New season, new reads! March is the perfect time to start slaying that TBR pile—and we’ve got the ultimate book club picks to help you dive right in. Whether you’re nestled into your favourite coffee shop, picking a new reading nook, or heading out for a day in the park, these titles are your perfect companions.
From inspiring memoirs to unputdownable fiction and everything in between, there’s something to spark every reader’s interest. Let our lively book club hosts, Vic and Lee, guide you through this month’s standout reads—they’re perfect for summer and will set the tone for an amazing reading year ahead.
Keep scrolling to explore our March book club selections, and grab your copies in-store or online at QBD Books. Let’s dive in!
Fiction Book of the Month
The Wolf Tree by Laura McCluskey
QBD’s March Book of the Month is Laura McCluskey’s The Wolf Tree—a gripping debut crime thriller set in an isolated Scottish island.
On a small island off the coast of Scotland, an isolated community is grieving. Eighteen-year-old Alan Ferguson was found at the foot of the lighthouse – an apparent suicide.
Georgina Lennox and Richard Stewart are sent to investigate. A raging storm keeps them trapped on the island for five days. As they question the island’s inhabitants, they discover a village filled with superstition and shrouded in secrets.
But someone wants those secrets to stay buried. At any cost.
Best, First, and Last by Amy Matthews
All of the women in Heather Russo’s family are miserable. Her grandmother is grieving her late husband, her mother is getting a divorce and she is personally stuck in a rut. Heather’s grandmother books them all a girl’s trip to hike the Inca Trail.
Reluctantly, Heather starts to learn long-held family secrets on the trail and parts of herself she didn’t know existed. She also meets the charming Owen, and as their affection starts to bloom and their time together grows shorter – Heather needs to decide what she really wants.
A perfect cosy, heart-warming and gorgeous read about family, falling in-love and finding yourself.
Iron & Embers by Helen Scheuerer
Wren Embervale, alchemist-turned assassin, finds solace in seeking vengeance for the death of her friends. Her kingdom is plagued with dark magic and Wren is offered a place at the alchemy academy to help find a cure for this insidious power. To earn her spot she must complete a gruelling set of trials, but her biggest threat might come from the man assigned to protect her. Their shared history ignites a simmering tension that threatens to consume them both…
This hotly anticipated romantasy read is not one to be missed!
The Oasis by Anne Buist & Graeme Simsion
By the bestselling authors of The Glass House, Anne Buist & Graeme Simsion, comes the second novel in the ground-breaking Menzies Mental Health series
Trainee psychiatrist Doctor Hannah Wright has only just got her head above water in the acute psychiatric ward at Menzies Hospital when she’s thrown into the deep end of the outpatient clinic.
Her patients’ health issues range from OCD to ice addiction, and childhood abuse – they all come to The Oasis to either face their demons, heal their past or start a new life.
The Oasis is deeply poignant and eloquently written, this title is a must-have for your March reading list.
Sisters Murder Investigations by James Patterson and Candice Fox
Patterson’s greatest crime-solving team since the Women’s Murder Club is the Bird Sisters.
Rhonda and Barbara “Baby” Bird are half-sisters—and full partners in their Los Angeles detective agency. They agree on nothing. Rhonda, a former attorney, takes a by-the-book approach to solving crimes, while teenage Baby relies on her street smarts. But when they take a controversial case of a loner whose popular wife has gone missing, they’re accused of being PIs who can’t tell a client from a killer.
Fight the system. Fight for the underdog. Fight for the truth. If they can stop fighting each other long enough to work together.
