What Will You Read This April 2026?

By Rachel Tran | January 20 2026 | Staff Picks

Request eGalleys of some of our favorite April titles, and if you love the books, please consider nominating them for LibraryReads! Remember, voting for the April list ends on 3/1.

View our featured picks below, or browse extended collections in fiction and nonfiction.

Browse a Spanish language collection of April titles here.

A Novel
A traditional American woman, a beautiful wife and mother who sells her pioneer lifestyle of raw milk and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of social media followers, suddenly awakens cold, filthy, and terrified in the brutal reality of 1855—where she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far more sinister in this sensational debut novel. "A bold and biting satire, Yesteryear…will have you cackling and gasping right to the final page."—Nita Prose, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid series

"Maria Semple is a treasure." —Los Angeles Times The New York Times bestselling author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette returns to form in her most exuberant and life-affirming novel yet with the story of one woman’s cheerful determination to live a life of the mind only to have the heart force its way in.

A Novel
She can hop into any novel, but she just can’t stay there. Come along with the Book Witch in this magical and inspiring love letter to reading from the USA Today bestselling author of The Wishing Game.

A Novel
“Tolani Akinola is a gifted, powerful new voice in American fiction.”—Rachel Khong, New York Times bestselling author of Real Americans "A warm, smart, hilarious, delicious, riveting" (Curtis Sittenfeld) debut about the uncomfortable, unbreakable ties of family as four adult siblings come home to confront the state of their own lives and each other

A Novel
An immersive, page-turning novel about surviving as a funny woman in the male-dominated world of comedy—and what happens when the most promising female star of her generation disappears.“An utterly addictive read.”—Amy Tintera, New York Times bestselling author of Listen for the Lie

A Love Story
AN ASTONISHING LOVE STORY FROM JENNA BUSH HAGER’S NEW VENTURE, THOUSAND VOICES From the award-winning author of Songs in Ursa Major comes an epic, decade-spanning love story that blazes through the worlds of acting and comedy, and charts a connection so powerful it might just break space and time itself.