March 2027 New Releases

 

 

Release date not yet known
A Taste of Memories by Alechia Dow (Feiwel and Friends) 
Emily Settle at Feiwel and Friends has bought A Taste of Memories, a cozy YA fantasy novel by Alechia Dow. The story follows a witch who allows people to relive their fondest memories by recreating recipes from their past at her magical tearoom, and a warlock who arrives on her doorstep haunted by a dangerous spirit that threatens his future. Publication is slated for spring 2027; Katelyn Detweiler at Jill Grinberg Literary Management sold North American rights.

Something Inside Me Knows by Malinda Lo (Dutton) - YA memior, not yet added to Goodreads.
Andrew Karre at Dutton has acquired Something Inside Me Knows by National Book Award winner Malinda Lo (Last Night at the Telegraph Club). Incorporating free verse, found poetry, and lyric essay, this debut memoir weaves a nonlinear story of immigration and identity, connecting the author's childhood in small-town Colorado in the 1980s to her grandmother's experiences in wartime China. Publication is scheduled for March 2027; Michael Bourret at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret negotiated the deal for world English rights.

March 1st
Sound Check by Jennifer Fenn (Roaring Brook Press) - moved from April 2022, then from July 2023, July 2024 and May 2025.

Win is a remarkably gifted percussionist. He's also profoundly deaf and plays the drums with his shoes off so he can feel the music through the soles of his feet. He has it all: he's in a band on the verge of breaking out, and he's madly in love with Tristen, their lead singer. The only thing he could ever want: to hear Tristen sing.

Sound Check is told in alternating narratives. The A side - Win decides to get a cochlear implant that will allow him to hear. The B side - Win and Tristen's love story from the day they first met to the day Win heard Tristen for the first time. And in the silence between the tracks? Heartbreak.

March 2nd
It Don't Come Easy by Eric Gansworth (Levine Querido) - moved from 2023, then from 2024.

March 16th
It Begins with the End by Samira Ahmed (Alvina Ling Books) - moved from September 2026.
Gripping and poignant, It Begins with the End is a profound novel-in-verse about memory, resistance, and hope during WWII– from New York Times bestselling author Samira Ahmed.

It begins with an execution.
 
April 1944.  Khursheed Khan, a young spy for the British Armed Forces, has been captured by the Nazis. She’s about to take her last breath. But to her, it’s not how her life ends that matters. It’s how she lived it.
 
What matters is the memory of her childhood in India and the lessons she learned from her resilient grandmother. What matters is her friends and family in Paris, whose lives are threatened by Nazi forces. What matters is the boy she wanted to love forever.
 
What matters is hope and resistance and the fight.
 
Written in moving and nuanced verse, It Begins with the End travels backward and forward through time as Kursheed recalls her life in the moments before it ends—reminding readers of all we must fight for when the worst of humanity threatens to steal everything and everyone we hold dear. 

March 23rd
The Enchanting Girl by Elizabeth Johnson (Knopf) - moved from 2025, July 2026 and February 2027, description not yet updated on Goodreads.
Cozy up to this enchanting debut fantasy about a young woman who is determined to break all the rules and learn to perform magic. She’ll just need to hide her activities from her nosy mother, a string of unwelcome suitors, and the young enchanter she manages to butt heads with whenever they see each other. And oh yes, she also needs to master the 438 spells required to pass the enchanter’s exam.

The island country of Lavinium guards a secret: its men have been able to perform magic for centuries–thanks to the fairies that inhabited the land before humans. Women were never allowed to learn the art, however. But it’s the modern age of 1935, and when Zelda Van Doren discovers that she has a gift for magic, she decides to defy convention and teach herself how to use it. Doing so means secretly learning the same spells as male students, all while eluding her marriage-minded mother and a string of suitors that includes one John Pendleton, in particular. Although her friends say Pendleton’s a catch, the young enchanter is clearly more interested in talking to Zelda’s grandfather than to her, which suits her just fine. Meanwhile, Zelda’s self-taught attempts at spellcasting are proving a miserable failure, until a fairy mysteriously emerges from the north, introducing Zelda to the one woman who might be able to help her. 

But even as Zelda struggles to control her gift, a long-simmering distrust between fairies and humans has bubbled to the surface, and it will be up to the young woman who has no business being an enchanter to work a little magic before it’s too late.


March 30th
Gravespell by James Trevino and Elizabeth Sagan (Sourcebooks Fire) - moved from April 2027.

WEDNESDAY ADDAMS meets ONE OF US IS LYING in this magic-filled thriller set at a modern school for wizards.

Alice Howe is an outcast at the elite Deepgrove Academy for Magic, which suits her just fine. But an unwelcome premonition means she’ll have to step out of the shadows. Because now she’s the only one at Deepgrove who knows two terrible things. In seven days her schoolmate Xena Wycomb, daughter of the American President of Magic, will be dead. And, if left unsolved, Xena’s murder will ignite a war.

Despite Alice’s warning, Xena meets her foreseen demise. But before she does, she points a finger at the prime suspects in her own murder, each of whom has a deadly secret to keep.

Christopher: The ex-boyfriend she cheated on and the heir to the biggest magical corporation in the world.
Delvy: The traitorous best friend who is embroiled in a scandal of her own.
Ben: Xena’s new boyfriend, a mage born without magic and the perfect scapegoat.
And of course, Alice herself.

Soon, the four of them are at the center of a huge media scandal, amid a very public murder investigation, which brings the modern wizarding world to the brink of war between those born with magic and those born without. And it all leads back to Xena.

Alice knows she can’t trust devilishly charming Christopher, picture-perfect Delvy, or morose Ben, but they all hold a piece of the puzzle. As suspicion falls on each of them in turn, Alice must find a way to uncover who killed Xena before the whole of magekind meets the same fate.