The Best Book Club Books Out in March

In the late ‘80s, rising art world star Anita de Monte is found dead in New York City, and her death quickly fades into yesterday’s news. But when third-year art student Raquel — who feels like an outsider amongst the other, mostly white and privileged students — stumbles upon Anita’s story, she finds the slain woman’s story feels eerily similar to her own.

From the author of Erasure — what the new movie American Fiction was based on — comes a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but from Jim’s point of view. Jim is an enslaved man who learns he’s about to be sold to a white man in New Orleans, and so hides out until he can think of something that’ll keep him from being separated from his family. Then he meets Huck Finn — running from his own problems — and the two embark on their familiar story, this time with Jim’s full humanity on display.

Feminist thought leader Judith Butler’s latest is a look at how gender has become front and center to right-wing issues. They examine how this anti-gender movement works with similarly right-wing exacerbated fears surrounding things like critical race theory and migration to undermine the fight for equality.

Hanif Abdurraqib is the National Book Award-nominated author of A Little Devil in America, and here he aims his poetic eye to basketball. In a personal account, he explores one of America’s favorite pastimes by looking at the history of the sport, who makes it and who doesn’t, and, obviously as an Ohio native, LeBron James.