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Hidden Gems: Fiction Books You Might Have Missed March
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The arsonists' city
by Hala Alyan
The scattered members of a Middle-Eastern clan unite at an ancestral home in Beirut to change a new patriarch’s decision to sell the property, igniting revelations about their family’s past in Lebanon, Syria and the United States.
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The smash-up : a novel
by Ali Benjamin
Upended by his wife’s newfound activism, a once-successful businessman begins questioning everything in the face of scandalous allegations and a naïve houseguest. By the author of the National Book Award finalist, The Thing About Jellyfish.
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The Windsor knot : a novel
by S. J. Bennett
The award-winning author of Love Song presents a crime series debut that finds 90-year-old Elizabeth II turning detective when MI5 bungles the murder case of a young Russian pianist at Windsor Castle.
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Cloudmaker
by Malcolm Brooks
Secretly building an airplane during the summer of Amelia Earhart’s final flight, a young tinkerer and an aspiring pilot discover a body that is wearing a rare Lindbergh flight watch. By the best-selling author of Painted Horses.
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In the quick : a novel
by Kate Hope Day
A young and ambitious woman astronaut’s life is upended by a fiery love affair that threatens the rescue of a 12-years-lost spacecraft and its crew of survivors. By the author of If, Then.
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The dating plan
by Sara Desai
A characteristically obedient Indian-American software engineer, determined to avoid a loveless arranged marriage by her traditional parents, enlists a childhood crush, required to marry in order to secure his inheritance, to be her decoy fiancé.
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Float plan
by Trish Doller
Hiring a sailor to navigate the boat trip she planned before her fiancé’s death, Anna begins healing from a broken heart in the wake of an unexpected romance. A debut adult novel by the author of Something Like Normal.
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The Bridgetower Sonata : Sonata Mulattica
by Emmanuel Dongala
In this vividly imagined historical novel, acclaimed Congolese author Emmanuel Dongala has focused his laser-sharp wit on the life and times of George Bridgetower, a young violin prodigy, who, at the age of nine, took the courtly world of 18th century Europe by storm - and surprise, given the youth's unusual origins: for George was of mixed-race parentage, known in the parlance of the day as a mulatto. Though his opportunistic father and de facto manager was Barbadan and dark-skinned, while his mother was a Polish handmaiden in the Viennese court, this young virtuoso, proclaimed as the "Black Mozart," was welcomed into the high society of Tout-Paris on the eve of the French Revolution.
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The women of Chateau Lafayette
by Stephanie Dray
A multi-generational saga based on true events is set in an extraordinary castle in the heart of France, where a schoolteacher, a socialite and a noblewoman question their roles and identities in the face of three major wars.
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Vera : a novel
by Carol Edgarian
Narrowly surviving the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, a bordello proprietor’s daughter bonds with an unlikely new family, from a Chinese clan and an orphan caregiver to tenor Enrico Caruso and tabloid celebrity Alma Spreckels.
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The girls are all so nice here
by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
Receiving ominous threats during a 10-year college reunion, Ambrosia and her best friend discover that they are being targeted by an unknown adversary who would exact revenge for a dangerous secret from their past.
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The house uptown
by Melissa Ginsburg
An emotional coming-of-age novel about a young girl who goes to live with her eccentric grandmother in New Orleans after the death of her mother.
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Accidentally Engaged
by Farah Heron
Determined to marry for love in spite of her parents’ interfering matchmaking schemes, Reena Manji pretends to be engaged to a neighbor in her father’s employ in the hopes of winning a couples’ cooking competition.
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Zorrie : a novel
by Laird Hunt
Cast adrift in the Depression-era West after the last of her relatives pass away, Zorrie survives by working at a radium processing plant before finding love, community and unexpected loss upon returning to her small Indiana hometown.
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Red Island House : a novel
by Andrea Lee
The National Book Award-nominated author of Lost Hearts in Italy presents a tale of love and identity that follows two decades in a marriage between an African-American professor and her wealthy Italian husband in tropical Madagascar.
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The blizzard party
by Jack Livings
A 6-year-old narrator recounts the catastrophic nor’easter that struck Manhattan on February 6, 1978 and a wild party on the Upper West Side attended by a man who planned to drown himself in the Hudson River.
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Too good to be true
by Carola Lovering
Accepting the proposal of an older, sophisticated man after a whirlwind courtship, a woman struggling with severe OCD throws herself into wedding plans before discovering her fiancé’s secret past and deceptive agenda.
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Central Park
by Guillaume Musso
Alice, a fierce and respected Parisian cop, wakes up on a Central Park bench with no memory of the night before, handcuffed to a complete stranger, a musician named Gabriel. Disoriented, dazed, and with someone else's blood on her shirt, Alice works furiously to reconnect the dots.
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Children of Chicago
by Cynthia Pelayo
When the Pied Piper returns, leaving his special calling card on the bodies of his brutally murdered victims, Detective Lauren Medina is torn between protecting the city she has sworn to keep safe and keeping a promise she made long ago to him.
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The fourth child : a novel
by Jessica Winter
Overcome by spiritual restlessness as her children gain independence, a devout Catholic adopts a child from Eastern Europe whose complicated needs estrange the woman from her biological children. By the author of Break in Case of Emergency.
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