New Book Releases: March 1, 2022

Each week, I’ll catalog the biggest and most exciting adult and YA fiction — and the occasional nonfiction — coming out that Tuesday.

GALLANT, V. E. Schwab. A young girl who spent most of her childhood at a boarding school returns home and discovers a wall where a distorted shadow version of reality exists on the other side. “The gripping writing and effective incorporation of horror elements, including haunting, inky artwork, are satisfyingly spine-tingling,” writes Kirkus in a starred review. Bookshop.

SUNDIAL, Catriona Ward. Worried about her troubled daughter whom, she fears, harbors a mysterious darkness, a woman takes the child home to the Mojave Desert where she grew up, a trip that threatens to end in violence. “A lyrical, twisty tale,” writes The Guardian. Bookshop.

CHECKOUT 19, Claire-Louise Bennett. A schoolgirl comes of age and discovers a love for the written word in a working class town outside London. From the author of the acclaimed short story collection Pond. “So many of Bennett’s lines are worth quoting in full,” writes Vanity Fair. Aggregated critical reviews…