49 new books coming out March 11 – 17, 2025

By Kobo • March 11, 2025New eBooks and Audiobooks

The new books we're most excited about this week...

🧰 Help and How-to

How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion by Yung Pueblo

We Need Your Art: Stop Messing Around and Make Something by Amie McNee

The Marriage You Want: Moving beyond Stereotypes for a Relationship Built on Scripture, New Data, and Emotional Health by Sheila Wray Gregoire and Dr. Keith Gregoire

Renegade Grief: A Guide to the Wild Ride of Life after Loss by Carla Fernandez

Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change by Olga Khazan – Headed toward a mental health crisis, the author of Weird embarks on a journey of discovering if and how we can change our personalities to be happier than we ever thought we could be.

💡 Big Ideas

How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998 by Helen Garner

These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means by Christopher Summerfield – A neuroscientist explains where AIs in the form of large-language models like ChatGPT came from and how much they’re likely to come to resemble human cognition.

Storm the Ballot Box: An Insider’s Guide to a Voting Revolution by Jo-Ann Roberts

Hayek vs Keynes: A Battle of Ideas by Thomas Hoerber

America, Let Me In: A Choose Your Immigration Story by Felipe Torres Medina

🗣 True Stories

The Tell: A Memoir by Amy Griffin

Care and Feeding: A Memoir by Laurie Woolever

Voice for the Voiceless: Over Seven Decades of Struggle with China for My Land and My People by Dalai Lama

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams

Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer by Dylan Mulvaney

Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful by David Enrich – The New York Times Business Investigations Editor and author of Dark Towers dives into the long-running campaign to overturn a legendary Supreme Court ruling that would up-end our understanding of free speech in the name of silencing dissent and criticism.

Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy by Bridgett M. Davis

💘 Romance

The Strawberry Patch Pancake House (Dream Harbor, Book 4) by Laurie Gilmore

Always a Fake Bridesmaid by Carrie Ann Ryan

Blood Skye by Donna Grant

Grand Romantic Delusions and the Madness of Mirth (Part 2) by Meghan Ciana Doidge

Landon by Maryann Jordan

Deep Pockets by Nana Malone – A man forced to be the white knight to his best friend’s little sister finds the friction of forced proximity throws off sparks bound to start a blaze

🗡️ Crime, Mystery, and Action

Then She Vanished by Carla Kovach

Murder in Covent Garden by Anita Davison

Marriage and Murder by Stephanie Laurens

The Writer by James Patterson and J. D. Barker – Patterson & Barker team up to deliver a twisty standalone thriller about a true crime writer suspected of committing a murder in her own home library.

The Little Sushi Chef by Ty Hutchinson

Silent as the Grave by Rhys Bowen

🖊️ Literary & Contemporary Fiction

Flesh by David Szalay

Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories by Torrey Peters – The author of Detransition, Baby returns with a short novel and a handful of boundary-pushing stories

The Beach by Cesare Pavese

Liquid: A Love Story by Mariam Rahmani – A young woman despairs of ever getting ahead in academia and hatches a plan to marry rich by the end of the summer.

Goddess Complex by Sanjena Sathian

Counterattacks at Thirty by Won-pyung Sohn

🩸 Horror

The Shape of Stones by Hildur Knútsdóttir – An archaeological research trip into deepest darkest Iceland uncovers brutal horrors that are all but past.

She Waits for You Beyond the Dark by Kristen Simmons