17 more SF/F books to read in March 2026

One of the things that I really enjoy about my day job is that one of my duties involves running a small bookstore. It's a fun challenge to keep things in stock, and to continually hunt down and search for new books that are coming out that are specifically about Vermont's history. Sometimes, that's searching through Amazon for new titles to pop up, or overstock sites like Book Depot to find remaindered copies of more popular titles. Sometimes, and most excitingly, I come across books randomly, like one that just crossed my desk this morning. It's called A Continued Clap of Thunder: Essays to Celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution, and it's published by the Bennington Museum.

Bennington is down in the southwestern corner of the state, and for a long time, it was a hotbed of revolutionary agitation, and was at one point, targeted by the British in 1777 as they drove down Lake Champlain to try and split the colonies in two. The Battle of Bennington lives large in Vermont's history and memory, even if the battle didn't actually take place here (American forces met the British a couple of miles over the border in New York.)

As we enter the 250th anniversary of the United States, there's a lot of scholarship into the history of the country, some unflinchingly patriotic, some critical, and most somewhere in between. But something that I find interesting about books like this – and others like Ken Burns and Geoffrey C. Ward's The American Revolution: An Intimate History – demonstrate that there's still a lot to learn about the history of the revolution and its ongoing impact, a quarter of a millennium later. There are all sorts of new interpretations, discoveries, and stones to overturn.

Okay, onto more futuristic topics. As always, you can find prior book roundup over on the Book List tag, and you can read the first list for March here. Here are 17 more books to check out for the rest of the month:

Aicha by Soraya Bouazzaoui (March 24th)

Portugal has extended its empire into Morocco, ruling with an iron fist, and Aicha is the daughter of a freedom fighter who's seen far too many of her people die in their cause. She's angry, and it's awoken something in her. As the fight intensifies, that something is about to be unleashed.

Library Journal gave it a starred review, saying that "readers will be swept up in the lyrical prose, compelling relationships, and timely commentary of Bouazzaoui’s debut rooted in Moroccan mythology."

Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman (March 3rd)

I've heard excellent things about Christopher Buehlan's novels The Blacktongue Thief and The Daughters War, both of which I've been meaning to get to for ages. (A third installment, The Thrice-Bound Fool, is coming out in October). In the meantime, his debut novel is getting a snazzy re-release from Tor Books, Between Two Fires.

Set in 1348, it follows a disgraced knight named Thomas who discovers a girl in what remains of a Norman village. She was the only survivor of the Black Death that swept through the village, and explained that it was only part of a greater disaster that was unfolding: a war between heaven and hell. She convinces him to take her across the land to Avignon, where she can confront the evil that's threatening everything.

Deep Black by Miles Cameron (March 24th)

Miles Cameron follows up his space opera Artifact Space with Deep Black, in we continue following the adventures of Marca Nbaro onboard the Greatship Athens. In this distant future, Greatships are massive, city-sized transports that hold human space together, and something has been targeting them.

She and her crew have to locate their enemy, when one of the aliens that they've been tracking decides to defect to humanity. Now, their mission is even more dangerous, and Marca has to figure out how to extract the defector and figure out its secrets before it's too late.

Beatrice the Sixteenth by Irene Clyde (March 31st)

This is the latest installment of Joshua Glenn / HiLobrow's Radium Age series, dedicated to unearthing science fiction from the turn of the 20th century. This book is a pioneering feminist utopian story that originally came out in 1909, and follows a British explorer named Mary Hatherley, who's kicked by a camel and wakes up to find herself in what seems to be an alternative version of Earth.

When she arrives in Armeria, she finds a society where the concept of gender is unknown, and she has to figure out her bearings. This one comes with an introduction by Lucy Sante.

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Honeysuckle by Bar Fridman-Tell (March 24th)

Bar Fridman-Tell reimagines the Welsh myth of Blodeuwedd in her debut novel Honeysuckle. Long ago, a boy named Rory grows up with only an older sister for company. Annoyed by him, she makes a playmate, a girl woven from flowers, and Rory's thrilled that he finally has a friend, but is soon distraught when he finds that she won't last long – she has to be rewoven at the end of the season, or she'll fall apart. As the two grow older, their friendship deepens, and Rory is desperate to try and find a way to keep her together and alive, all while Daye wants some control over her existence.

Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review, saying "Fridman-Tell uses her eerie fairy tale premise to masterfully unpick all of the squirmy ethical implications of the created-lover trope, spinning a story that is as powerful in its human aspects as in its magic."

Flaxman Low: Occult Detective by E. and H. Heron (March 31st)

This is a another new installment from The MIT Press's Radium Age series, and it's a collection of stories by mother-and-son team Kate O’Brien Ryall Prichard and Hesketh “Hex” Prichard, who published as “E. and H. Heron.

This collection of stories (published between 1898 and 1899) features Flaxman Low, literature's first occult detective, who uses science to figure out what's behind paranormal phenomena. Low is an Oxford-trained psychologist who takes on everything from ghosts to mummies to vampires to a mushroom mannequin, and it sounds like a ton of fun.

Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar (March 24th)

Amal El-Mohtar brings together some of her award-winning short stories, including the title story "Seasons of Glass and Iron," "The Green Book," "Madeleine," "And Their Lips Rang with the Sun," "The Truth About Owls," and quite a few more.

Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review, saying "There’s not a false note here.

Daughter of Crows by Mark Lawrence (March 24th)

Mark Lawrence kicks off a new series (The Kindness Academy) with Daughter of Crows. He introduces us to the Academy of Kindness, which is designed to create agents in the form of Furies – that can stand up to the gods if needed. Every year, a hundred are brought to its halls, and after a decade of training, only three will survive. Those who do are trained in ancient secrets and rituals, and are bound to uphold the old laws.

While only the desperate sell their children to the Kindness, Rue has decided to enter herself, and after a lifetime of bloodshed, she's finally found peace, only to have a war arrive on her doorstep.

John Mauro reviewed the book for Grimdark Magazine, saying that it's "grimdark to the core, but with a sense of literary maturity that the genre rarely sees outside of Anna Smith Spark."

Wretch or, The Unbecoming of Porcelain Khaw by Eric LaRocca (March 24th)

Simeon Link is overcome with grief after the death of her husband, and she seeks out help from a support group from The Wretches, who have an unconventional and addictive source of relief. When she's introduced to a figure named Porcelain Khaw, she has the opportunity to have one last, intimate moment with the people they loved – but it's an opportunity that comes with a steep price.

Library Journal awarded the book a starred review, calling it "a labyrinth of stories within stories," and that it's "a treasure chest of asides and casual musings that could be whole novels unto themselves."

No Man's Land by Richard K. Morgan (March 24th)

Richard K. Morgan sets his latest fantasy novel during the height of the First World War, in which England is suddenly overcome by dense forests. They've been brought by an ancient race of fae called the Huldu, who have decided that humanity's time on Earth should come to an end.

One veteran, Duncan Silver, has decided to take matters into his own hands and fight back, armed with iron and a quest to recover the children who the Huldu have been stealing. When he's hired by a mother to recover her daughter Miriam, he finds that she was a pawn in a much greater fight for dominance over the Earth.

Alexandra Pierce reviewed the novel for Locus Magazine, saying "Morgan’s prose is precise and evocative and gripping; Duncan’s story is compelling and intriguing."

Voidverse by Damien Ober (March 10th)

Damien Ober introduces us to a girl named Sinker, who escaped into the void a place of infinite nothingness, where people live on small lands called rocks each which have their own peculiar characteristics.

Most people are afraid of the void, but she isn’t. She spends her time running from her past jumping from place to place. When she comes to the aid of Emery and when her home is shortly thereafter destroyed, they set out to find a way to save the world, which seems to be collapsing.

Publishers Weekly says "combining impressive worldbuilding and thrilling action, including some fun twists and unexpected reveals, this is sure to please."

Jitterbug by Gareth L. Powell (March 3rd)

Gareth L. Powell is back with a new space opera, in which both Jupiter and Saturn have been destroyed, with something taking their remains and building a huge, habitable sphere in their place. A group of criminals escape capture by heading into the object, a bounty hunter named Copernicus Brown, his sentient spaceship Jitterbug, and his crew are tasked with hunting them down.

When they rescue a woman named Amber Roth, they find themselves the targets of attacks by some of the system's rich and powerful, who are trying to get their hands on a chip that she possesses. While those pieces fall into place, they also have to contend with an ancient presence coming into the solar system from the depths of space.

Enemy of My Enemy: A Daredevil Marvel Crime Novel by Alex Segura (March 24th)

I'm a big fan of Marvel's Daredevil comics and the Netflix adaptation (I'm about to start the new Born Again series on Disney+), so this new book from Alex Segura is right up my alley: a new crime novel about Daredevil.

In it, Matt Murdock gets reports that the Kingpin and a police officer have been killed, and Frank Castle – The Punisher – has turned himself in for the crime. While both of them off the streets would be good, Matt realizes that there's something wrong with the story that he's heard, and can't abide by someone going away for crimes they didn't commit. He ends up representing Castle in court, and has to figure out who was really behind the crime.

This one'll come just in time for the second season of Daredevil: Born Again, which debuts on the same day on Disney+.

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Steel Gods by Richard Swan (March 31st)

This is the second installment of Swan's Great Silence trilogy (it's preceded by Grave Empire), in which the nature of the Great Silence is now apparent. Nations have begun to fall to a mind plague, and Sova Ambassador Renata Rainer has been tasked with trying to save the world, traveling abroad to get help from her nation's enemies, while Lieutenant Peter Kleist is dispatched to the New East's forests to try and find answers. While this is happening, others are working to try and study the Great Silence for answers on this world and beyond, and time is running out.

Kirkus Reviews awarded it a starred review, saying "This is one wild, intricate ride: Grim, grotesque, vivid, thrilling, and with spot-on insights about our mundane reality."

All These Worlds by Dennis E. Taylor (March 24th)

Saga Press recently picked up Dennis E. Taylor's self-published Bobiverse series, in which a guy named Bob froze himself, only to be awoken in a dystopian future and who subsequently gets his brain uploaded into a self-replicating probe and shot out into space.

In this third installment (preceded by We Are Legion and For We Are Many), the many Bobs have been out in the galaxy for nearly a century, seeding colonies to propagate humanity throughout the universe. But while they've expanded, some of humanity's deeper grudges and rivalries persist, and when Bob accidentally provokes a dangerous alien civilization, Bob knows that after a disastrous first encounter, a second has to go well to ensure humanity will continue to exist. But rallying the other Bobs is harder than it sounds, and he's going to have to convince them to help save humanity.

Nobody's Baby by Olivia Waite (March 10th)

Olivia Waite follows up her science fiction mystery novella Murder by Memory, in which we were introduced to Dorothy Gentleman, a spaceship detective. In this new cozy adventure, Dorothy is trying to figure out who left a baby on her nephew‘s doorstep — a baby that shouldn’t exist.

Trish Matson reviewed the book for the Skiffy and Fanty show, saying "by turns efficient and thoughtful, it occasionally sparkles with nifty metaphors and wonderful phrasing."

Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy by Jo Walton and Ada Palmer (March 24th)

Jo Walton and Ada Palmer come together for this book of essays about the history and state of science fiction and fantasy, examining how it's created and consumed, and examining everything from the history of publishing, the relationship between readers and writers, what distinguishes the genres, and how SF/F creators can learn from outside influences.

Library Journal gave the book a starred review, calling it "highly recommended for collections of literature studies, particularly but not limited to studies of SF and fantasy."

What books catch your eye this round? Are there any that you've added to your TBR?