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The Buzziest Books of April | 2024

The Buzziest Books of April | 2024

April was a month filled with extraordinary new releases to love! There were so many page-turning novels that captivated us from cover to cover this month. If you want to know what new books everyone has been talking about, then look no further than our list of April’s most noteworthy new reads. Happy reading!


The Mind of a Murderer (Dr. Olivia Winter Book 1)

by Michael Wood

Release Date: March 28, 2024

Now, a serial killer is stalking the streets of London. As the body count rises, the police need Olivia’s help to profile him before he can strike again. But to do so, she will need to confront her own demons…

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An Ideal Husband

by Erica James

Release Date: April 25, 2024

After a long and seemingly happy marriage, and a wonderful family Christmas, Louisa is stunned when husband Kip asks for a divorce on Boxing Day. He’d never seemed unhappy – and they’ve raised three children together. For months, Kip has been secretly seeing a younger woman – and if that wasn’t bad enough – it’s the woman who broke their youngest son’s heart.

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The Twilight Garden: A Novel

by Sara Nisha Adams

Release Date: April 9, 2024

Somewhere out there, a secret gardener made a decades-old promise to keep the community’s spirit alive. Now it’s time for The Twilight Garden to come out of hibernation.

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Habitations: A Novel

by Sheila Sundar

Release Date: April 2, 2024

A young academic moves from India to the United States, where she navigates first love, a green card marriage, single motherhood, and more in this “delightful novel, written with immediacy, warmth, and wry humor” (Ha Jin, National Book Award–winning author of Waiting).

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Dark Parts of the Universe

by Samuel Miller

Release Date: April 23, 2024

Outer Banks meets Bone Gap in New York Times bestselling author Samuel Miller’s propulsive and genre-bending YA mystery, following a group of teenagers who discover a dead body while playing an app-based adventure game that sends players to “random” locations, unlocking a much deeper mystery about their small town. 

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The Wives: A Memoir

by Simone Gorrindo

Release Date: April 9, 2024

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.

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Midnight of Ashes (Dragons of Ember Hollow Book 2)

by Tessa Hale

Release Date: April 19, 2024

When nineteen-year-old Abbey Bly gets the opportunity to study abroad for a year in London, it’s the perfect chance to finally slip out from under the thumb of her beloved but overbearing retired rock star father. She’s ready to be free, to discover herself—until she arrives at her gorgeous new flat to discover those roommates are actually all boys.

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Lost Birds: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito

by Anne Hillerman

Release Date: April 23, 2024

From New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman, a thrilling and moving chapter in the Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series involving several emotionally complex cases that will test the detectives in different ways.

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The Silent Chase (Chase Fulton Novels Book 26)

by Cap Daniels

Release Date: April 1, 2024

Step onto a battlefield without boundaries where the true enemy may never be heard approaching. Experience the crushing silence and feel the desperation as the deadly hunt unfolds.

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