55 new books coming out March 18 – 24, 2025

By Kobo • March 18, 2025New eBooks and Audiobooks

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

🧰 Help and How-to

The Next Conversation: Argue Less, Talk More by Jefferson Fisher – A communication expert’s advice broken down into a simple but broadly appliable 3-part system of control, confidence, and connection that will help in any conversation.

Shred Happens: So Easy, So Good: 100+ Protein-Packed Mediterranean Favorites with a Low-Carb Twist by Arash Hashemi

The Good Death: A Guide for Supporting Your Loved One through the End of Life by Suzanne B. O’Brien, RN - Practical wisdom and holistic planning to ease life's most difficult transition, from an acclaimed hospice nurse, death doula, and end-of-life educator.

This Is Body Grief: Making Peace with the Loss That Comes with Living in a Body by Jayne Mattingly

Anyone Can Play Music: Unlock Your Musical Potential with the Laws of Brainjo by Josh Turknett

Chop Chop: Cooking the Food of Nigeria by Ozoz Sokoh

💡 Big Ideas

Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson – Thought-leaders Klein and Thompson argue that the crises of today have resulted from a failure to adapt laws and protections to the realities of today, leading to a sharper awareness of what problems are while our ability to solve them has been blunted.

Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labour by Kate Beaton

Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service by Michael Lewis, ed. – From some of America’s best nonfiction writers and documentarians, a collection of profiles of people working in the civil service for the public good.

The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker by Suzanne O'Sullivan

Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry by Beth Allison Barr

I'll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan by Giaae Kwon

🗣 True Stories

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green – Novelist and podcaster John Green traces the history of tuberculosis through to the present day and reveals how deadly it remains and how unfairly it selects its victims among the haves and have-nots.

I'll Never Call Him Dad Again: Turning Our Family Trauma of Sexual Assault and Chemical Submission into a Collective Fight by Caroline Darian

Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump's Return to Power by Alex Isenstadt - From Axios’ Senior Political Reporter Alex Isenstadt, a fly-on-the-wall account of Donald Trump’s history-defying re-election campaign.

Heartbreaker: A Memoir by Mike Campbell

The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing by Joshua Hammer

Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping's China by Emily Feng

In My Remaining Years by Jean Grae

💘 Romance

No More Spies by Lexi Blake

Royce by Dale Mayer

Beach Vibes by Susan Mallery – A beach read about family, secrets, and betrayal.

The Love We Found by Jill Santopolo

Seth by Lynn Raye Harris

The Prince's Secret Daughter by Elizabeth Lennox

🗡️ Crime, Mystery, and Action

Husband Missing by Lisa Regan

Acts of Malice by Alex Gray

An Extremely Unlikely Death by Hannah Hendy

Murder, She Wrote: Snowy with a Chance of Murder by Jessica Fletcher

So Wicked (A Faith Bold FBI Suspense Thriller—Book Twenty) by Blake Pierce

Chloe by Connie Briscoe – A contemporary update on Daphne Du Maurier’s classic Rebecca, with domestic noir twists and a billionaire husband whose late wife may not have died by her own hand.

✍ Poetry

Make Believe: Poems for Hoping Again by Victoria Hutchins

🖊️ Literary & Contemporary Fiction

The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue – Taking place in a single day, the author of Room and The Wonder delivers a historical novel that reimagines an 1895 French railway disaster, known today primarily through photographs.

The Story She Left Behind by Patti Callahan Henry

The Hymn to Dionysus by Natasha Pulley

Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah – The first new novel from Gurnah since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021.

Early Thirties by Josh Duboff

O Sinners! by Nicole Cuffy

🩸 Horror

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones - A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran Pastor is discovered within a wall and what it unveils is a slow massacre.

The Haunting of Room 904 by Erika T. Wurth

Passing Through a Prairie Country by Dennis E. Staples

✨ Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Speculative Fiction

Shadow of The Dragons by James E. Wisher

The Prince Without Sorrow by Maithree Wijesekara

Twice as Dead by Harry Turtledove

Aunt Tigress by Emily Yu-Xuan Qin

Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel) by Suzanne Collins – In this prequel to the original trilogy, we witness the Quarter Quell from which Haymitch Abernathy emerged as champion.

The Martian Contingency by Mary Robinette Kowal

The Third Rule of Time Travel by Philip Fracassi

George R. R. Martin Presents Wild Cards: Card Sharks by George R. R. Martin