New reads in March
If you liked ___, you'll like ____.
It's the formula that rules our entertainment choices with services and sites like Netflix and Goodreads. If you make a living picking out books for the library's collections, and recommend books to customers all the live-long day, you know this formula well. This month, I'll suggest 5 books that you'll like if you liked ____.
1. Dark Rooms by Lili Anolik
If you liked Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn, you'll like Dark Rooms by Lili Anolik.
Death sets the plot in motion: the murder of Nica Baker, beautiful, wild, enigmatic, and only sixteen. The crime is solved, and fast, but memory and instinct won't allow Nica's older sister Grace to accept the case as closed. Dropped out of college and living at home, working at the high school from which she recently graduated, Grace becomes increasingly obsessed with identifying and punishing the real killer.
2. Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum
If you liked Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James, you'll like Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum
One of the Huffington Post's most anticipated books of 2015, critics are saying that Hausfrau is like "Madame Bovary meets Fifty Shades of Grey." A striking debut novel of marriage, fidelity, sex and morality, featuring a fascinating heroine who struggles to live a life with meaning.
3. Strangler Vine by M.J. Carter
If you liked Sherlock Holmes mysteries, you'll like Strangler Vine by M.J. Carter.
Set in the untamed wilds of nineteenth-century colonial India, a dazzling historical thriller introducing an unforgettable investigative pair.
4. Fire Sermon by Francesca Haig
If you liked The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, you'll like Fire Sermon by Francesca Haig.
Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following a nuclear fire that has laid waste to civilization and nature. Though the radiation fallout has ended, for some unknowable reason every person is born with a twin.
5. The Prince by Vito Bruschini
If you liked The Godfather by Mario Puzo, you'll like The Prince by Vito Bruchini.
Through a spellbinding story and unforgettable characters, Bruschini depicts in visceral detail the dark intertwining roots of loyalty and betrayal, poverty and privilege, secrets and revelations that contributed to the rise of the Mafia in Sicily.
Coming in April! What You Left Behind by Samantha Hayes
Two years after a terrifying spate of teenage suicides, the remote village of Radcote has just begun to heal. Then a young man is killed in a freak motorcycle accident and a suicide note is found among his belongings. When a second boy is found dead shortly thereafter, the nightmare of repeat suicides once again threatens the community.
