April 2022 Most Anticipated New Book Releases


april 2022 books new release most anticipated upcoming titles to read coming soon

Notable upcoming books to be published in April 2022, limited to hardcover new releases. Here are the most anticipated books releases for the month:

Insomnia
Sarah Pinborough

What It's About: In this twisty, mind-bending thriller from the bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes, Emma Averell worries that her crippling insomnia is a sign that she’s slowly going insane—like the mother she’s worked so hard to leave in her past.

Emma Averell loves her life—her high-powered legal career, her two beautiful children, and her wonderful stay-at-home husband—but it wasn’t always so perfect...

Publication Date: March 30, 2022
  
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The Younger Wife
Sally Hepworth

What It's About: THE HUSBAND
A heart surgeon at the top of his field, Stephen Aston is getting married again. But first he must divorce his current wife, even though she can no longer speak for herself.

THE DAUGHTERS
Tully and Rachel Aston look upon their father’s fiancée, Heather, as nothing but an interloper...

Publication Date: October 26, 2021
  
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Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel

What It's About: A novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.

Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party...

Publication Date: April 5, 2022
  
sci fi science fiction time travel


Portrait of a Thief
Grace D. Li

What It's About: Ocean’s Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums; about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity.

History is told by the conquerors...

Publication Date: April 5, 2022
  
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Sister Stardust
Jane Green

What It's About: A PARADE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR
A NEW YORK POST BEST BOOK OF THE WEEK

In her first novel inspired by a true story, Jane Green re-imagines the life of troubled icon Talitha Getty in this transporting story from a forgotten chapter of the Swinging '60s

From afar Talitha's life seemed perfect...

Publication Date: April 5, 2022
  
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Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus

What It's About: An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality...

Publication Date: March 31, 2022
  
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The No-Show
Beth O'Leary

What It's About: Siobhan is a quick-tempered life coach with way too much on her plate. Miranda is a tree surgeon used to being treated as just one of the guys on the job. Jane is a soft-spoken volunteer for the local charity shop with zero sense of self-worth.

These three women are strangers who have only one thing in common: They've all been stood up on the same day, the very worst day to be stood up--Valentine's Day...

Publication Date: April 12, 2022
  
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I'll Be You
Janelle Brown

What It's About: 11 hours, 41 minutes

Two identical twin sisters and former child actors have grown apart--until one disappears, and the other is forced to confront the secrets they've kept from each other in this twisty thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Things.

"You be me, and I'll be you," I whispered...

Publication Date: April 26, 2022
  
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Take My Hand
Dolen Perkins-Valdez

What It's About: Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench.

Montgomery, Alabama 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference, especially in her African American community...

Publication Date: April 12, 2022
  
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Four Treasures of the Sky
Jenny Tinghui Zhang

What It's About: Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to survive...

Publication Date: April 5, 2022
  
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Elektra
Jennifer Saint

What It's About: The House of Atreus is cursed. A bloodline tainted by a generational cycle of violence and vengeance. This is the story of three women, their fates inextricably tied to this curse, and the fickle nature of men and gods.

Clytemnestra
The sister of Helen, wife of Agamemnon - her hopes of averting the curse are dashed when her sister is taken to Troy by the feckless Paris...

Publication Date: April 26, 2022
  
mythology fantasy greek mythology

Write for Your Life
Anna Quindlen

What It's About: In this clarion call to pick up a pen and find yourself from "one of our most astute chroniclers of modern life" (The New York Times Book Review), #1 New York Times bestselling author Anna Quindlen shows us how anyone can write, and why everyone should.

What really matters in life? What truly lasts in our hearts and minds? Where can we find community, history, humanity? In this lyrical new book, the answer is clear: through writing...

Publication Date: April 12, 2022
  
writing non fiction memoir


City on Fire
Don Winslow

What It's About: New York Times Bestseller!

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy (The Power of the Dog, The Cartel, and The Border), The Force, and Broken comes the first novel in an epic new trilogy.

“Superb. City on Fire is exhilarating.” – Stephen King

"Epic, ambitious, majestic, City on Fire is The Godfather for our generation...

Publication Date: October 21, 2021
  
crime thriller mystery


The School for German Brides: A Novel of World War II
Aimie K. Runyan

What It's About: In this intriguing historical novel, a young woman who is sent to a horrific "bride school" to be molded into the perfect Nazi wife finds her life forever intertwined with a young Jewish woman about to give birth.


Germany, 1939

As the war begins, Hanna Rombauer, a young German woman, is sent to live with her aunt and uncle after her mother's death...

Publication Date: April 26, 2022
  
historical fiction wwii historical


The Candy House (Goon Squad #2)
Jennifer Egan

What It's About: From one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity, privacy, and meaning in a world where our memories are no longer our own—featuring characters from A Visit from the Goon Squad.

It’s 2010...

Publication Date: April 5, 2022
  
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