Oprah’s bookclub: The tell by Amy Griffin

Expected publication: March 11

Genre: Memoir

pages: 275

In her search for the truth, to understand and begin to recover from buried childhood trauma, Griffin interrogates the pursuit of perfectionism, control, and maintaining appearances that drives so many women, asking, when, in our path from girlhood to womanhood, did we learn to look outside ourselves for validation? What kind of freedom is possible if we accept the whole story and embrace who we really are? With hope, heart, and relentless honesty, she points a way forward for all of us, revealing the power of radical truth-telling to deepen our connections—with others and ourselves.

GMA: The Sirens by Emilia Hart

Expected publication: April 1

Genre: Fantasy / Historical fiction

pages: 352

A story of sisters separated by hundreds of years but bound together in more ways than they can imagine

2019: Lucy awakens in her ex-lover’s room in the middle of the night with her hands around his throat. Horrified, she flees to her sister’s house on the coast of New South Wales hoping Jess can help explain the vivid dreams that preceded the attack—but her sister is missing. As Lucy waits for her return, she starts to unearth strange rumours about Jess’s town—tales of numerous missing men, spread over decades. A baby abandoned in a sea-swept cave. Whispers of women’s voices on the waves. All the while, her dreams start to feel closer than ever.

1800: Mary and Eliza are torn from their loving home in Ireland and forced onto a convict ship heading for Australia. As the boat takes them farther and farther away from all they know, they begin to notice unexplainable changes in their bodies.

Read with Jenna: Heartwood by Amity Gaige

Expected publication: April 1

Genre: Mystery /Fiction

pages: 320

In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters to her mother as she battles the elements and struggles to keep hoping.

At the heart of the investigation is Beverly, the determined Maine State Game Warden tasked with finding Valerie, who leads the search on the ground. Meanwhile, Lena, a seventy-six-year-old birdwatcher in a Connecticut retirement community, becomes an unexpected armchair detective. Roving between these compelling narratives, a puzzle emerges, intensifying the frantic search, as Valerie’s disappearance may not be accidental.

Reese’s bookclub: All that life can afford by Emily Everett

Expected publication: April 1

Genre: Contemporary fiction

pages: 384

Anna first fell in love with London at her hometown library—its Jane Austen balls a far cry from her life of food stamps and hand-me-downs. But when she finally arrives after college, the real London is a moldy flat and the same paycheck-to-paycheck grind—that fairy-tale life still out of reach.

Then Anna meets the Wilders, who fly her to Saint-Tropez to tutor their teenage daughter. Swept up by the sphinx-like elder sister, Anna soon finds herself plunged into a heady whirlpool of parties and excess, a place where confidence is a birthright. There she meets two handsome young men—one who wants to whisk her into his world in a chauffeured car, the other who sees through Anna’s struggle to leave her old life behind. It’s like she’s stepped into the pages of a glittering new novel, but what will it cost her to play the part?

Say you’ll remember me by Abby Jimenez

Expected publication: April 1

Genre: Romance

pages: 416

I don’t read a lot of romance, but when I do it’s Abby Jimenez. I got an ARC on this one and wrote a review you can read HERE.

If you’re new to Jimenez, she writes romance novels with her characters dealing with real limitations and mental health issues. In this one, Xavier is a vet who has opened a clinic in Minnesota and Sam who is moving to California to take care of her mother suffering with Dementia. A long distance relationship – will it work?

Swept Away by Beth O’Leary

Expected publication: April 1

Genre: Romance

pages: 384

Another one of my favorite romance authors is Beth O’Leary. She’s low on the cringe scale.

What if you were lost at sea…with your one-night stand?

Zeke and Lexi thought it would just be a night of fun. They had no intentions of seeing each other again. Zeke is only in town for the weekend to buy back his late father’s houseboat. Lexi has no time for dating when she needs to help take care of her best friend’s daughter.

Going back home with a stranger seems like a perfect escape from their problems. But a miscommunication in the dark, foggy night means no one tied the houseboat to the dock. The next morning, Zeke and Lexi realize all they can see is miles and miles of water.

This sounds so fun!

Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

Expected publication: April 22

Genre: Romance

pages: 384

I’m only including this because I know a lot of people love Emily Henry, I think she’s mid at best.

Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve.

Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (on a dead man) by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Expected publication: April 1

Genre: Cosy Mystery

pages: 336

I love Jesse Q Sutanto as a writer, but I was more of a fan of her Auntie series than I am of Vera Wong. And also, cosy mystery isn’t really my favorite genre.

But Vera is back, and this time she comes across a distressed young woman who is obviously in need of her kindly guidance. The young woman is looking for a missing friend. Fortunately, while cat-sitting at Tilly and Selena’s, Vera finds a treasure Selena’s briefcase. Inside is a file about the death of an enigmatic influencer—who also happens to be the friend that the young woman was looking for.

The Bright Years by Sarah Damoff

Expected publication: April 22

Genre: Fiction

pages: 288

Ryan and Lillian Bright are deeply in love, recently married, and now parents to a baby girl, Georgette. But Lillian has a son she hasn’t told Ryan about, and Ryan has an alcohol addiction he hasn’t told Lillian about, so Georgette comes of age watching their marriage rise and fall.

Told from three intimate points of views, The Bright Years is a tender, true-to-life novel that explores the impact of each generation in a family torn apart by tragedy but, over time, restored by the power of grace and love.

Audition by Katie Kitamura

Expected publication: April 8

Genre: Contemporary fiction

pages: 208

Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an elegant and accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, and young—young enough to be her son. Who is he to her – and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day – partner, parent, creator, muse – and the truths every performance masks, especially from those who think they know us best.

You killed me first by John Marrs

Expected publication: April 29

Genre: Thriller mystery

pages: 320

Julie Chan and Chloe CanHussen are identical twins, but the resemblance ends there. Seperated at a young age they rarely speak as Julia is a supermarket cashier and Chloe is a popular influencer.

When Julie finds her sisters lifeless body under mysterious circumstances, she seizes the opportunity to step into her life and assume her identity.

But our lives are rarely as perfect as they may seem on the outside, and Julie is about to find out that while the upside is extravagant, the downside may not be worth it.

Everything is tuberculosis by John Green

Expected publication: April 15

Genre: Western Romance

pages: 368

Rebel blue ranch book number 4 comes out in april. If you’re into this author you probably know this. I personally am not familiar, but I love these covers and I’m thinking of picking up one of her books in the near future.

In this book we get a small town second chance romance. A somewhat forced proximity since they end up living next door from each other.