New Book Releases: March 15, 2022

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

A NOVEL OBSESSION, Caitlin Barasch. A young bookseller finds herself obsessively tracking and writing about her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend. “Propulsive storytelling and an irresistible narrator from a sharp new writer,” writes Kirkus in a starred review. Bookshop.

NINE LIVES, Peter Swanson. Nine strangers each receive a list featuring their name among eight others, and when people on the list become victims of violence, an FBI agent who is herself on the list becomes obsessed with finding the list’s true meaning. Publisher’s Weekly calls this “taut thriller” a “neat riff” on Agatha Christie. Bookshop.

THE CARTOGRAPHERS, Peng Shepherd. When her estranged cartographer father is found dead with a supposedly worthless map hidden in his desk, a woman embarks upon a dangerous journey to discover the map’s secret before a mysterious collector bent on destroying it catches up with her. “I DEVOURED The Cartographers,” writes Ruth Emmie Lang for Book of the…