Starred Reviews Releasing This Week

March 2, 2026 through March 8, 2026
All the books to receive starred reviews in PW that are hitting bookstore shelves this week.
FICTION

Lady Tremaine

Rachel Hochhauser. St. Martin’s, $29 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-39634-1

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Stories: The Collected Short Fiction

Helen Garner. Pantheon, $27 (208p) ISBN 978-0-553-38747-6

Complete Review »

Now I Surrender

Álvaro Enrigue, trans. from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. Riverhead, $30 (464p) ISBN 978-0-593-08407-6

Complete Review »

An Arrow in Flight

Mary Lavin. Scribner, $20 trade paper (432p) ISBN 9-781-6680-9871-4

Complete Review »

MYSTERY/THRILLER

Ruby Falls

Gin Phillips. Atlantic Crime, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-0-8021-6692-0

Complete Review »

The Politician: A DS Cross Thriller

Tim Sullivan. Atlantic Crime, $17 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-8021-6773-6

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A Bad

Frances Crawford. Soho Crime, $28.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-64129-785-1

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ROMANCE/EROTICA

Better Than a Duke

Suzanne Enoch. Bramble, $18.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-33120-5

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SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR

Estela

René Peña-Govea. Quill Tree, $19.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-342995-6

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NONFICTION

Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women

Sarah Ruden. Liveright, $29.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-324-07590-5

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No One’s Coming: The Rogue Heroes Our Government Turns to When There’s Nowhere Else to Turn

Kevin Hazzard. Grand Central, $30 (336p) ISBN 978-0-306-83518-6

Complete Review »

Churn: The Tension That Divides Us and How to Overcome It

Claude M. Steele. Liveright, $29.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-324-09344-2

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CHILDREN'S

Bartleby

Matt Phelan. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-3743-9355-7

Complete Review »

Loops

Jashar Awan. Simon & Schuster, $19.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-6659-7494-3

Complete Review »

Taking Turns with Turtles: A Rescue Story

Shari Becker, illus. by Brittany Lane. Groundwood, $19.99 (36p) ISBN 978-1-77946-012-7

Complete Review »

Her Hidden Fire (Her Hidden Fire #1)

Cliodhna O’Sullivan. Viking, $22.99 (448p) ISBN 979-8-217-04050-6

Complete Review »

Skating Wilder

Brandon Dumais, illus. by AJ Dungo. Flying Eye, $21.99 paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-913123-20-8

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Lies We Tell About the Stars

Susie Nadler. Dutton, $19.99 (304p) ISBN 979-8-217-00451-5

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Honor Flight: Celebrating America’s Veterans

Jeff Gottesfeld, illus. by Matt Tavares. Candlewick, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5362-3015-4

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Phoenix (Ride On #1)

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. Dial, $17.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-593-85986-5

Complete Review »

Goldfinches

Mary Oliver, illus. by Melissa Sweet. Viking, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-593-69241-7

Complete Review »

I Am Here

Kim Hyo-eun, trans. from the Korean by Aerin Park. Scribble US, $12.95 (18p) ISBN 978-1-964992-41-9

Complete Review »

Dragon Girl and the Awakened Flames (Dragon Girl #1)

Jenny Moore. Sourcebooks, $16.99 hardcover (352p) ISBN 978-1-4642-5404-8; $9.99 paper ISBN 978-1-4642-6629-4

Complete Review »

The Ruins Beneath Us

Sasha E. Sloan. Disney Hyperion, $20.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-368-11751-7

Complete Review »

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