Hey Y’all! Apologies for the lateness! I promise I didn’t forget y’all though! March is here and I’m excited because it’s my birthday month *insert wide-eye emoji*! It is just our bookish luck that this month is a good pub month! I’m also excited about quite a few of the books coming out this month as well!

It’s a celebration y’all!

Before we get into this list, just make sure you double check the dates of your anticipated books (most were checked very recently but there are so many last minute changes that happen)! So let’s get into it!

  • Ace and the Misfits by Eddie Kawooya *MG* 3/1
  • The Reluctant Heartthrob by Jackie Lau *adult* 3/5
  • This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan *adult series* 3/5
  • Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange *adult* 3/5
  • The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste 3/5
  • The Encanto’s Daughter by Melissa De La Cruz 3/5
  • Women Of Good Fortune by Sophie Wan *adult* 3/5
  • Summer At Squee by Andrea Wang *MG* 3/5
  • Star Wars The High Republic: Defy The Storm by Justina Ireland & Tessa Gratton 3/5
  • Piano Wants To Play by Colleen Kong-Savage *PB* 3/5
  • Welcome To Forever by Nathan Tavares 3/5
  • Clever Creatures Of The Night by Samantha Mabry 3/5
  • We Need To Talk About Death by Sarah Chavez & Annika Le Large 3/5
  • The Cave: A Secret Underground Hospital And One Woman’s Story Of Survival in Syria by Amani Ballour & Rania Abouzeid *adult* 3/5
  • Sona and the Golden Beasts By Rajani LaRocca *MG* 3/5
  • A Rainbow In Brown by Pavonis Giron *PB* 3/5
  • Warrior On The Mound by Sandra W. Headen *MG* 3/5
  • One Big Open Sky by Lesa Cline-Ransome *MG* 3/5
  • Minecraft: Beginner’s Guide by Mojang AB *MG* 3/5
  • Never Been Better by Leanne Toshiko Simpson *adult* 3/5
  • Blue Stars: Mission One: The Vice Principle Problem by Kekla Magoon, Cynthia Leitich Smith & ill. By Molly Murakami *MG* 3/5
  • Starry Field: A Memoir Of The Lost History by Margaret Juhae Lee *adult* 3/5
  • Anita De Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez *adult* 3/5
  • The Great Divide by Cristina Henriquez *adult* 3/5
  • Paper Dragons: A Fight For The Hidden Realm by Siobhan McDermott *MG* 3/5
  • The First State Of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly *MG* 3/5
  • Gigi Shin Is Not A Nerd by Lyla Lee *MG* 3/5
  • 36 Ways Of Writing A Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le *adult* 3/5
  • RunDisney: The Official Guide To Racing Around The Parks by Scott Douglas *adult* 3/5
  • Pinata by Leopoldo Gout, Translated by Martha Castro Lopez *adult* 3/5
  • Thunder Song Essays by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe *adult* 3/5
  • The House of Hidden Meanings by RuPaul *adult* 3/5
  • Can’t We Be Friends: A Novel of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe by Denny S. Bryce & Eliza Knight *adult* 3/5
  • Hope Is A Rainbow by Hoda Kotb *PB* 3/5
  • Zo And The Invisible Island by Alaka Pilgrim *MG Sequel* 3/7
  • The Doomsday Date by Faridah Abike-Iyimide 3/7
  • Can You GET Jellyfish In Space? by Dr. Sheila Kanani, ill. by Liz Kay *MG* 3/7
  • Marv And The Ultimate Superpower by Alex Falase-Koya *ER* 3/7
  • Onyeka And The Secret Superhero by Tola Okogwu *MG* 3/7
  • The Sacrifice: When Transition Looks Like Chaos by Youmie Jean Francois *adult* 3/7
  • My So-Called Bollywood Life by Nisha Sharma *Re-Release* 3/11
  • Not Your Average Jo by Grace K. Shim 3/12
  • Pride And Joy by Louisa Onome *adult* 3/12
  • Cece Rios And The Queen Of Brujas by Kaela Rivera *MG Sequel* 3/12
  • Six Truths And A Lie by Ream Shukairy 3/12
  • Light In Gaza edited by By Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, and Mike Merryman-Lotze *adult* 3/12
  • Red Queen by Juan Gomez-Jurado *adult* 3/12
  • Black Wolf by Juan Gomez-Jurado *adult sequel* 3/12
  • The Toltec Legacy: Wisdom To Live By In The New Dawn by Michelle Rodriguez & Sergio Magana *adult* 3/12
  • Those Beyond The Wall by Micaiah Johnson 3/12
  • Green Frog by Gina Chung *adult* 3/12
  • Circle of Love By Monique Gray Smith, Ill. by Nicole Neidhardt *PB* 3/12
  • Victim by Andrew Boryga *adult* 3/12
  • Infinity Kings by Adam Silvera *sequel* 3/12
  • Butterfly On The Wind by Adam Pottle & Ziyue Chen *PB* 3/12
  • When The Rain Came Down by Leslie Helakoski & Keisha Morris *PB* 3/12
  • Not Your China Doll by Katie Gee Salisbury *adult* 3/12
  • The Inhumans And Other Stories edited & Translated by Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay *adult* 3/12
  • Just Another Epic Love Poem by Parisa Akhbari 3/12
  • Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea by Leah Hunt-Hendrix & Astra Taylor *adult* 3/12
  • Bros by Carole Boston Weatherfood, ill. By Reggie Brown *PB* 3/12
  • The Blue Bowl by Flo Leung *PB* 3/12
  • The Little Regent by Yewande Daniel-Ayoade, ill. By Ken Daley *PB* 3/12
  • La Mala Suerte Is Following Me/La Mala Suerta Me Sigue by Ana Siqueira *MG* 3/12
  • The Manicurist’s Daughter by Susan Lieu *adult* 3/12
  • You Are A Little Seed by Sook-Hee Choi *PB* 3/19
  • Mahogany: A Little Red Riding Hood Tale by JaNay Brown-Wood, ill. By John Joven *PB* 3/19
  • Lucky Dogs by Joowon Oh *PB* 3/19
  • A Midnight Puzzle by Gigi Pandian *adult* 3/19
  • I’ll Conjure For You by Charish Reed *adult* 3/19
  • Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Abike-Iyimide 3/19
  • Calling Of Light by Lori M. Lee *sequel* 3/19
  • Far From The Tree by Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant *adult* 3/19
  • Della’s House Of Style by Rochelle Alers, Donna Hill, Felicia Mason & Francis Ray *adult* 3/19
  • Rules For Rule-Breaking by Talia Tucker 3/19
  • The Waves Take You Home by Maria Alejandra Barrios Velez *adult* 3/19
  • Hathor And The Prince by J.J. McAvoy *adult series* 3/19
  • A Year Of Last Things [Poems] by Michael Ontaatje *adult* 3/19
  • The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill *adult* 3/19
  • In A Not So Perfect World by Neely Tubati Alexander *adult* 3/19
  • Nearly All The Men In Lagos Are Mad by Damilare Kuk *adult* 3/19
  • The Last Bloodcarver by Vanessa Le 3/19
  • The Weavers of Alamaxa By Hadeer Elsbai *adult* 3/19
  • Memory Piece by Lisa Ko *adult* 3/19
  • The Morningside by Téa Obreht *adult* 3/19
  • Mother Island: A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico by Jamie Figueroa *adult* 3/19
  • James By Percival Everett *adult* 3/19
  • Stitches by Hirokatsu Kihara, ill. by Junji Ito 3/26
  • Icarus by K. Ancrum 3/26
  • Off The Air by Christina Estes *adult* 3/26
  • The Perfect Guy Doesn’t Exist by Sophie Gonzales 3/26
  • Dead Girls Walking by Sami Ellis 3/26
  • The Ikaria Way by Diane Kochilas *adult* 3/26
  • Maya’s Laws Of Love by Alina Khawaja *adult* 3/26
  • The Emperor And The Endless Palace by Justinian Huang *adult* 3/26
  • Star Wars: The High Republic: Escape from Valo by Daniel Jose Older; Alyssa Wong *MG* 3/26
  • The Good, The Bad and The Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto *adult series* 3/26
  • A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda *adult* 3/26
  • Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care and Desire by Alice Wong *adult* 3/26
  • Shark Princess: Surfin’ Sharks by Nidhi Chanani *ER* 3/26
  • Age Of Revolutions by Fareed Zakaria *adult* 3/26
  • Wicked Problems: How To Engineer A Better World by Guru Madhavan *adult* 3/26
  • Manila Takes Manhattan by Carla de Guzman *adult* 3/26
  • Like Happiness by Ursula Villarreal-Moura *adult* 3/26
  • There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib *adult* 3/26
  • Bunyan And Henry Or, The Beautiful Destiny by Mark Cecil *adult* 3/26
Me, when I realized I had slacked on updating my Mac h Pub day list & had to play catch up to create this post so it was somewhat accurate!

So I’ve gotten a few ARCs for titles coming out this month and they are:

  • This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan *adult series*
  • The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste
  • The Encanto’s Daughter by Melissa De La Cruz
  • Women Of Good Fortune by Sophie Wan *adult*
  • Summer At Squee by Andrea Wang *MG*
  • Not Your Average Jo by Grace K. Shim
  • Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Abike-Iyimide
  • Rules For Rule-Breaking by Talia Tucker 3/19
  • The Last Bloodcarver by Vanessa Le
  • The Perfect Guy Doesn’t Exist by Sophie Gonzales
  • Maya’s Laws Of Love by Alina Khawaja *adult*
  • The Emperor And The Endless Palace by Justinian Huang *adult*

Of These, I have read:

  • This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan *adult series*
  • Currently Reading: The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste
And it’s been kicking my ass and delaying my reading but I AM reading!

What are you all excited about this month?! I may have missed some books that are scheduled to come out this month so please do let me know if I missed any authors of color in the comments or on social media on Instagram @bookishgirlmagic (look out for lives and the occasional post), Twitter (I still refuse to call it a single letter) @bookishgrlmagic, Threads @bookishgirlmagic (I’m slowly increasing my posting on there) and Clubhouse @bookishgrlmagic where you can find me mostly in book centered clubs/rooms (mostly on Tuesdays and Fridays) to chat with me. Also let me know if there are any books that YOU are excited about! I wanna know! Oh and please subscribe to this blog if you haven’t already because it makes me feel like I have the best bookish luck! And to those who are subscribed, you have my continued thanks, I really truly appreciate y’all! Sending y’all bookish love and wishing you happy reading always!

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I’m reader who has a fierce love for books written by authors of color & belief in the importance of supporting them! My mission is to amplify their voices and work so this generation and all the others after them will have literature that will reflect them.

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