The best new books to read in April 2024 feature new books by bestselling and award-winning authors including contemporary and literary, essay collections, memoirs, biographies, and personal accounts. Spring into a great new book this April with these 10 new highly anticipated April books. Available to purchase now or preorder, these are the most anticipated books of April 2024.

The Best New Books To Read In April 2024

1. The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez

Release Date: April 2

Great American novelist Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, returns with a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant classic.

2. The Mango Tree by Annabelle Tometich

Release Date: April 2

This “witty, humorous, and heartfelt“ (Cinelle Barnes) memoir navigates the tangled branches of Annabelle Tometich’s life, from growing up in Florida as the child of a Filipino mother and a deceased white father to her adult life as a med-school-reject-turned-food-critic.

3. We Loved It All by Lydia Millet

Release Date: April 2

This lucent anti-memoir from celebrated novelist Lydia Millet explores the pain and joy of being a parent, child, and human at a moment when the richness of the planet’s life is deeply threatened.

4. Like Love by Maggie Nelson

Release Date: April 2

A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists.

5. The Limits by Nell Freudenberger

Release Date: April 9

The most thrilling work yet from the best-selling, prize-winning author of The Newlyweds and Lost and Wanted, a stunning new novel set in French Polynesia and New York City about three characters who undergo massive transformations over the course of a single year

6. The Wives by Simone Gorrindo

Release Date: April 9

A captivating memoir that tells the story of one woman’s experience of joining a community of army wives after leaving her New York City job—a profoundly intimate look at marriage, friendship, and the power of human connection.

7. Knife by Salman Rushdie

Release Date: April 9

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him.

8. A Body Made of Glass by Caroline Crampton

Release Date: April 23

Part cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A Body Made of Glass is a definitive biography of hypochondria.

9. Funny Story by Emily Henry

Release Date: April 23

Great American novelist Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, returns with a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant classic.

10. Lucky by Jane Smiley

Release Date: April 23

From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musician who rises to fame across our changing times.

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