Love, longing, war, and getting real with yourself: April's new books have something for every type of reader.
This month, the author of the bestselling World War II novel Lilac Girls is back with her sophomore book, a prequel set a generation earlier. Or check out the book that's already a huge success in the U.K. and is just now hitting U.S. bookstores, Sally Rooney's literary love story Normal People.
Two Australians are also winning raves for their new novels. There's Sally Hepworth's domestic suspense The Mother-in-Law and the coming-of-age debut Boy Swallows Universe by journalist Trent Dalton.
Each month the Goodreads Editorial team takes a look at the books that are being published, how early reviewers are rating them, and how many readers are adding these books to Want to Read shelves (which is how we measure anticipation). We use the information to curate this list of hottest new releases.
In this prequel set a generation before her bestselling novel, Lilac Girls, Eliza Ferriday embarks on a trip of a lifetime to the turbulent streets of St. Petersburg and the avenues of Paris under the shadow of World War I.
Release date: April 9
Read our interview with Martha Hall Kelly here.
A lot of people have complicated relationships with their in-laws. Most of them don't end in murder. A perplexing autopsy report and a last-minute will change are only the beginning in this book from The Family Next Door author.
Release date: April 23
Read our interview with Sally Hepworth here.
In a seedy suburb of Brisbane, Eli learns what it means to be a good man. His potential role models: a lost father, a heroin dealer stepdad, and Slim, his most steadfast guardian—who just happens to be a notorious felon and frequent prison escapee.
Release date: April 2
Read our interview with Trent Dalton here.
The electricity of first love clashes with the subtleties of class as young Connell and Marianne confront the limits of their connection over the years in this novel from the author of Conversations with Friends.
Release date: April 16
In this fictionalized account of a true story of systemic sexual abuse in a remote Mennonite colony, the women meet and decide what to do. This novel has drawn comparisons to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.
Release date: April 2
In this novel set in the 1990s from the author of Lily and the Octopus, a struggling writer gets his big break when his novel is sold to an editor at a major publishing house. That editor's name? Jackie Kennedy Onassis.
Release date: April 2
In this Chinese-inspired YA fantasy, a princess finds herself in power after her father dies. As she learns to rule her country, she's plagued by suspicions that the king may have been murdered.
Release date: April 2
This memoir-in-essays explores what happened after the author checked off all the boxes on her successful life's to-do list and realized she might need to reinvent both the list and herself.
Release date: April 2
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
by Lori Gottlieb
The psychotherapist and national advice columnist gives readers a hilarious and thought-provoking look behind the scenes of a therapist’s world—where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).
Release date: April 2
Read Lori Gottlieb's book recommendations here.
Which new releases are you looking forward to reading? Let's talk books in the comments!
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