7 New Books Coming This April
I’m kicking this off with some exciting news. Avocado Diaries has recently been featured in the Top 100 Canadian Book Influencers list. This also happens to be my 400th post and 4th year of Avocado Diaries. I’m so grateful for all the connections and book lovers I've met through here, thank you!
Reflecting on last month, I devoured fourteen books. Some highlights include The Tell by Amy Griffin, Luminous by Silvia Park, Don’t Let Him In by Lisa Jewell, Dream State by Eric Puchner, and Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams.
As we move into April, there is so much I’m excited for this month. Here are 7 books that I can’t wait to read.
One of this year’s most highly anticipated reads is from the New York Times bestselling author of Happy Place and Funny Story. Emily Henry’s latest, releasing April 22, is an epic romance about two writers who compete to write the larger-than-life biography of a famous heiress. Be sure to check out the audiobook, narrated by the amazing Julia Whelan.
A GoodReads hottest debut, Favorite Daughter is forthcoming from Calgary-based writer Morgan Dick, whose fiction has appeared in multiple publications. Drawing from the author’s time working in the mental health field, we follow two half-sisters who have never spoken (or met), and who are thrown together by their problematic father’s dying wish.
The cover from illustrator Joel Burden and designer Josie Staveley Taylor is an absolute home run. Read more about it on Morgan’s Substack here.
From debut author Sarah Damoff, The Bright Years is a luminous and meditative multigenerational novel spanning decades. With themes of addiction, trauma, and the power of a loving family, both biological and chosen, this title is not to be missed. On sale April 22. Read my full review here.
From the author of the short story collection Out There, Kate Folk’s forthcoming novel is generating a lot of buzz and has received advanced praise from Ling Ma, Iain Reid and Weike Wang. Called “bizarre and endearing” by Oprah Daily, we follow a woman named Linda, a content moderator who is sexually obsessed with planes. Yes, you read that right. “Audaciously imagined and surprisingly tender” (Rachel Yoder), Sky Daddy is on sale April 8.
From Laurel Prize recipient, Seán Hewitt’s forthcoming debut Open, Heaven and is set in a remote village in the north of England, takes place over the course of one year, and follows two teenage boys who meet and transform each other’s lives. “A searching novel orbiting pleasure, loss, and the ecstatic release of both” (Kaveh Akbar), this beauty is on sale April 15.
From award-winning Palestinian American journalist Sarah Aziza, a deeply intimate memoir at the intersection of personal trauma and cultural displacement. By weaving together her own battle with anorexia and the history of her Palestinian roots, Aziza demonstrates the impact of war on future generations while creating a layered narrative that speaks to the complexities of identity in the Palestinian diaspora. This breathtaking memoir is on sale April 22.
From the winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Lucy Caldwell, These Days is set in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of the Belfast Blitz in April 1941. We follow two sisters, one who is engaged to be married and the other who is in a secret relationship with another woman. The novel is told over the course of four nights as the sisters reckon with their futures in Belfast. "Adroit, precise storytelling, atmospheric and satisfying” (Hilary Mantel). On sale April 8.
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