New Book Releases: March 9, 2021

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

PERFECT ON PAPER, Sophie Gonzales. A delightful, charming romcom about a bisexual high school student who runs a relationship advice service out of an abandoned locker. I loved this book! Read an excerpt here. Bookshop.

SURVIVING SAVANNAH, Patti Callahan. A historian investigates the lives and stories of the families who survived — and perished — on the Pulaski, also called the “Titanic of the South,” which sank in 1838. Bookshop.

SARAHLAND, Sam Cohen. Stories about identity, sexuality, and more, all starring characters named Sarah. Publisher’s Weekly calls it “wonderfully bizarre… a thought-provoking work, Cohen’s collection surprises and excites.” Read one of the book’s short stories here. Bookshop.

THE PLUM TREES, Victoria Schorr. A woman investigates what happened to her great-uncle after discovering he may have escaped Auschwitz. “Written with urgency, elegance, and grace, Shorr’s novel is a deeply moving account of a family’s suffering,” writes Kirkus. Bookshop.