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New & Notable Fiction March 2026 |
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Son of Nobody by Yann Martel (release date 3/31)From the author of the international bestseller Life of Pi, a retelling of the Trojan War from the perspective of two commoners: an ancient soldier and a modern scholar.
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Life: A Love Story by Elizabeth Berg (release date 3/17)As ninety-two-year-old Florence Flo Greene nears the end of her life, she writes a letter to Ruthie, the woman who grew up next door to her, describing the items Flo is leaving Ruthie in her will. But as it goes on, telling surprising stories about those little things Flo will leave behind (What could possibly be the worth of a rubber band kept in a matchbox tied up in red ribbon?), an unforgettable portrait of the life she has lived emerges.
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The News from Dublin: Stories by Colm Toibin (release date 3/31)From Colm Tóibín, "one of the world's best living literary writers" (The Boston Globe), comes a collection of nine short stories, many never-before-published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America—about the complexities of family, longing, loss, and love.
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Python's Kiss: Stories by Louise Erdrich (release date 3/24)Written over the past two decades, Louise Erdrich's story collection features a range of characters--a tribal newsletter editor whose son tells her a story that nothing in her experience can encompass, immigrant farmers whose tenuous hold on the earth, and sanity, is challenged, and ordinary people, bird lovers, artists, grade-school teachers, and romantics.
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All Carry by Gene Wojciechowski (release date 3/31)A recently laid-off golf reporter. A down-on-his-luck caddie. And a magical set of clubs once owned by Jack Nicklaus. In this funny, feel-good novel, bestselling author and former ESPN reporter Gene Wojciechowski gives us a pair of unlikely champions unlike any other.
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Daughter of Egypt by Marie Benedict (release date 3/24)Historical fiction specialist Marie Benedict returns with a sweeping tale of a young woman who unearths the truth about a forgotten Pharaoh--rewriting both of their legacies forever. In the 1920s, archeologist Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon of Highclere Castle made headlines around the world with the discovery of the treasure-filled tomb of the boy Pharaoh Tutankhamun. But behind it all stood Lady Evelyn Herbert--daughter of Lord Carnarvon--whose daring spirit and relentless curiosity made the momentous find possible.
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Down Time by Andrew Martin (release date 3/10)The author of the modern "slacker classics" Early Work and Cool For America returns with a funny novel about five neurotic intellectual friends growing older, if not always growing up.
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Westward Women by Alice Martin (release date 3/10)A debut that Joyce Carol Oates called "an audacious first novel to set beside Margaret Atwood" about a situation in which women across the country abandon their lives to head west toward the Pacific, as if the ocean were calling them home.
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Upward Bound by Woody Brown (release date 3/31)A fictional portrait of the residents and staff at an adult daycare center for the disabled community in Los Angeles, written by the first nonspeaking autistic graduate of UCLA.
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Ruins by Lily Brooks-Dalton (release date 3/31)Professor Ember Agni is a rising star in archeology, trying to balance an unfulfilling career in academia and a crumbling marriage, all while pursuing her true passion: unearthing a lost empire that no one else believes existed. Just as she's about to give up on the ambitious expedition she spent a decade trying to fund, a message arrives from overseas. A former student claims to have found something extraordinary-an artifact that hints at the forgotten world lying beneath history's tidy surface.
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