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New Literary Fiction Book Recommendations | March 2022

New Literary Fiction Book Recommendations | March 2022

Looking to add to your literary fiction list this February? Check out these new novels by bestselling authors Lauren Lee Merewether, Joshua Senter, Roberta Kagan, Lee Cole, Suzette D. Harrison, Jennifer E. Smith. Enjoy your new literary fiction book recommendations!


The Curse of Beauty (Ancient Legends Book 1)

by Lauren Lee Merewether

Release Date: February 15, 2022

A gripping historical drama—the origin of Greek mythology’s Medusa is uniquely explored and reimagined in this epic work of historical fiction that takes us back to Ancient Greece during the rise of the Mycenaeans.

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Still The Night Call

by Joshua Senter

Release Date: December 31, 2021

Still The Night Call is about Calem Dewayne Honeycutt, a thirty-two-year-old Missouri dairy farmer of few words. But just because he’s, quiet doesn’t mean he’s simple. In fact, Calem’s internal voice eloquently leads us through his wondrous yet tortured past, his fears for the future of his beleaguered rural world, and his carefully laid plans to remedy the vicious Night Call that haunts his present.

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The Children’s Dream (The Auschwitz Twins Series Book 1)

by Roberta Kagan

Release Date: March 1, 2022

Sometimes Dreams Come True… And so do nightmares. When Naomi’s daughter, Perle, starts to have nightmares about smokestacks and creepy doctors, Naomi is struck with terror – the terror of a mother who fears her daughter is in mortal danger. Naomi believes dreams are glimpses into the future. She, too, has had dreams of foreign soldiers with a strange flag invading her tiny village. She knows in her heart that evil is brewing.

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Groundskeeping

by Lee Cole

Release Date: March 1, 2022

An indelible love story about two very different people navigating the entanglements of class and identity and coming of age in an America coming apart at the seams—this is “an extraordinary debut about the ties that bind families together and tear them apart across generations” (Ann Patchett, best-selling author of The Dutch House).

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The Dust Bowl Orphans

by Suzette D. Harrison

Release Date: February 7, 2022

The dust cloud rolls in from nowhere, stinging our eyes and muddling our senses. I reach for my baby sister and pull her small body close to me. When the sky clears, we are alone on an empty road with no clue which way to go…

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The Unsinkable Greta James

by Jennifer E. Smith

Release Date: March 1, 2022

It’s here in this unlikeliest of places—at sea, far from the packed city venues where she usually plays and surrounded by the stunning scenery of Alaska—Greta will finally confront the choices she’s made, the heartbreak she’s suffered, and the family hurts that run deep. In the end, she’ll have to decide what her path forward might look like—and how to find her voice again.

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