Spring is the season of renewal—and there’s no better way to refresh your mind than with a good book. Whether you’re lounging in the garden or curled up during a spring rain, these new releases will keep you turning pages. From uplifting memoirs to juicy fiction and can’t-miss thrillers, we’ve rounded up this season’s most buzz-worthy reads.
Time to swap your winter thrillers for something fresh, fierce, and full of feeling.
SAVING FIVE: A MEMOIR OF HOPE by Amanda Nguyen | Memoir
Saving Five details Amanda Nguyen’s healing journey and groundbreaking activism in the aftermath of her rape at Harvard. From one of the most influential activists (and now astronaut) of her time, Saving Five is at once a tribute to resilience, a celebration of healing through action, and a resounding cry to change the world. “I taped Never Never Never Give Up to my computer monitor to remind myself that I will not let him win,” and it went to Space with her.
FAGIN THE THIEF by Alison Epstein | Historical Fiction
Fagin the Thief is an imaginative retelling of Oliver Twist, taking one of literature’s greatest rogues, Fagin, and giving him a soul, a backstory, and a spotlight. Fagin is a captivating, complex, deeply human character adrift in a London that’s as richly described and grittily alive as Dickens’ own city. What the book Wicked did for the Wicked Witch of the West, Fagin the Thief does for Fagin. It is colorfully written and wickedly funny.
BROKEN COUNTRY by Clare Leslie Hall | Women’s Life Fiction
Set in a rural English village in the 1960s, the environment itself is a character in this story. The impossible choices and consequences when faced with the dilemmas these characters face make it a propulsive and heartbreaking read. Broken Country toggles between the past and present to explore the far-reaching legacy of first love. It is a story of love, loss, and the choices that shape our lives.
RAISING HARE by Chloe Dalton | Nonfiction
Raising Hare is a beautifully written book about a woman’s unexpected encounter with a newborn wild hare (a leveret) and her experience with its care. To return it to the wilderness, she learns to feed and care for the leveret. Instead, it becomes her constant companion. Raising Hare chronicles their journey together while also deeply diving into the lives and nature of hares and how history views hares in art, literature, and folklore.
BLOOD MOON by Sandra Brown | Crime Thriller
In Blood Moon, an embittered detective and an ambitious TV show producer race against the clock to prevent another young woman from disappearing before the next blood moon—only four days away. Sandra Brown has honed her craft masterfully, and the reader is captivated by her intense situations and highly detailed plot, which keeps pulling you in. This murder mystery is believable and reads like a true crime news story.
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