Oprah’s bookclub: The many lives of mama love by Lara Love Hardin

First things first – Oprah has another pick! A memoir on lying, stealing, writing and healing.

No one expects the police to knock on the million-dollar, two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac housewife. But soccer mom Lara Love Hardin has been hiding a shady secret: she is funding her heroin addiction by stealing her neighbors’ credit cards. Ok, this sounds exciting! I’m in!

Reese’s book club: Anita De Monte laughs last by Xochitl Gonzalez

This book is a story of two women – Anita -a rising star on the art scene who dies in 1985 and Rachel – art history student in 1998 preparing her final thesis.

Switching narratives between the two women, Rachel story suddenly starts mirroring Anita’s when she starts dating an older art student.

I cannot wait to read this one! I loved her debut book – Olga dies dreaming.

GMA: Listen for the lie by Amy Tintera

What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if the truth doesn’t matter?

A popular true crime podcast looks into this murder and brings the killer back to the place where the crime was commited.

Sounds exciting enough… is this a – and then she finds out she didn’t do it type of book? I’m intrigued enough to find out! Count me in!

Read with Jenna: The great divide by Cristina Henriquez

An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there.

So it’s historical fiction, not a non-fiction, which kind of threw me here. But I remember vividly how the suez canal got blocked some years back and exactly what that meant for individuals like me. We rarly think about the importance of these canals, but they make a huge difference in our lives! So this might be a good book to read to remember that.

Memory piece by Lisa Ko

Moving from the predigital 1980s to the art and tech subcultures of the 1990s to a strikingly imagined portrait of the 2040s, Memory Piece is an innovative and audacious story of three lifelong friends as they strive to build satisfying lives in a world that turns out to be radically different from the one they were promised.

If you’ve read the Leavers and loved it like I did, then you know that this one is a must read!

Expected publication: March 19

Manila takes Manhattan by Carla de Guzman

Music producer Mon moves Manhattan and quickly falls in love with his neighbor Olivia – an actress. When they suddely end up working on the same movie project, the romance doesn’t turn out to be what they signed up for.

OMG OMG OMG OMG a filipino book! This is rare! As soon as I can get my hands on this, I’m going to devour it! It kinda reads like “you had me at hola” but I don’t care!

Expected publication: march 26

The hunter by Tana French

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die.

Honestly, I fell off the French train when she stopped writing the dublin murder squad. That used to be my favorite series! But I’m dying to get back into her writing, I just haven’t found the right book. This one is book number 2 in a series, where the searcher is number one. I might pick up these two and try!

Expected publication: march 5

Expiration dates by Rebecca Serle

Being single is like playing the lottery. There’s always the chance that with one piece of paper you could win it all. Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan for her. Every time she meets a new man , she receives a slip of paper with his name and a number on it—the exact amount of time they will be together. The papers told her she’d spend three days with Martin in Paris; five weeks with Noah in San Francisco; and three months with Hugo, her ex-boyfriend turned best friend. Daphne has been receiving the numbered papers for over twenty years, always wondering when there might be one without an expiration. Finally, the night of a blind date at her favorite Los Angeles restaurant, there’s only a Jake.

I loved Serle’s book “In five years” I though it was so fresh and original, and this sounds like it has potential to be another original one!

Expected publication: march 19

Birnam wood by Eleanor Catton

Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira stumbles on an answer, a way to finally set the group up for the long term: a landslide has closed the Korowai Pass, cutting off the town of Thorndike. Natural disaster has created an opportunity, a sizable farm seemingly abandoned.

A gripping psychological thriller from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries, Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its wit, drama, and immersion in character. A brilliantly constructed consideration of intentions, actions, and consequences, it is an unflinching examination of the human impulse to ensure our own survival.

This isn’t a new release, but it’s being released as a pocket, which counts to me! I’ve been wanting to read this for a while, something about it just appeals to me, but don’t ask me why!

Like happiness by Ursula Villarreal-Moura

A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a young woman’s destructive relationship with a legendary writer.

Set in Chile, Vega’s idyllic present is interrupted by a reporter who informs her that her previous partner – a famous writer has been accused of assulting another woman. As she tells her story, similiarites begin to unfold and Vega stars questioning her own past.

Expected publication: March 26

The truth about the devlins by Lisa Sottoline

TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm—except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can’t get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator.

But one night, TJ’s world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he’d confronted with proof of embezzlement. It seems impossible coming from John, the firstborn son and Most Valuable Devlin.

Expected publication: March 26

What happened to Nina? By Dervla McTiernan

Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family’s cabin in Vermont, and only Simon comes home.

Two families pitted against each other—one seeking justice in the disappearance of their daughter, the other desperate to clear their son’s name. How far will they go to find the truth? How far will they go to protect their son?

This books sounds amazing, but the cover is terrible!

Expected publicataion: march 26

How to solve your own murder by Kristen Perrin

For fans of Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club , an enormously fun mystery about a woman who spends her entire life trying to prevent her foretold murder only to be proven right sixty years later, when she is found dead in her sprawling country estate… Now it’s up to her great-niece to catch the killer. 

This is the first installment in what is going to be a Cosy mystery series.

Expected publication: March 26

Jaded by Ela Lee

A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previous night and must figure out what, exactly, happened—and how much she’s willing to put up with to make her way to the top of the corporate ladder.

Jade isn’t even my real name. Jade began as my Starbucks name, because all children of immigrants have a Starbucks name.

Dying to get my hands on it!

Expected publication: March 19