Load Up Your Kindle With The 9 Best Books of March

When X, a celebrity, artist and iconoclast suddenly dies, her widow CM, wracked with grief, begins to write X’s biography. CM, not even sure of X’s origin story, uncovers hidden truths and secrets through her research, painting a portrait of a woman more cruel and deceptive than CM even imagined.

Vera, an older woman, lives a simple life above her tea shop in San Francisco, keeping tabs on her son through the Internet. She finds a dead man in her tea shop with a flash drive in his hand and instead of turning over the evidence to the police, she decides to solve this case, thinking she could do a better job. She begins to get closer to her customers to crack the case and realizes there’s probably a murderer among them. 

Tamsyn and Ed struggle financially and their teen daughter Scarlett is moody and defiant. When Scarlett lands in a coma after an accident, the couple are offered an amazing opportunity: move to Switzerland, get a bottomless spending account, and raise an artificial copy o their daughter. Their AI daughter is a delight in ways their real one never was, but then Scarlett awakens from her coma, leading to a sibling rivalry of sorts, as well as the revelation of who is behind this new life. 

Carla has lived a the life of her dreams for the past decade, a nomad traveling the world in her Jeep. Eamon is a digital cartographer who’s not enjoying his work and just got dumped. When Carla flies to Dublin for a wedding, Eamon picks her up at the airport and an epic road trip unfolds with love on the horizon.

This bubbly novel about three wealthy women from a Brooklyn family is fun escapism and a look into how the other half lives, through the eyes of an outsider. Reviewers are calling Jackson the Edith Wharton of our generation.

Three Filipina domestic workers in Singapore band together to solve a mystery when a fellow maid is arrested for killing her employer. Though they don’t know the accused, the women realize that their combined knowledge of Singapore’s elite families give them insider info and therefore an edge that no one else has. 

A woman is so obsessed with Moon, a Korean popstar, that she writes fanfiction where you can insert yourself into the story (Your/Name) and have a pretend whirlwind romance with Moon. When Moon suddenly retires, both the woman and her fanfiction travel from Belin to Seoul to track him down when they are faced with Moon at last. Does real life resemble art?

Sally is a writer on a Saturday night sketch comedy show, unlucky in love. When she sees Danny, one of her coworkers, hook up with a glamorous actress, she writes a sketch skewering him and the trope of dorky men landing beautiful women. But then she clicks with Noah, this week’s host and a pop star, and sparks fly. Can Sally break the rules and the double standard even if she isn’t living in a rom-com?

Ro’s life isn’t going well, from her strained relationship with her mother to her boyfriend leaving her to go to Mars. At her aquarium job, she befriends Dolores, a giant Pacific octopus and the last link to her missing marine biologist dad. When Dolores is sold to a wealthy investor, it sends Ro spiraling, relieving the hurts of her past and hopefully helping her how to finally move forward.