New Book Releases: March 10, 2020

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

Because of an apparent inability to understand what day it is, last night — when I usually work up these weekly book releases — I did next week’s releases instead. I thought I wouldn’t be able to get this week’s out in time, and I’m cutting it close. But with COVID-19 putting a massive damper on authors’ ability to do publicity and events, and because so many of us are stuck at home with extra time on our hands to read, I think it’s especially crucial that this get published. It’s late, and I’m tired, so it’ll be a bit shorter than usual, and my personal taste will even more clearly dictate which books end up on the list this week. I hope you’ll forgive me — and buy a book, or three. Supporting authors while distracting yourself from the stressful circumstances outside our doors is a win-win, in my opinion.

MY DARK VANESSA, Kate Elizabeth Russell. One of the best books I’ve read in years. A startling, remarkable debut about an “affair” a teenager has with her English teacher, and her decades-long quest to unearth the truth of how that period of her life changed her. Read my review for GEN here. Aggregated critical reviews, Indiebound, Amazon.