14 April releases to add to your TBR
April is always a huge month for new releases and April 2025 is delivering with horror, romance, sci-fi comics, romantasy and even a non-fiction I have my eyes on.
I have a very, very busy April with a huge (and nerve-wracking) adventure that is going to take up the middle chunk of the month and a few gigs at the beginning of the month for my favourite band’s final ever shows (I’m not crying, you’re crying) so I don’t know how much I’ll actually get to read as the podcast reading takes priority. Oh but I’ll build an excessive TBR as usual, and a whole bunch of these titles are on it.
I’ll be finishing some series, exploring some new authors, revisiting some favourites, and continuing a few of my favourite series.
‘The Thorns’ by Dawn Kurtagich (1 April) - An author reconnects with an old boarding school friend, forcing her to reckon with their shared past and the imaginary creature she thought they left behind.
‘The Expanded Earth’ by Mickey Please (3 April) - Humankind has been reduced to the height of handspan - this beautifully illustrated debut novel marks the arrival of a new talent and perhaps a new genre - the world of the micropocalypse
‘Death and Other Occupational Hazards’ by Veronika Dapunt (4 April) - An original and darkly comedic murder mystery about a female personified Death in modern-day London.
‘Fearless’ by Lauren Roberts (8 April) - Paedyn Gray and Kai Azer return to the Kingdom of Ilya... And Paedyn has a life-altering choice to make. Whatever she decides will determine her fate – and the fate of those around her – forever.
‘Sky Daddy’ by Kate Folk (8 April) - Linda's secret is that she's sexually attracted to planes: their intelligent windscreens, sleek fuselages and powerful engines make her feel a way that no human lover ever could.
‘Boys with Sharp Teeth’ by Jenni Howell (10 April) - ‘We Were Liars’ meets ‘The Raven Boys’ in this steamy, mind-bending tale of revenge, sinister privilege and forbidden desires set at an elite boarding school.
‘The Book That Held Her Heart’ by Mark Lawrence (10 April) - The secret war that defines the library has chosen its champions and set them on the board.
‘Wild and Wrangled’ by Lyla Sage (15 April) - She's the one that got away. He's the one that never let her go.
‘Saga: Volume 12’ by Brian K Vaughan (15 April) - ‘Saga’ follows new parents Marko and Alana as they risk everything to raise their child amidst a never-ending galactic war.
‘Some Body Like You’ by Lucy Lapinska (17 April) - As the world falls apart around them, piece by piece, Abigail Fuller spends humanity's final days looking after her husband David. But that's not true, not really. Abigail isn't David's wife. She's not even human. She's a replacement, built in the image of the real Abigail, who died sixteen years ago.
‘Eat the Ones You Love’ by Sarah Maria Griffin (22 April) - A twisted, tangled story about workplace love-affairs, and plants with a taste for human flesh from the acclaimed author of ‘Spare and Found Parts’ and ‘Other Words for Smoke’. This is a story about possession, and monstrosity, and working retail. It is about hunger and desire, and other terrible things that grow.
‘Great Big Beautiful World’ by Emily Henry (22 April) - Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of an heiress with more than a few plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry.
‘What If I Never Get Over You’ by Paige Toon (24 April) - Three days to fall in love. Six years to try to forget. Three blistering days in Lisbon is all it takes to form an unforgettable connection – deep enough for them to plan to meet again in Madrid. But Ellie arrives late, and Ash is nowhere to be found.
‘Vanishing World’ by Sayaka Murata (24 April) - In our near-future world, children are solely conceived by artificial insemination. Even sex between married couples is viewed as taboo.
I love this time of year for book releases and I cannot wait to get stuck in to the new releases coming up in April.
Written by Sophie
