New Book Releases: March 8, 2022

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

THE LAST CONFESSIONS OF SYLVIA P., Lee Kravetz. A reimagining of the life of Sylvia Plath. “Kravetz makes good use of history’s rich material to spin a captivating story about some of the art world’s most notorious writers and thinkers,” writes Alexis Burling in the San Francisco Chronicle. Aggregated critical reviews, Bookshop.

LIKE A SISTER, Kellye Garrett. A hilarious, riveting thriller about a young New Yorker trying to find out how her estranged influencer half-sister died. The audiobook is brilliantly read by Bahni Turpin — I highly recommend. “The writing is sharp, the commentary wry, and Lena is irresistible,” writes Kirkus. Bookshop.

ELEUTHERIA, Allegra Hyde. A woman finds a book that promises it has the secret to fighting climate change, and when she flies to the island in the Bahamas where its author and his band of eco warriors lives, she discovers there’s something dark and sinister about the community. “Exquisite prose and keen insights…