New April 2026 Book Releases
Its a new month and with it comes a ton of new books. The April 2026 book releases are here, and there is something for everyone. There are thrillers, smutty love stories, romantasy adventures, and literary fiction. This month has it all, from edge of your seat thrillers and sweeping love stories to big fantasy adventures and books that will make you laugh and cry at the same time. Whether you read a book a week or just pick one up when something really catches your eye, this list has the next book to add to your TBR.
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4/7
A chance meeting in a small town video store sparks an intense, life-changing bond between an ambitious dreamer and a Hollywood heir — until he vanishes without explanation. Seven years later, they’re cast opposite each other in a hit TV show, and the past comes rushing back. A sweeping, romantic story about fate, secrets, and the connection you just can’t shake.
Yesteryear by Caro Clair Burke
What happens when the queen of cozy homesteading content wakes up in an actual 19th-century farmhouse? In this darkly funny novel, a lifestyle influencer with 8 million followers( and plenty of secrets behind her perfectly curated aesthetic) is suddenly stripped of every modern convenience and forced to live the rustic life she’s been selling. Part social satire, part survival thriller, it’s a wickedly smart read that asks: what does “traditional living” really cost?
London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe
When a young man is found dead in the Thames, his grieving parents uncover a secret life of fake identities, Russian oligarchs, and London’s criminal underworld. Patrick Radden Keefe peels back the glittering facade of one of the world’s wealthiest cities to reveal the dirty money underneath in what is equal parts true crime thriller and heartbreaking portrait of a family searching for the truth about their so
Love by the Book Jessica George
A novelist whose friends have all drifted away and a kindergarten teacher whose secret side hustle has cost her everything collide in a bookstore and form an unlikely friendship. Neither is looking for a confidante, and both are carrying secrets, but they just might be exactly what the other needs. A warm and charming story about loneliness, second chances, and the friendships that find you when you least expect them.
American Fantasy by Emma Straub
Newly divorced and turning fifty, Annie boards a cruise ship full of screaming superfans to see the boy band she loved in the nineties, expecting nothing more than a good time with her sister. What she finds instead is a long-lost version of herself. Emma Straub’s warm and witty novel is a love letter to nostalgia, second chances, and the idea that real passion never truly disappears.
4/14
Leave Your Mess at Home by Tolani Akinola
When a disgraced influencer quietly returns to Chicago after a decade away, her homecoming sets off a chain reaction among her three siblings, each quietly unraveling in their own way. By the time the whole family lands at the Thanksgiving table, a decade of secrets and long-buried resentments come pouring out. Funny, big-hearted, and deeply human, this is a story about what we owe our families, what we owe ourselves, and whether it’s ever too late to find your way back to the people you love.
Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker
A young man fleeing a crime he can barely remember takes refuge in his father’s house in Japan, only to find something deeply wrong with it. Across time, a young samurai in exile haunts the same walls, carrying secrets of her own. Two timelines, one cursed house, and a mystery buried beneath both. A beautifully eerie thriller that blurs the line between ghost story and psychological suspense.
When Cherry’s husband leaves for Hollywood and doesn’t come back, she’s left holding the pieces of a life she didn’t choose, including a house, a dog, and the humiliation of being the inspiration for his comic’s frumpy, unflattering leading lady. Then a chance encounter at a concert brings an old friend back into her life, one who knew her before any of it and has never once heard of Thursday. A tender and funny story about reinventing yourself after heartbreak and being truly seen, maybe for the first time.
When their exes got together right after their divorces, Thea and Alex did what any reasonable person would do: invented a story about being old friends and first loves out of spite. Two years later, the lie has somehow become the realest friendship either of them has. But when they’re invited on a two week beach vacation with the very couple that started it all, the lines between the story they’ve been telling and something more begin to blur. A fun and charming romance about the unexpected places a good lie can lead you.
The Art of Loving You Natasha Bishop
When their beloved mentor dies and leaves behind one last wish, a guarded influencer and the artist who broke her heart are forced onto a road trip together to complete a scavenger hunt in her honor. Old feelings resurface fast, but so do old wounds. A romantic and heartfelt story about second chances, letting your guard down, and whether love really can conquer all.
4/21
Would I Lie to You Nicole Blades
To everyone in her picture perfect New England neighborhood, Lu is a Pilates studio owner, devoted mom, and friendly neighbor. What none of them know is that she’s also a seasoned cat burglar with thirty years of international heists behind her and a shoebox full of fake passports under the bed. When her husband lands a dream job at a top biotech firm, Lu sees her chance to finally walk away from it all, until she discovers the move was orchestrated by her criminal employer and her last job is to steal classified code her own husband is developing. Slick, fast paced, and full of twists, this is a story about secrets, survival, and what happens when the life you’ve been living collides with the one you actually want.
A bored, burned out PhD student accidentally kills a problematic professor and discovers, to her surprise, that she feels great about it. What follows is a darkly comic spiral as Yrsa decides to keep going, turning her academic research on racial violence and feminist theory into something far more hands on. Sharp, subversive, and wickedly funny, this is a story about rage, justice, and how long you can outrun the consequences of your own liberation.
The Rolling Stones: The Biography by Bob Spitz
After five years of research and five decades of living inside the world of rock and roll, Bob Spitz takes a fresh and unflinching look at one of music’s greatest stories. At its core this is a book about two boys, Mick and Keith, and the complicated, unbreakable bond that made everything else possible. Spitz cuts through decades of myth and carefully managed narrative to get at the real thing, the magic, the wreckage, and the creative force that has kept the Rolling Stones in a category of their own for over sixty years.
Livonia Chow Mein: A Novel by Abigail Savitch-Lew
When two tenements burn to the ground in Brownsville in 1978, the survivors are certain they know who is responsible. But the truth runs much deeper. Spanning four generations of one Chinese immigrant family and stitched together by a community organizer who has never stopped fighting for the neighborhood, this stunning debut moves between past and present to unravel a mystery that is really a reckoning, with gentrification, the American Dream, and the collective amnesia that makes it all possible
Last Night in Brooklyn by Xochitl Gonzalez
Feeling trapped by a future that was never really hers to choose, a young woman in Fort Greene finds herself drawn into the orbit of a magnetic, larger than life fashion designer whose parties and fearlessness represent everything she’s never let herself want. But as she gets closer to his world, and to her wealthy banker cousin’s, the gleam begins to fade. Set against a pivotal election and a looming financial crisis, this is a rich and atmospheric story about ambition, belonging, and the quiet devastation of the American Dream.
4/28
We Burned So Bright by TJ Klume
After forty years together, Don and Rodney have lived a full life, but now they have exactly one month before a rogue black hole swallows the Earth whole. With time running out, they hit the road from Maine to Washington to settle some unfinished business, passing through a world by turns in denial, in despair, and achingly, beautifully alive. Tender and expansive, this is a love story about two men looking back on a lifetime together and asking whether it was enough, even when nothing will remain.
The Ballad of Falling Dragons Sarah J Parker
With blood on her hands and vengeance still burning in her chest, Raeve faces an impossible choice as the world hurtles toward its most devastating moonfall yet. Across the kingdom, Kaan fights to hold everything together as allies shift and enemies close in. But the greatest threat may be the truth buried deep in Raeve’s forgotten past, a secret powerful enough to change everything. Dark, propulsive, and packed with tension, this is epic fantasy at its most electrifying.
He’s the golden boy heir to a culinary empire with a secret he’s never let anyone see. She’s the razor sharp marketing executive who has beaten him at his own game more than once. Sebastian and Maya have been rivals since childhood, and they intend to keep it that way, until a twist of fate forces them to work together and makes that suddenly very complicated. A sharp and sizzling enemies to lovers romance about two people too stubborn to admit what’s been obvious all along.
The Hotel Guest by Rosemary Henningan
A decade after fleeing a luxury hotel in the French Alps with a secret she’s never spoken aloud, Kit is drawn back by a mysterious invitation, only to discover that a former flame is writing a book that could expose everything. What follows is a taut and atmospheric thriller about old loyalties, buried truths, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive. As new details surface about that fateful summer, Kit begins to wonder if the version she’s been living with is the real one at all
Liar’s Dice: A Novel Juliet Faithfull
When Dolores wakes up one morning to find her twin sister gone, shipped off to a hospital in London without explanation, she loses the only person who made the world make sense. Uprooted to Rio and told to act as if Mita never existed, Dolores refuses to let her sister disappear. Set against the backdrop of Brazil’s brutal dictatorship, this is a fierce and moving story about grief, loyalty, and one girl’s determination to uncover the truth her parents are desperate to keep buried.
I hope you found something to add to your TBR for the month of April. What book are you looking forward to the most?
