Which are the Books to read in March 2025? TRa novels, Autoftion, poems, here the selection of the volumes that we liked most in the last month and perfect to welcome spring. The plus? A free correspondence – sound, literary, musical, visual – called Sonar for each volume.
The day of the bee by Paul Murray
(Einaudi, pages 664, € 22; trad. Tommaso Pincio)
They called it “the Irish friar” and in fact this novel, which climbed every ranking, recalls both Corrections That Freedom. Set after the 2008 crisis, it revolves around the Barnes whose car dealership is in crisis. Alternating the prospects of Parents Dickie (who is building an anti-apocalypse bunker) and Imelda (“his” part, beautiful, recalls the flow of Molly Bloom) and their children Cass (on the border between superiors and adult life) and PJ (golden boy), is a brilliant fresco on the family, tragicomic (that tattoo on the butt) and unforgettable.
* Sonar: Zombie of the Cranberries (1994), song
The anniversary by Andrea Bajani
(Feltrinelli, 128, € 16)
«The last time I saw my mother accompanied me to the door to greet me. After that he waited to see me disappear in the funnel of the stairs before closing it. […] Ten years ago, that day, I saw my parents for the last time. Since then I have changed phone number, home, continent, I pulled on an impregnable wall, I put a middle ocean. It was the best years of my life ». It is the book that everyone speaks at this moment because of the scandalous question that takes it of the first on the last page: what does it mean to stop seeing, definitively, your parents? It takes courage, to answer (and also to write it).
* Sonar: Mother by John Lennon (1970), song
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
(Nn, pages 176, € 18; trad. Gioia Guerzoni)
Awarded with the Booker Prize 2024, follows the arc of a day inside the International Space Station. Inside six astronauts are locked up, two women and four men: two Russians, Roman, the commander, and Anton who wants to leave his wife, then the Japanese who learns about the death of the mother, the British in the whose brother has the influence, the American Shaun to whom, instead, his wife Manca and Pietro who thinks of Emilia Romagna. Orbital It is a novel without plot, beautiful and painful. In the era, frightening, in which we entered, this book renounces the apocalypse card and launches a love letter to our wounded planet. In his speech of acceptance of the Booker, Harvey said that “looking at the earth from space is a bit like a child who looks in a mirror and realizes for the first time that the person in the mirror is he himself. What we do to the earth, to life on earth, do it to ourselves ».
* Sonar: The geopolitics of space by Giampaolo Musumeci and Emilio Cozzi (Radio24), Podcast
Rocannon’s world of Ursula K. Le Guin
(Mondadori, pages.180, € 12.50; trad. Riccardo Valla)
«I write science fiction, and science fiction does not concern the future. I don’t know about the future more than you know, probably less. […] I am not predicting, nor prescribing. I’m describing. I am describing some aspects of psychological reality in the way a novelist can do, that is, by inventing elaborate and detailed lies ». The republication, in a sparkling Uniform edition in the catalog of the Oscar Mondadori, of his main works, is the perfect opportunity to rediscover Ursula K. Le Guin (who died in 2018), an extraordinary science fiction writer, but also teacher of thought (recovered his essays published by Sur, Dreams are explained by themselves). In Rocannon’s world – First book of the Ecumene cycle, the terrestrial ethnologist Rocannon, in a study mission for the League of all worlds, reaches a planet populated by rebels that destroy the spaceship, and thus begins a long journey that will take him where he would never have imagined – you will also find an unpublished introduction of the author.
* Sonar: The stories of Terramare by Goro Miyazaki (Netflix, 2006), Film
Do you remember Sarah Leroy? by Marie Vareille
(Rizzoli, pages 328, € 18; trad. By Sara Arena)
«We all have a part of responsibility in what happened to Sarah Leroy. I too participated, although it took twenty years to understand and accept the role I have played in this story. I will not reveal my identity, this is not my purpose and, in any case, I don’t want to think that I tell the truth to exonerate me, to accuse the others instead of me, or even just to show me. I believe that the truth should be written somewhere. For us, for Sarah, and perhaps for you. Because finally, regardless of any forgiveness, we can coexist with what we have done. Although everyone probably think the opposite, at the time we had a morality. Not the kind of morality that prevented us from lying to the police, to our families, or ourselves. ” Crime lovers will go crazy for the story of Sarah, Angélique and Fanny, with disappearance, unsolved mysteries, returns and personal investigations.
* Sonar: How good girls kill (Netflix, 2024), TV series
Gothic Salentino by Marina Pierri
(Einaudi, pages 240, € 17.50)
We forget everything we have heard in recent years – the Overurism, the nightlife, the chaos, the DJs, the Mambo: Pierri’s Salento is a whole other world. There are a haunted villa, the fourth residence, and a protagonist, Filomena, who after the death of his father leaves Milan (and his work as a journalist) to return to live in that house. There he will find the ghost he had seen as a child, and with him also the mystery that, for years, has poisoned his family. To solve it with her, in addition to two “human” friends, there will also be two very special helpers, Mary Shelley and Shirley Jackson, two of the Gothic queens writers. Gothic Salentino It has also been selected by the Berlinal among the ten most promising titles of 2025 with high cinema potential.
* Sonar: Penny Dreadful (Paramount+, 2014), TV series
Photographs of the lost world by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
(Sur, pages 108, € 14; trad. Marco Cassini)
He arrives for the first time in Italy, seventy years after the first release in 1955, the debut book of poems by one of the fathers of the legendary beat generation, who died at 101 years old in 2021. The introduction of the publisher and translator who tells: “Thirty years ago, when I had the opportunity to meet the first time Lawrence Ferlinghetti to make him an interview for him the manifestoand I asked him naively what he meant then – forty years after his debut that had marked the birth of that literary generation – being “beat”, he got away with a surrealist response, perhaps not to have to underline the bleak lack of originality of my question “.
* Sonar: Queer by Luca Guadagnino (in cinemas from April 17, 2025, then on Mubi), Film
Wild Swimming by Giorgia Tolfo
(Bompiani, pages 300, € 18)
The debut, in a discipline that looks a lot like the auto -fiction but is something more, of Tolfo – translator, criticism, researcher and archivist of Marostica who has lived in London for many years – is an attempt to read the time that passes through love stories. The trigger is the meeting of the protagonist with J. who becomes the main line of narrative that contains everything else. And speaking of Wild Swimming: «Some summers before, in the wake of my first dip in that pond, I had dedicated myself to Wild Swimming. I specified that mine was not a version Wild-Wildrather one Wild-Wey. A kind of urban version of that practice that has become so popular in England and which consisted of swimming outdoors, in natural, ideally uncontaminated places. […] He asked me how he had been and I admitted that I had tried a disgust at the limits of horror for the quality of the water and a sense of great freedom to the limits of the Jouissance. Sometimes it seemed to me that certain things I had done in life made sense only because at a certain point I had told them ».
* Sonar: Invisible cities – Dunness (RSI.ch2024), audiosage
Heroine by Kate Zambano
(night, p. 336, € 19.90; trad. Federica Principi)
We need literary “counter-channels” that break the millenary male domination. This was born in December 2009 with a blog called “Frances Farmer is my sister” of the American Zambano, who following personal events develops an interest in the “crazy wives” of the great writers. To bring out, to bring out herself, beautiful portraits, from Vivienne Eliot to Jane Bowles, from Jean Rhys to Zelda Fitzgerald, who unhinge official biographies, all “pathologists”. Since then those “photographs” have become a text that is still considered a cult and that arrives for the first time, finally, in Italy. For those looking for sisterhood.
* Sonar: Philosopher. Ten women who have rethought the world by Francesca Romana Recchia Luciani (Ponte alle Grazie, 2025), Essay
The first queen by Alessandra Selmi
(North, pages 400, € 19)
Summer, 1868 Nina, envied waitress of the future queen, would also do without it: he hates court intrigues. They still do not know it, but the lives of these two women so far in the social scale are about to bind inextricably. Selmi is the author of the bestseller On this side of the river And this book has also already risen to the top of the Italian charts.
* Sonar: Downton Abbey (Amazon Prime, 2010), TV series
Source: Vanity Fair
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