a decades-old crime.

This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead
Release Date: March 25, 2025
From the national bestselling author of In My Dreams I Hold a Knife and Midnight is the Darkest Hour comes a chilling, compulsive story of five amateur sleuths, whose hunt for an elusive killer catapults them into danger as the world watches.
Romance March 2025 New Book Releases

The Love Simulation by Etta Easton
Release Date: March 4, 2025
A passionate vice principal and a guarded science teacher compete for a grand prize, only to realize their budding relationship might be the real jackpot.

Promise Me Sunshine by Cara Bastone
Release Date: March 4, 2025
Grieving the loss of her best friend, a young woman’s life is turned upside down when she meets a grumpy stranger who swears he can help her live again, in this heartwarming, slow-burn romance by the author of Ready or Not.

Homegrown Magic by Jamie Pacton and Rebecca Podos
Release Date: March 11, 2025
A delightful queer romantic fantasy full of friends-to-lovers chemistry, found family, rival family drama, and cozy garden magic from two acclaimed YA authors making their debut in the adult space.

Beach Vibes by Susan Mallery
Release Date: March 18, 2025
What would you do if you caught your brother cheating on your best friend? From #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery comes an unforgettable beach read about love, secrets, betrayal and the family we’re born into—and the one we choose for ourselves, perfect for fans of Emily Giffin and Mary Kay Andrews.

Fake It Like You Mean It by Megan Murphy
Release Date: March 18, 2025
Fake dating, enemies to lovers, and a wonderfully unique forced proximity debut romance, perfect for fans of Elena Armas’s The American Roommate Experiment and Drew Barrymore’s classic rom-com Fifty First Dates.

Spring Fling by Annie England Noblin
Release Date: March 18, 2025
Rekindle your belief in the magic of first love and the charm of small towns with Annie England Noblin’s delightful friends-to-lovers romantic comedy, perfect for readers of Jill Shalvis and Sarah Adams.

Cover Story by Celia Laskey
Release Date: March 25, 2025
A hilarious, emotional love story about an extremely anxious publicist who’s tasked with keeping an extremely gay starlet in the closet—but who ends up falling for her instead.

Just Our Luck by Denise Williams
Release Date: March 25, 2025
A lottery ticket + donuts = love in this steamy new fake dating romance from beloved author Denise Williams.

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Contemporary Fiction March 2025 New Book Releases

A Girl Within a Girl Within a Girl by Nanda Reddy
Release Date: March 4, 2025
A girl takes on a series of identities to survive, shrouding herself in layers of secrets, until years later when she is forced to reckon with her past.

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Release Date: March 4, 2025
A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon. A novel of breathtaking twists, dizzying beauty, and ferocious love, Wild Dark Shore is about the impossible choices we make to protect the people we love, even as the world around us disappears.

Jane and Dan at the End of the World by Colleen Oakley
Release Date: March 11, 2025
Date night goes off the rails in this hilariously insightful take on midlife and marriage when one unhappy couple find themselves at the heart of a crime in progress, from the USA Today bestselling author of The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise.

Early Thirties by Josh Duboff
Release Date: March 18, 2025
A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about two thirtysomething best friends’ messy search for connection and love in New York, perfect for fans of Rebecca Serle, Gabrielle Zevin, and Dolly Alderton.

Nobody Asked for This by Georgia Toews
Release Date: March 25, 2025
A razor-sharp dramedy following a twenty-something female comic as she navigates family grief, a dysfunctional friendship, and a date gone very wrong, from Georgia Toews, author of Hey, Good Luck Out There.
Literary Fiction March 2025 New Book Releases

Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
Release Date: March 4, 2025
A love triangle unearths dangerous, deadly secrets from the past in this thrilling tale perfect for fans of The Paper Palace and Where the Crawdads Sing.

Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Release Date: March 4, 2025
A publishing event ten years in the making—a searing, exquisite new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—the story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires.

Red Dog Farm by Nathaniel Ian Miller
Release Date: March 4, 2025
From the author of The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven, an atmospheric novel about family, friends, and falling in love, as a young man tries to find purpose on a struggling Icelandic cattle farm.

Universality by Natasha Brown
Release Date: March 4, 2025
Late one night on a Yorkshire farm, in the midst of an illegal rave, a young man is nearly bludgeoned to death with a solid gold bar.
An ambitious young journalist sets out to uncover the truth surrounding the attack, connecting the dots between an amoral banker landlord, an iconoclastic newspaper columnist, and a radical anarchist movement that has taken up residence on the farm. She solves the mystery, but her viral exposé raises more questions than it answers. Through a voyeuristic lens, and with a simmering power, Universality focuses on words: what we say, how we say it, and what we really mean.

We Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill Brown
Release Date: March 4, 2025
An exuberant and ribald debut novel about three adolescent girls, as sweetly vulnerable as they are cunning and tough, coming of age in a gritty postindustrial town in nineties Yorkshire, England.

Everybody Says It’s Everything by Xhenet Aliu
Release Date: March 18, 2025
In this unforgettable novel from the award-winning author of Brass, twins growing up in the United States in the nineties unravel larger truths about identity and sibling bonds when one of them gets wrapped up in the war in Kosovo.
Historical Fiction March 2025 New Book Releases

The Girl from Greenwich Street by Lauren Willig
Release Date: March 4, 2025
Based on the true story of a famous trial, this novel is Law and Order: 1800, as Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr investigate the shocking murder of a young woman who everyone—and no one—seemed to know.

The Californians by Brian Castleberry
Release Date: March 11, 2025
For fans of Trust and North Woods, a daring novel that spans 100 years of American history, from the early days of cinema to the rise of NFTs, about parents and children, the drive to create even in times of crisis, and the inheritance of grand western dreams.

A Map to Paradise by Susan Meissner
Release Date: March 18, 2025
With her name on the Hollywood blacklist and her life on hold, starlet Melanie Cole has little choice in company. There is her next-door neighbor, Elwood, but the screenwriter’s agoraphobia allows for just short chats through open windows. He’s her sole confidante, though, as she and her housekeeper, Eva, an immigrant from war-torn Europe, rarely make conversation.
Then one early morning Melanie and Eva spot Elwood’s sister-in-law and caretaker, June, digging in his beloved rose garden. After that they don’t see Elwood at all anymore. Where could a man who never leaves the house possibly have gone?
As they try to find out if something has happened to him, unexpected secrets are revealed among all three women, leading to an alliance that seems the only way for any of them to hold on to what they can still call their own. But it’s a fragile pact and one little spark could send it all up in smoke…
Sci-Fi March 2025 New Book Releases

The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
Release Date: March 4, 2025
From Laila Lalami—the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist and a “maestra of literary fiction” (NPR)—comes a riveting and utterly original novel about one woman’s fight for freedom, set in a near future where even dreams are under surveillance.

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Release Date: March 18, 2025
A chilling historical horror novel set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice.

Passing Through a Prairie Country by Dennis E. Staples
Release Date: March 18, 2025
A darkly humorous thriller about the ghosts that haunt the temples of excess we call casinos, and the people caught in their high-stakes, low-odds web.

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins (A Hunger Games Novel)
Release Date: March 18, 2025
The phenomenal fifth book in the Hunger Games series!
When you’ve been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for?

Dissolution by Nicholas Binge
Release Date: March 25, 2025
A woman dives into her husband’s memories to uncover a decades-old feud threatening reality itself in this staggering technothriller from the bestselling author of Ascension.

When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi
Release Date: March 25, 2025
The moon has turned into cheese.
Now humanity has to deal with it.
It’s a wild moonage daydream. Ride this rocket.
Horror March 2025 New Book Releases

The Memory Ward by Jon Bassoff
Release Date: March 4, 2025
From critically acclaimed author Jon Bassoff, The Memory Ward is a haunting Russian doll of a novel about one man’s attempt to discover what’s real and what isn’t …

The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica
Release Date: March 4, 2025
The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a thrilling work of literary horror about a woman cloistered in a secretive, violent religious order, while outside the world has fallen into chaos.

Nowhere by Allison Gunn
Release Date: March 25, 2025
Mare of Easttown meets The Outsider in this spine-tingling and twisty debut about a series of disappearances in a small, fundamentalist town and what one broken family must do to remain together as dark forces close in.
Magical Realism/Fantasy March 2025 New Book Releases

Days of Shattered Faith by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Release Date: March 4, 2025
Third book in a Series
Welcome to Alkhalend, Jewel of the Waters, capital of Usmai, greatest of the Successor States, inheritor to the necromantic dominion that was the Moeribandi Empire and tomorrow’s frontline in the Palleseen’s relentless march to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world.

Emberclaw by L. R. Lam
Release Date: March 4, 2025
Second book in a Series
The final book in a lush and inventive fantasy duology with a slowburn romance, in which long-banished dragons, revered as gods, return to the mortal realm—a perfect read for your next book club!

A Harvest of Hearts by Andrea Eames
Release Date: March 4, 2025
In the beloved tradition of Howl’s Moving Castle meets The House in the Cerulean Sea, a whimsical and unforgettable cozy fantasy about adventure, common sense, and the power of love, as a cheeky butcher’s daughter, a befuddlingly handsome sorcerer, and his clever talking cat unlock magical secrets in the dark heart of their kingdom…

Oathbound by Tracy Deon
Release Date: March 4, 2025
Tracy Deonn’s #1 New York Times bestselling Legendborn Cycle continues in the sensational third book about a dazzling contemporary fantasy world that blends Southern Black Girl Magic with secret societies and the legend of King Arthur!

Spells, Strings, and Forgotten Things by Breanne Randall
Release Date: March 4, 2025
A young witch cursed with sacrificing memories to cast spells must decide how much she’s willing to lose to save her town in this thrilling tale of magic, love, and self-discovery—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic.

The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
Release Date: March 4, 2025
The River Has Roots is the hugely anticipated solo debut of the New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award winning author Amal El-Mohtar. Follow the river Liss to the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, and meet two sisters who cannot be separated, even in death.

The Winter Goddess by Megan Barnard
Release Date: March 11, 2025
A goddess is cursed to endlessly live and die as a mortal until she understands the value of human life, in this inventive, moving reimagining of Irish mythology.

The Bane Witch by Ava Morgyn
Release Date: March 18, 2025
Practical Magic meets Gone Girl in Ava Morgyn’s next dark, spellbinding novel about a woman who is more than a witch―she’s a hunter.
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