Looking for something new to pick up in April? We have you covered, here are some of the April 2024 book releases that we are most excited to read.
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April 2024 Book Releases
Does anyone else struggle to pick out their next read? I know I do. It takes me ages and a lot of scrolling through my kindle, for me to finally settle on what to read next. You know what doesn’t help? All the great books that come out each month. I want to read them all, which just adds to my list of titles to look through. But, why suffer alone, when I can rope you guys in as well?
I have compiled a list of the April book releases that I most excited about and a few recommendations. These are the ones I know I’ll be scrolling through soon when I decide what I am going to read next. They are mostly romance books, but, a few extras here and there. Want to see a longer list of April book releases? Join our community and get access to our releases calendar currently featuring over 100 books coming out in April.
Contemporary Romance April 2024 Book Releases
Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
April 2, 2024
A sharp and scintillating summer novel that will make readers laugh out loud and cry happy tears from the New York Times bestselling author of Yours Truly.
Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it’s now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan: They’ll date each other and break up. Their curses will cancel each otherโs out, and theyโll both go on to find the love of their lives. Itโs a bonkers ideaโฆ and it just might work.
Emma hadn’t planned that her next assignment as a traveling nurse would be in Minnesota, but she and her best friend agree that dating Justin is too good of an opportunity to pass up, especially when they get to rent an adorable cottage on a private island on Lake Minnetonka.
It’s supposed to be a quick fling, just for the summer. But when Emma’s toxic mother shows up and Justin has to assume guardianship of his three siblings, they’re suddenly navigating a lot more than they expected–including catching real feelings for each other. What if this time Fate has actually brought the perfect pair together?
How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang
April 9, 2024
A sexy and emotional enemies-to-lovers romance guaranteed to pull on your heartstrings and give you a book hangover from brilliant new voice Yulin Kuang.
Helen Zhang hasnโt seen Grant Shepard once in the thirteen years sincethe tragic accident that bound their lives together forever.
Now a bestselling author, Helen pours everything into her career. Sheโs even scored a coveted spot in the writersโ room of the TV adaptation of her popular young adult novels, and if she can hide her imposter syndrome and overcome her writerโs block, surely the rest of her life will fall into place too. LA is the fresh start she needs. After all, no one knows her there. Exceptโฆ
Grant has done everything in his power to move on from the past, including building a life across the country. And while the panic attacks have never quite gone away, heโs well liked around town as a screenwriter. He knows he shouldnโt have taken the job on Helenโs show, but it will open doors to developing his own projects that he just canโt pass up.
Grantโs exactly as Helen remembers himโcharming, funny, popular, and lovable in ways that sheโs never been. And Helenโs exactly as Grant remembers tooโbrilliant, beautiful, closed off. But working together is messy, and electrifying, and Helenโs parents, who have never forgiven Grant, have no idea heโs in the picture at all.
When secrets come to light, they must reckon with the fact that theirs was never meant to be any kind of love story. And yetโฆ the key to making peace with their pastโand themselvesโmight just lie in holding on to each other in the present.
Funny Story by Emily Henry
April 23, 2024
A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1ย New York Timesย bestselling author Emily Henry.
Daphne always loved the way her fiancรฉ Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling itโฆright up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.
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Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a childrenโs librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petraโs ex, Miles Nowak.
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ย Scruffy and chaoticโwith a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads โMiles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that sheโs either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?
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But itโs all just for show, ofย course,ย because thereโs no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancรฉโs new fiancรฉeโs exโฆright?
Quiet Types by L.H. Cosway
April 23, 2024
Maggie Lydon rides the bus to her cleaning job every day. Itโs an ordinary existence until she noticesย himย sitting just two rows behind her. She doesnโt know his name, nor anything about him. All she knows is that he watches her and itโs the most exciting part of her week.
Shay Riordan noticesย herย the very first time he takes the bus. Sheโs captivating, a beauty who moves through the world like no one else can see her, but sheโs far from invisible to him. He wants to sit next to her, introduce himself, but itโs hard to do when you canโt speak.
Then, late one Friday evening they both board the bus, and an unexpected occurrence plunges Maggie into Shayโs world, and Shay into Maggieโs.
Quiet Typesย is a standalone contemporary romance and is book #1 in L.H. Coswayโs Quiet Love Series.
Cozy Mystery April 2024 Book Releases
Grave New World by Gena Showalter and Jill Monroe
April 29, 2024
Jane Ladling cordially invites you to the worldโs most romantic wedding. But first, thereโs a few items to check off her to-do list.
- Actually plan the festivities
- Find a way to pay for said festivities
- Avoid finding a dead body. OOPS! Solve a murder
As the owner of a landlocked cemetery and self-proclaimed expert amateur sleuth, Jane knows death inside and out. After receiving an invite to speak at a local writerโs club, she discovers a dead body upon arrival, plus an invitation from the killer.
Player one is ready. Are you?
Now the game is on!
With a newly elected (smoking hot) sheriff who doubles as her overprotective fiancรฉ, a gaggle of enabling best friends, and a lovingly vicious guardcat at her side, the intrepid Jane has no doubt sheโll win. But as clues lead everywhere and nowhere at once, another victim is discovered, and an ancient family curse rears its ugly head. Jane realizes sheโs caught in a battle between cat and mouse. To succeed, sheโll have to lay a trap of her ownโฆ
Fantasy Romance April 2024 Book Releases
A Promise of Peridot by Kate Golden
April 9, 2024
The next seductive, sweeping, action-packed installment in the addictive Sacred Stones trilogy.
A prophecy of death. A weapon of hope. A sacrifice of love.
Arwen Valondale is sailing for the mysterious Kingdom of Citrine after the battle of Sirenโs Bay. Still reeling from the loss of her mother and the shock of her newfound powers, Arwen directs all of her pain and rage toward the man who betrayed her: King Kane Ravenwood.
But Kaneโs presence is unavoidable as he leads Arwen and her friends on an expedition to recover the Blade of the Sunโa legendary weapon with the power to kill tyrannical Fae King Lazarus. Their uneasy truce proves difficult to maintain, as Arwen battles her unresolved feelings, and Kane is willing to become darkness itself to protect her.
Arwen knows failure to fulfill the prophecy will seal both her own fate as well as the fates of those she loves most. But as Arwen faces creatures, foes, and magic beyond her wildest imaginings, her resolve is tested in ways she never could have foreseen.
Mined by Magic by Jenna Wolfhart
April 30, 2024
โIโd gladly give up the sun if it meant I could have you.โ
Full blurb coming soon!
Mined in Magic is a stand-alone cozy romantasy set in the whimsical world of Falling for Fables.
Historical Fiction April 2024 Book Releases
The House on Biscayne Bay by Chanel Cleeton
April 2, 2024
As death stalks a gothic mansion in Miami, the lives of two women intertwine as the past and present collide inย New York Timesย bestselling author Chanel Cleetonโs atmospheric new novel.
With the Great War finally behind them, many Americans flock to South Florida with their sights set on making a fortune.ย When wealthy industrialist Robert Barnes and his wife, Anna, build Marbrisa, a glamorous estate on Biscayne Bay, they become the toast of the newly burgeoning society. Anna and Robert appear to have it all, but in a town like Miami, appearances can be deceiving, and one scandal can change everything.
Years later following the tragic death of her parents in Havana, Carmen Acosta journeys to Marbrisa, the grand home of her estranged older sister, Carolina, and her husband, Asher Wyatt. On the surface, the gilded estate looks like paradise, but Carmen quickly learns that nothing at Marbrisa is as it seems. The house has a treacherous legacy, and Carmenโs own life is soon in jeopardy . . . unless she can unravel the secrets buried beneath the mansionโs facade and stop history from repeating itself.
The Book of Thorns by Hester Fox
April 2, 2024
Hester Fox delivers an enchanting tale of secrets, betrayal, and magic!
Penniless and stranded in France after a bid to escape her cruel uncle goes awry, Cornelia Shaw is far from the Parisian life of leisure she imagined. Desperate and lacking options, she allows herself to be recruited to Napoleonโsย Grande Armรฉe. As a naturalist, her near-magical ability to heal any wound with herbal mixtures invites awe amongst the soldiersโฆand suspicion. For behind Corneliaโs vast knowledge of the natural world is a secret she keeps hiddenโthe flowers speak to her through a mysterious connection she has felt since childhood. One that her mother taught her to heed, before she disappeared.
Then, as Napoleonโs army descends on Waterloo, the flowers sing to her of a startling revelation: a girl who bears a striking resemblance to Cornelia. A girl she almost remembersโher sister, lost long ago, who seems to share the same gifts. Determined to reunite with Lijsbeth despite being on opposite sides of the war, Cornelia is drawn into a whirlwind of betrayal, secrets, and lies. Brought together by fate and magic at the peak of the war, the sisters try to uncover the key to the source of the power that connects them as accusations of witchcraft swirl and threaten to destroy the very lives theyโve fought for.
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Historical Romance April 2024 Book Releases
Earls Trip by Jenny Holiday
April 23, 2024
Ted Lassoย meetsย Bridgertonย for a 19th century spin on The Hangover inย USA Todayย bestselling author Jenny Holidayโs laugh-out-loud bromantic comedy featuring three Regency-era Earls on their annual trip โ ride-or-die buddies offering one another unconditional support in everything from Lady problems to family woes.
Even an earl needs his ride-or-dies, and Archibald Fielding-Burton, the Earl of Harcourt, counts himself lucky to have two. The annual trip that Archie takes with his BFFs Simon and Effie holds a sacred spot in their calendars. This year Archie is especially eager to get away until an urgent letter arrives from an old family friend, begging him to help prevent a ruinous scandal. Suddenly the trip has become earls-plus-girls, as Archieโs childhood pals, Clementine and Olive Morgan, are rescued en route to Gretna Green.
Thisโฆcomplicates matters. The fully grown Clementine, while as frank and refreshing as he remembers, is also different to the wild, windswept girl he knew. This Clem is complex and surprisingโand adamantly opposed to marriage. Which, for reasons Archie dare not examine too closely, he finds increasingly vexing.
Then Clem makes him an indecent and quite delightful proposal, asking him to show her the pleasures of the marriage bed before she settles into spinsterhood. And what kind of gentleman would he be to refuse a lady?
Paranormal Romance April 2024 Book Releases
The Beloved by J.R. Ward
April 9, 2024
The daughter of a legend finds the love of a lifetime in this passionate, heart-wrenching installment in J.R. Wardโs #1ย New York Timesย bestselling Black Dagger Brotherhood series.
Nalla, the blooded daughter of Zsadist, has led a sheltered life. Protected by her father and the Brotherhood, kept away from the deadly war with the Lessening Society, she is chafing against the walls of the very safety that has ensured her survival. One night, she gives in to her restlessnessโฆand finds herself face-to-face with a male whose inner darkness rivals even that of her sireโs horrific origins.
Nate is a fighter with nothing to loseโand nothing to live for. Tortured in a human lab as a young, then cursed with immortality, he is all vengeance and no purpose because he cares for no oneโnot even himself. The Brotherhood knows this all too well and following Nateโs deliberate violation of the cardinal rule in the war, they declare him a dangerous liability that must be dealt with.
When Nalla and Nate find themselves fighting side by side, daggers arenโt the only things that fly. A sizzling attraction is ignited, though Nalla knows her sire will never accept himโand on his side, Nate has made a secret bargain to end his own immortality. As the enemy closes in, and Nalla realizes she must choose between her mate and her sire, what starts with such passion may well end with eternal sorrow and no chance of a reunionโeven in the Fade.
Urban Fantasy April 2024 Book Releases
Archangel’s Lineage by Nalini Singh
April 23, 2024
New York Timesย bestselling author Nalini Singhโs dangerous and beautiful world of archangels, vampires, and mortals has never faced a threat this cataclysmicโฆ
Raphael and Elena are experiencing their first ever year of true peace. No war. No horrors of archangelic power. No nightmares given flesh. Untilโฆthe earth beneath the Refuge begins to tremble, endangering not only angelkindโs precious and fragile young, but the very place that has held their most innocent safe for eons.
Amid the chaos, Elenaโs father suffers a violent heart attack that threatens to extinguish their last chance to heal the bonds between them and make sense of the ruins of their agonizing shared history.
Even as Elena battles grief, Raphael is torn from her side by the sudden disappearance of an archangel. But worse yet is to come. An Ancestor, an angel unlike any other, stirs from his Sleep to warn the Cadre of a darkness so terrible that it causes empires to fall and civilizations to vanish.
This time, even the Cadre itself may not be able to stop a ticking clock that is counting down at frightening speedโฆ
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Thanks for the post.
LOL, you are so right about all the new shinies making the struggle to read all the books even harder. I was able to read and adore two of those: House on Biscayne Bay and Archangel’s Lineage. Hope to get to The Beloved soon.