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Spring is just around the corner. As the days get longer, you’ll want to spend those extra hours of sunlight with a good book. This month’s must-reads include astronaut and activist Amanda Nguyen’s debut memoir, Torrey Peters’ experimental follow-up to her 2021 debut bestseller Detransition, Baby, and Abdulrazak Gurnah’s first new novel since winning the Nobel Prize four years ago.
Other notable March releases include Swamplandia! author Karen Russell’s long-awaited second novel, Slate senior writer Scaachi Koul’s much-anticipated sophomore essay collection, and journalist Josh Duboff’s charming debut about the struggle to maintain friendships in your thirties.
Here, the 12 new books you should read this month.
Sucker Punch, Scaachi Koul (March 4)
Scaachi Koul’s follow-up to her 2017 essay collection, One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, looks at the radical changes the journalist experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. With humor, she writes about the end of her marriage, the loss of her job, and her mother’s cancer diagnosis. Throughout Sucker Punch, she also examines the many fights she has had with her mom, her ex-husband and too many online trolls, questioning whether any of them were actually worth having.
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Saving Five, Amanda Nguyen (March 4)
To tell the story of her life so far, activist and astronaut Amanda Nguyen consulted her younger selves. Her debut memoir, Saving Five, uses magical interludes to incorporate her points of view at the ages of five, 15, 22, and 30 in the hopes of better understanding the lingering effects of an abusive childhood, campus sexual assault, and the subsequent fight for justice that resulted in the passage of the 2016 Sexual Assault Survivors’ Rights Act.
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Count My Lies, Sophie Stava (March 4)
Sophie Stava’s debut, Count My Lies, is a suspenseful thriller told from the…
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