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Contemporary & Literary Fiction
Bad Nature
Ariel Courage
Armed with a terminal diagnosis, a grudge, and a rental car, Hester sets out to fulfill her lifelong dream of killing her father in this brilliantly subversive and bleakly funny debut novel. Ragingly singular and surprisingly moving, Bad Nature is a story of stunning detours and twists until its final destination. Part road-trip novel, part revenge tale, part lament for our ongoing ecological crisis, it’s ultimately a deft examination of the indulgence of holding grudges, moral ambivalence, and the eternal possibility of redemption.
Publication date: April 1
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co.
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Flesh
David Szalay
From Booker Prize finalist David Szalay, a propulsive, hypnotic novel, about a man whose future is derailed by a series of events that he is unable to control. Flesh traces the imperceptible but indelible contours of unresolved trauma and its aftermath amid the precarity and violence of an ever-globalizing Europe with incisive insight, unyielding pathos, and startling humanity.
Publication date: April 1
Publisher: Scribner
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I See You’ve Called in Dead
John Kennedy
The Office meets Six Feet Under meets About a Boy in this coming-of-middle-age tale about having a second chance to write your life’s story. Thurber Prize-winner and New York Times bestselling author John Kenney tells a funny, touching story about life and death, about the search for meaning, about finding and never letting go of the preciousness of life.
Publication date: April 1
Publisher: Zibby Publishing
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Rabbit Moon
Jennifer Haigh
A tense, propulsive drama set in Shanghai, about a fractured American family, secret lives, and the unbreakable bond between two sisters, from the New York Times bestselling author of Mercy Street.
Publication date: April 1
Publisher: Little, Brown, & Co.
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Sad Tiger
Neige Sinno & Natasha Lehrer
Winner of multiple prizes, Neige Sinno has created a powerful literary form with Sad Tiger, a book that took France by storm and is an international phenomenon. Sad Tiger—the title inspired by William Blake’s poem “The Tyger”—is a literary exploration into how to speak about the unspeakable. In this extraordinary book there is an abiding concern: how to protect others from what the author herself endured? In the midst of so much darkness, an answer reads crystal clear: by speaking up and asking questions.
Publication date: April 1
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
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Audition
Katie Kitamura
One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love.
Publication date: April 8
Publisher: Riverhead
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Fun for the Whole Family
Jennifer E. Smith
A breathtaking, joy-filled novel about the people we love, the secrets we keep, and the enduring power of family, from the bestselling author of The Unsinkable Greta James.
Publication date: April 8
Publisher: Riverhead
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Happy Land
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
A woman learns the incredible story of a real-life American Kingdom—and her family’s ties to it—in this enthralling novel from the New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image Award-winning author of Take My Hand.
Publication date: April 8
Publisher: Riverhead
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Make Sure You Die Screaming
Zee Carlstrom
An electrifying debut about a nonbinary corporate burnout embarking on a road trip from Chicago to Arkansas to find their conspiracy-theorist father, who has gone missing—for fans of Detransition Baby and Chain-Gang All-Stars.
Publication date: April 8
Publisher: Flatiron Books
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My Documents
Kevin Nguyen
The paths of four family members diverge drastically when the U.S. government begins detaining Vietnamese Americans, in this sharp and touching novel about coming of age at the intersection of ambition and assimilation. nformed by real-life events, from Japanese incarceration to the Vietnam War and modern-day immigrant detention, Kevin Nguyen’s novel gives us a version of reality only a few degrees away from our own.
Publication date: April 8
Publisher: William Morrow
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Sky Daddy
Kate Folk
Cross the jet bridge with Linda, a frequent flyer with an unusual obsession, in this audaciously imagined and surprisingly tender debut novel by the acclaimed author of Out There. Both subversive and unexpectedly heartwarming, Sky Daddyhijacks the classic love story, exploring desire, fate, and the longing to be accepted for who we truly are.
Publication date: April 8
Publisher: Random House
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Open, Heaven
Seán Hewitt
A stunning debut novel from the acclaimed young Irish poet Seán Hewitt, reminiscent of Garth Greenwell and Justin Torres in the intensity of its evocation of sexual awakening. Open, Heaven is a novel about desire, yearning, and the terror of first love. With the striking economy and lyricism that animate his work as a poet, Hewitt has written a mesmerizing hymn to boyhood, sensuality, and love in all its forms.
Publication date: April 15
Publisher: Knopf
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The Bright Years
Sarah Damoff
One family. Four generations. A secret son. A devastating addiction. A Texas family is met with losses and surprises of inheritance, but they’re unable to shake the pull back toward each other in this big-hearted family saga perfect for readers of Mary Beth Keane and Claire Lombardo.
Publication date: April 22
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Zeal
Morgan Jerkins
The New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing and Caul Baby returns with an epic, multi-generational novel that illuminates the legacy of slavery and the power of romantic love.
Publication date: April 22
Publisher: Riverhead
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The Correspondent
Virginia Evans
Filled with knowledge that only comes from a life fully lived, The Correspondent is a gem of a novel about the power of finding solace in literature and connection with people we might never meet in person. It is about the hubris of youth and the wisdom of old age, and the mistakes and acts of kindness that occur during a lifetime.
Publication date: April 29
Publisher: Crown
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The Road to Tender Hearts
Annie Hartnett
A darkly comic and warm-hearted novel about an old man on a cross-country mission to reunite with his high school crush—bringing together his adult daughter, two orphaned kids, and a cat who can predict death—by the beloved author of Rabbit Cake and Unlikely Animals.
Publication date: April 29
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Historical Fiction
Perspective(s)
Laurent Binet
A pulse-quickening murder mystery set in Renaissance Florence by the renowned author of HHhH. Bursting with characters and historical color, Laurent Binet’s Perspective(s) is a whodunit like no other―a labyrinthine murder mystery that shows us Renaissance Florence as we’ve never seen it before.
Publication date: April 8
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The Eights
Joanna Miller
They knew they were changing history. They didn’t know they would change each other. Following the unlikely friendship of four women in the first female class at Oxford, their unshakeable bond in the face of male contempt, and their coming of age in a world forever changed by World War I.
Publication date: April 15
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
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The Wildelings
Lisa Harding
A vivid and compulsive story of obsession, control and guilt, set in 1990s Dublin – perfect for fans of dark academia and Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.
Publication date: April 15
Publisher: HarperVia
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Gabriële
Anne & Claire Berest
An atmospheric, exuberant novel from the best-selling author of The Postcard, Anne Berest, and her sister, Claire Berest, about love and sex, art and revolution, experimentation and creativity, and three young people who changed the world.
Publication date: April 22
Publisher: Europa
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The Pretender
Jo Harkin
Set in the tumultuous period of the Tudors’ ascent, The Pretender brings to life the little-known story of Lambert Simnel. From humble beginnings as a peasant boy, Lambert’s life takes an astonishing turn when, at just ten years old, he becomes a claimant to the English throne as one of the last of the Plantagenet line. As Lambert navigates the treacherous waters of royal intrigue and court life, complex themes of identity, power, and destiny unfold, weaving a tapestry of ambition and survival in a world where the stakes couldn’t be higher.
Publication date: April 22
Publisher: Knopf
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The Lilac People
Milo Todd
A moving and deeply humane story about a trans man who must relinquish the freedoms of prewar Berlin to survive first the Nazis then the Allies while protecting the ones he loves, for readers of All the Light We Cannot See and In Memoriam.
Publication date: April 29
Publisher: Counterpoint
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Romance
Any Trope But You
Victoria Lavine
A bestselling romance author flees to Alaska to reinvent herself and write her first murder mystery, but the rugged resort proprietor soon has her fearing she’s living in a rom-com plot instead in this earnestly spectacular debut by a stunning new voice.
Publication Date: April 1
Publisher: Atria Books
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No Ordinary Love
Myah Ariel
A PR partnership between a pop superstar and a pro-athlete bad boy turns into so much more in this swoony romance from the acclaimed author of When I Think of You.
Publication Date: April 1
Publisher: Berkley
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Say You’ll Remember Me
Abby Jimenez
There might be no such a thing as a perfect guy, but Xavier Rush comes disastrously close. A gorgeous veterinarian giving Greek god vibes—all while cuddling a tiny kitten? That is until Xavier opens his mouth and proves that even sculpted gods can say the absolute wrong thing. Of course, there’s nothing Samantha loves more than proving an asshole wrong…
Publication Date: April 1
Publisher: Forever
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Passion Project
London Sperry
Not only a sparkling romantic comedy, but a thoughtful look at navigating grief and the hopefulness of opening yourself to new possibilities. With emotional resonance and sparkling banter, Passion Project is a fun, flirty, thoughtful story of finding a spark—and igniting happiness.
Publication Date: April 8
Publisher: Penguin Press
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Wild and Wrangled
Lyla Sae
She’s the one that got away. He’s the one that never let her go. From the bestselling author of Done and Dusted and Swift and Saddled, the next book in the Rebel Blue Ranch series, a small-town romance in which past lovers get a second chance to rediscover what they lost.
Publication Date: April 15
Publisher: Dial Press
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Flirting Lessons
Jasmine Guillory
Avery Jensen is almost thirty, fresh off a breakup, and she’s tired of always being so uptight and well-behaved. She wants to get a hobby, date around (especially women), flirt with everyone she sees, wear something not from the business casual section of her closet—all the fun stuff normal people do in their twenties. One problem: Avery doesn’t know where to start. Enter Taylor Cameron, Napa Valley’s biggest flirt and champion heartbreaker.
Publication Date: April 15
Publisher: Dial Press
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Swept Away
Beth O’Leary
Two strangers find themselves stranded at sea together in this epic new love story by bestselling author Beth O’Leary. What if you were lost at sea…with your one-night stand?
Publication Date: April 1
Publisher: Berkley
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Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry
Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping novel from Emily Henry.
Publication Date: April 22
Publisher: Berkley
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My Best Friend’s Honeymoon
Meryl Wilsner
Meryl Wilsner’s spicy romance, their first with a nonbinary lead, where two lifelong best friends go on a nonrefundable honeymoon together and discover sometimes to find a happily ever after, you just have to ask. Meryl Wilsner’s My Best Friend’s Honeymoon is about not only learning to ask for what you want, but for the happiness you deserve.
Publication Date: April 29
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
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Once Upon You and Me
Timothy Janovsky
When Taylor Frost’s boss, Amy, flies him across the country to prep for her daughter’s sweet sixteen at the Storybook Endings Resort in the Catskills, the solo mission is well within his wheelhouse. Taylor is excellent at his job—except, he’s probably not supposed to flirt with the resort’s mountain man of a manager, Ethan Golding. Because the rugged older man is also the birthday girl’s father, aka Amy’s ex-husband. Oops
Publication Date: April 29
Publisher: Afterglow
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Thrillers & Mysteries
Heartwood
Amity Gaige
A gripping journey as a search and rescue team race against time when an experienced hiker mysteriously disappears on the Appalachian Trail in Maine.
Publication date: April 1
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Bitterfrost
Bryan Gruley
The first in a brand-new crime thriller series from Edgar nominee and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Bryan Gruley. Feisty defence attorney Devyn Payne faces off against veteran detective Garth Klimmek as they work to solve a vicious double homicide in their small, icy town of Bitterfrost.
Publication date: April 1
Publisher: Severn House
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Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)
Jesse Q. Sutanto
Vera Wong is back and as meddling as ever in this follow-up to the hit Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers...
Publication date: April 1
Publisher: Berkley
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The Snares
Rav Grewal-Kök
A Punjabi American lawyer at a mysterious federal intelligence agency fights to keep his career, marriage, and morality intact in this gripping post-9/11 drama from a thrilling new voice. The novel plunges readers into the human turmoil behind the faceless operations—the torture, secret assassinations, and drone strikes—of the American security state, creating an eye-opening meditation on morality, violence, and the price of a human soul.
Publication date: April 1
Publisher: Random House
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Murder at Gulls Nest
Jess Kidd
From Jess Kidd, the bestselling author of Things in Jars who is so good it isn’t fair, the first in a cozy mystery series about a former nun who searches for answers in a small seaside town after her pen pal mysteriously disappears.
Publication date: April 8
Publisher: Atria Books
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Coram House
Bailey Seybolt
Sharp Objects meets I Have Some Questions for You in this haunting novel—inspired by a true story—about a crime writer who risks everything as she investigates the mystery of two deaths, decades apart, at a crumbling Vermont orphanage.
Publication date: April 15
Publisher: Atria Books
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The Death of Us
Abigail Dean
Edward and Isabel are young and in love, occupied by friends, work and fun. But late on a spring evening when they are thirty years old, their home is invaded by a serial killer. In the wake of this violation, each tries to come to terms with a night that changed everything — and their marriage begins to crumble. A captivating portrait of a marriage and its implosion, The Death of Us digs into the stories we tell ourselves about love — and everything love can bear.
Publication date: April 15
Publisher: Atria Books
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One Death at a Time
Abbi Waxman
A cranky former actress teams up with her Gen Z sobriety sponsor to solve the murder that threatens to send her back to prison in this dazzling new mystery novel from the USA Today bestselling author of The Bookish Life of Nina Hill.
Publication date: April 15
Publisher: Berkley
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Ruth Run
Elizabeth Kaufman
Cybercrime leads to a cross-country pursuit as an ambitious, misfit young thief exploits a hacked microchip to rob banks, and learns too late that the wrong people have been watching her. nonstop oddball thriller for the age of digital theft, Ruth Run introduces an irresistible new heroine and a fantastic new voice in contemporary fiction.
Publication date: April 15
Publisher: Penguin Press
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Every Sweet Thing Is Bitter
Samantha Crewson
A woman with a violent past gets a chance at redemption in this upmarket suspense debut, perfect for fans of Lisa Taddeo and Tiffany McDaniel. Sharp and poignant, Every Sweet Thing Is Bitter is a stunning novel that eschews picture-perfect endings and dares to tell a story about a resilient queer woman and her relentless determination to persevere.
Publication date: April 22
Publisher: Crooked Lane
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Horror & Gothic Fiction
This Monster of Mine
Shalini Abeysekara
Eighteen-year-old Sarai doesn’t know why someone tried to kill her four years ago, but she does know that her case was closed without justice. Hellbent on vengeance, she returns to the scene of the crime as a Petitor, a prosecutor who can magically detect lies, and is assigned to work with Tetrarch Kadra. Ice-cold and perennially sadistic, Kadra is the most vicious of the four judges who rule the land—and the prime suspect in a string of deaths identical to Sarai’s attempted murder.
Publication date: April 1
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
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Their Monstrous Hearts
Vigit Turhan
A mysterious stranger shows up at Riccardo’s apartment with some news: his grandmother Perihan has died, and Riccardo has inherited her villa in Milan along with her famed butterfly collection. He’s hoping the change of scenery in Milan will inspire his writing, and maybe there will be some money to keep him afloat. But Perihan’s house isn’t as opulent as he remembers. The butterflies pinned in their glass cases seem more ominous than artful. Perihan’s group of mysterious old friends is constantly lurking. And there’s something wrong in the greenhouse.
Publication date: April 8
Publisher: MIRA
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Eat the Ones You Love
Sarah Maria Griffin
After losing her job and her fiancé and moving back from the city to live with her parents, Shell Pine needs some help. And according to the sign in the window, the florist shop in the mall does too. Shell gets the gig, and the flowers she works with there are just the thing she needs to cheer up. Or maybe it’s Neve, the beautiful shop manager, who is making her days so rosy? But you have to get your hands dirty if you want your garden to grow―and Neve’s secrets are as dark and dangerous as they come..
Publication date: April 8
Publisher: Tor Books
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Bat Eater And Other Names for Cora Zeng
Kylie Lee Baker
In this explosive horror novel, a woman is haunted by inner trauma, hungry ghosts, and a serial killer as she confronts the brutal violence experienced by East Asians during the pandemic. For fans of Stephen Graham Jones and Gretchen Felker-Martin, Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng is a wildly original, darkly humorous, and subversive contemporary novel from a striking new voice in horror.
Publication date: April 29
Publisher: MIRA
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The Staircase in the Woods
Chuck Wendig
A group of friends investigates the mystery of a strange staircase in the woods in this mesmerizing horror novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Accidents.
Publication date: April 29
Publisher: Del Rey
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Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Magical Realism
The Sirens
Emilia Hart
A spellbinding novel about sisters separated by centuries, but bound together by the sea, from the author of the runaway New York Times bestseller Weyward. A breathtaking tale of female resilience and the bonds of sisterhood across time and space, The Sirens captures the power of dreams, and the mystery and magic of the sea.
Publication date: April 1
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
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Cold Eternity
S.A. Barnes
Cold Eternity is the newest action-packed space horror from S.A. Barnes perfect for fans of Severance, where desperation for eternal life leads to a fate worse than death…
Publication date: April 1
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
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A Drop of Corruption
Robert Jackson Bennett
The eccentric detective Ana Dolabra matches wits with a seemingly omniscient adversary in this brilliant fantasy-mystery from the author of The Tainted Cup.
Publication date: April 1
Publisher: Del Rey
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The Ephemera Collector
Stacy Nathaniel Jackson
A tenacious curator fights to save her beloved library and a new, groundbreaking archive in this epic Afrofuturist debut. A lyrical and strikingly original saga, The Ephemera Collectorannounces Stacy Nathaniel Jackson as a singular new voice in fiction.
Publication date: April 1
Publisher: Liveright
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Where the Axe Is Buried
Ray Nayler
All systems fail. All societies crumble. All worlds end. Ray Nayler launches readers into a thrilling near-future world of geopolitical espionage. A cybernetic novel of political intrigue, Where the Axe is Buried combines the story of a near-impossible revolutionary operation with a blistering indictment of the many forms of authoritarianism that suffocate human freedom.
Publication date: April 1
Publisher: MCD
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A Palace Near the Wind
Ai Jiang
From a rising-star author, winner of the both the Bram Stoker® and Nebula Awards, a richly inventive, brutal and beautiful science-fantasy novella. A story of family, loss, oppression and rebellion that will stay with you long after the final page. For readers of Nghi Vo’s The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Neon Yang’s The Black Tides of Heaven, and Kritika H. Rao’s The Surviving Sky.
Publication date: April 15
Publisher: Titan Books
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Notes from a Regicide
Isaac Fellman
Notes from a Regicide is a heartbreaking story of trans self-discovery with a rich relatability and a science-fictional twist. Isaac Fellman goes beyond the concept of found family to examine how deeply we can be healed and hurt by those we choose to love.
Publication date: April 15
Publisher: Tor Books
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Vanishing World
Emilia Hart
From the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version of Japan where sex between married couples has vanished and all children are born by artificial insemination.
Publication date: April 15
Publisher: Grove Press
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The Amalfi Curse
Sarah Penner
Powerful witchcraft. A hunt for sunken treasure. Forbidden love on the high seas. Beware the Amalfi Curse… Against the dazzling backdrop of the Amalfi Coast, this bewitching novel shimmers with mystery, romance and the untamed magic of the sea.
Publication date: April 29
Publisher: Park Row
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Short Stories & Essays
Authority: Essays
Andrea Long Chu
A bold, provocative collection of essays on one of the most urgent questions of our time: What is authority when everyone has an opinion on everything?
Publication date: April 8
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Fugitive Tilts: Essays
Ishion Hutchinson
Ishion Hutchinson turns his poetic sensibility to questions of home, displacement, and memory in his beautiful and searingly brilliant prose debut. These essays, varied in their forms and ranging across time and place, allow Hutchinson to build a space from which the suffering of the past and the present can be reckoned with and survived.
Publication date: April 15
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Hellions: Stories
Julia Elliott
From the acclaimed author of The Wilds comes an electric story collection that blends folklore, fairy tales, Southern Gothic, and horror, reveling in the collision of the familiar with the wildly surreal.
Publication date: April 15
Publisher: Tin House
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Atavists: Stories
Lydia Millet
A fast-moving, heartbreaking collection of short fiction from “the American writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourselves” (Chicago Tribune). n these stories sharp observations of middle-class mores and sanctimony give way to moments of raw exposure and longing: Atavistsperforms an uncanny fictional magic, full of revelation but also hilarious, unpretentious, and warm.
Publication date: April 15
Publisher: W. W. Norton
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The Sea Gives Up the Dead
Molly Olguín
A lovesick nanny slays a dragon. The devil tries to save her mother. A girl drowns and becomes a saint. Three kids plot to blow up their dad, a grieving mother sails the sea to find her son’s grave, a scientist brings a voice to life, and a mermaid falls into the power of a witch. Here, historical fiction, horror, and fantasy tangle together in a queer garden of love, grief, and longing.
Publication date: April 29
Publisher: Red Hen Press
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Memoirs & Biographies
Boat Baby: A Memoir
Vicky Nguyen
In a memoir where heroism meets humor, NBC News anchor and correspondent Vicky Nguyen tells the story of her family’s daring escape from communist Vietnam and her unlikely journey from refugee to reporter with laughter and fierce love.
Publication date: April 1
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs
Ian Leslie
John Lennon and Paul McCartney knew each other for twenty-three years, from 1957 to 1980. This book is the myth-shattering biography of a relationship that changed the cultural history of the world.
Publication date: April 8
Publisher: Celadon
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The 10: A Memoir of Family & the Open Road
E.A. Hanks
From Vanity Fair and The New York Times contributor comes a beautifully written, deeply felt memoir recounting the solo, cross-country journey she made along the Ten across the American southwest: a mission to uncover both what harrowing violence may or may not have happened to her late mother, but also, to look within and discover who she herself is—where her mother ends and she begins.
Publication date: April 8
Publisher: Gallery Books
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Accidentally On Purpose: A Memoir
Kristen Kish
A tender, cleareyed memoir about Kristen’s story and how it is not defined by the missteps or even the pleasant surprises that crop up but how she learned to find her voice and use it. Because while accidents may be unexpected, they don’t have to be at odds with purpose.
Publication date: April 22
Publisher: Little, Brown, & Co.
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The World of Nancy Kwan: A Memoir by Hollywood’s First Asian Leading Lady and Global Star
Nancy Kwan
A Hollywood superstar shares the inspiring story of her groundbreaking career. The World of Nancy Kwan is a multifaceted personal story of an iconic actress whose triumphant rise and resilience illuminate the broader history of Hollywood and how the only way forward is to stay true to oneself.
Publication date: April 22
Publisher: Legacy Lit
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The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary
Susannah Cahalan
The untold story of the woman who played a critical role in bringing psychedelics into the mainstream—until her audacious exploits forced her into the shadows—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire.
Publication date: April 22
Publisher: Viking
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Ordinary Time: Lessons Learned While Staying Put
Annie B. Jones
In her first book, the popular From the Front Porch podcast host and independent bookstore owner challenges the idea that loud lives are the ones that matter most, reminding us that we don’t have to leave the lives we have in order to have the lives of which we’ve always dreamed.
Publication date: April 22
Publisher: HarperOne
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Better: A Memoir About Wanting to Die
Arianna Rebolini
A gutsy, riveting memoir that intimately explores suicide, its legacy in families, and the cyclical, crooked path of recovery. A harrowing intellectual and emotional odyssey marked by remarkable clarity and compassion, Better is a tour through the seductive darkness of death and a life-affirming memoir.
Publication date: April 29
Publisher: Harper
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Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend
Jason Bailey
A deeply reported, perceptive, and celebratory biography of beloved actor James Gandolfini from a prominent critic and film historian.
Publication date: April 29
Publisher: Abrams Press
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Nonfiction
Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum
Elaine Sciolino
A former New York Times Paris bureau chief explores the Louvre, offering an intimate journey of discovery and revelation. Blending investigative journalism, travelogue, history, and memoir, Sciolino walks her readers through the museum’s front gates and immerses them in its irresistible, engrossing world of beauty and culture. Adventures in the Louvre reveals the secrets of this grand monument of Paris and basks in its timeless, seductive power.
Publication date: April 1
Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery
Richard Kreitner
Since ancient times, the Jewish people have recalled the story of Exodus and reflected on the implications of having been slaves. Did the tradition teach that Jews should speak out against slavery and oppression everywhere, or act cautiously to protect themselves in a hostile world? In Fear No Pharaoh, the journalist and historian Richard Kreitner sets this question at the heart of the Civil War era.
Publication date: April 1
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer’s Families & the Search for a Cure
Jennie Erin Smith
The riveting account of a community from the remote mountains of Colombia whose rare and fatal genetic mutation is unlocking the secrets of Alzheimer’s disease. Smith’s immersive storytelling brings this complex drama to life, inviting readers on a scientific journey that is as deeply moving as it is engrossing.
Publication date: April 1
Publisher: Riverhead Books
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Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
Vauhini Vara
From the author of The Immortal King Rao, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a personal exploration of how technology companies have both fulfilled and exploited the human desire for understanding and connection.
Publication date: April 8
Publisher: Pantheon
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Black Power Scorecard: Measuring the Racial Gap & What We Can Do to Close It
Andre M. Perry
From the creator of a unified field theory of racism, a dollars-and-cents reckoning of the state of Black America and a new framework to close the power gap. An expansive take on power supported by documentation and data, Black Power Scorecard is a fresh contribution to the country’s reckoning with structural inequality, one that offers a new approach to redressing it.
Publication date: April 15
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
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Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality
Deborah N. Archer
From an eminent legal scholar and the president of the ACLU, an essential account of how transportation infrastructure―from highways and roads to sidewalks and buses―became a means of protecting segregation and inequality after the fall of Jim Crow.
Publication date: April 15
Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell
Gabe Henry
A brief and humorous 500-year history of the Simplified Spelling Movement from advocates like Ben Franklin, C. S. Lewis, and Mark Twain to texts and Twitter. Henry takes his humorous and informative chronicle right up to today as the language seems to naturally be simplifying to fit the needs of our changing world thanks to technology.
Publication date: April 15
Publisher: Dey Street Books
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Lost at Sea: Poverty and Paradise Collide at the Edge of America
Joe Kloc
A deeply personal nine-year account of the lives of the “anchor-outs”—an unhoused community living off the California coast on abandoned boats—that explores the struggles and resilience of those surviving on the fringes of society.
Publication date: April 15
Publisher: Dey Street Books
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Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools
Mary Annette Pember
A sweeping and trenchant exploration of the history of Native American boarding schools in the U.S., and the legacy of abuse wrought by systemic attempts to use education as a tool through which to destroy Native culture.
Publication date: April 22
Publisher: Pantheon
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No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
Gardiner Harris
An explosive, deeply reported exposé of Johnson & Johnson, one of America’s oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies. Filled with shocking and infuriating but utterly necessary revelations, No More Tears is a landmark work of investigative journalism that lays bare the deeply rooted corruption behind the image of babies bathing with a smile.
Publication date: April 22
Publisher: Random House
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Rethinking Medications: Truth, Power, and the Drugs You Take
Jerry Avorn
A leading medical expert explains why too many of the medications Americans take are poorly evaluated, overpriced, or pose unwarranted risks—and what we can do to fix that.
Publication date: April 22
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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On Muscle: The Stuff that Moves Us and Why It Matters
Bonnie Tsui
From the bestselling author of Why We Swim comes a mind-expanding exploration of muscle—from our ancient obsession with the ideal human form to the modern science of this amazing and adaptable tissue—that will change the way you think about what moves us through the world.
Publication date: April 22
Publisher: Algonquin Books
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A Training School for Elephants
Sophy Roberts
Out of a sidelined, colonial-era expedition in Africa comes a new history of cruelty, deception and adventure from the acclaimed author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia.
Publication date: April 22
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly
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Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future
Alan Weisman
The award-winning environmental journalist’s extraordinary, long-awaited portrait of hope and resilience as we face a fractured and uncertain future.
Publication date: April 22
Publisher: Dutton
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Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
Sophie Gilbert
From Atlantic critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sophie Gilbert, a blazing critique of early aughts pop culture. Amid a collective reconsideration of the way women are treated in public, Girl on Girl is a blistering indictment of the matrix of misogyny that undergirded the cultural production of the early twenty-first century, and continues to shape our world today.
Publication date: April 29
Publisher: Penguin Press
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So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs – And May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease
Thomas Levenson
The centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease reveals as much about human reasoning—and the pitfalls of ego—as it does about microbes. So Very Small follows the thread of human ingenuity and hubris across centuries to show how we came to understand the microbial environment and how little we understand ourselves. Levenson traces how and why ideas are pursued, accepted, or ignored—and hence how human habits of mind can, so often, make it terribly hard to ask the right questions.
Publication date: April 29
Publisher: Random House
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The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
Michael Luo
The internationally bestselling author of The Anarchyreturns with a sparkling, soaring history of ideas, tracing South Asia’s under-recognized role in producing the world as we know it.
Publication date: April 29
Publisher: Bloomsbury
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Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America
Michael Luo
From New Yorker writer Michael Luo comes a masterful narrative history of the Chinese in America that traces the sorrowful theme of exclusion and documents their more than century-long struggle to belong.
Publication date: April 29
Publisher: Doubleday
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The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation
Charlotte Beradt
Available again for the first time since its publication in the 1960s, this sensational book brings together this uniquely powerful dream record, offering a visceral understanding of how terror is internalized and how propaganda colonizes the imagination. The Third Reich of Dreams provides a raw, unfiltered, and prophetic look inside the experience of living through Hitler’s terror.
Publication date: April 29
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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