This April’s New Book Releases Aren’t Making A Fool Of Us: April 2024 Releases

Hey Everyone! Happy April! I can’t believe that we are already a few months into this year…and it feels like it has been doing too much at times and in some ways, this year has felt like one elongated April Fool’s Day (not all of the year has been bad). Hopefully, this month and the rest of this year will treat us better! One thing that will be treating us well is publishing with how many books that are coming out this month so mentally prepare yourself for your TBR to grow a bit!

I was able to catch a few publishing date changes but I easily could’ve missed others so please be sure to double check (I’m sure pre-orders and library requests could be made though)! This is quite a long list so let’s get into it!

• The Monstrous Misses Mai by Van Hoang *adult* 4/1
• Lovers at the Museum: A Short Story by Isabel Allende *adult* 4/1
• Friends in Napa: A Novel by Sheila Yasmin Marikar *adult* 4/1
• Court Of Wanderers by Rin Chupeco *adult sequel* 4/2
• The Black Girl Survives In This One Edited by Desiree S. Evans & Saraceia J. Fennell 4/2
• A Witch’s Guide To Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna *adult sequel* 4/2
• The Misdirection Of Fault Lines by Anna Garcia 4/2
• Running In Flip Flops From The End Of The World by Justin A. Reynolds *MG Sequel* 4/2
• A Crown of Stories: The Life and Language of Beloved Writer Toni Morrison By Carole Boston Weatherford, Ill. by Khalif Thompson *PB* 4/2
• Something Kindred by Ciera Burch 4/2
• Fate Be Changed: A Twisted Tale by Farrah Rochon 4/2
• Storm Dragons: Lightningborn by Julie Kagawa *MG* 4/2
• The Breakup Lists by Adib Khorram 4/2
• How To End A Love Story by Yulin Kuang *adult* 4/2
• The Not-So-Simple Question by Christina Matula *MG Sequel* 4/2
• Sashiko’s Stitches by Sanae Ishida *PB* 4/2
• My Mama Is A Work Of Art by Hana Acabado *PB* 4/2
• From My Head To My Toes by Ali Raisman, ill. By Bea Jackson *PB* 4/2
• Darker By Four by June CL Tan 4/2
• The Cemetery Of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez *adult* 4/2
• Choice: A Novel by Neel Mukherjee *adult* 4/2
• Her Exception 2 by B. Love *adult audio* 4/2
• Piper Chen Sings by Phillipa Soo, Maris Pasquale Doran, Ill. By Qin Leng *PB* 4/2
• My Love Story With Yamada-Kin At Lv999 by Mashiro 4/2
• Just Like Millie by Lauren Castillo *PB* 4/2
• And Yet You Shine: The Kohinoor Diamond, Colonization And Resistance by Supriya Kelkar *PB* 4/2
• The Murder Of Mr. Ma by SJ Rozan & John Shen Yen Nee *adult* 4/2
• What Made California The Golden State? By Shing Yin Khor, ill. By Kass Gray *MG* 4/2
• Monkey King And The World Of Myths: The Monster And The Maze by Maple Lam *MG* 4/2
• Cruzita And The Mariacheros by Ashley Granilla *MG* 4/2
• Ultra Violet by Aida Salazat *MG* 4/2
• The Juneteenth Cookbook: Recipes And Activities For Kids And Families To Celebrate by Alliah L. Agostini, Chef Taffy Elrod, ill. By Sawyer Cloud *PB* 4/2
• The Stone Home by Crystal Hana Kim *adult* 4/2
• I Am More Than by LeBron James, ill. By Nina Mata *PB* 4/2
• The Mango Tree by Annabelle Tometich *adult* 4/2
• Rainbow Days: The Orange Wall by Valerie Bolling *PB* 4/2
• Puerto Rico: A National History by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo *adult* 4/2
• The House Of Biscayne Bay by Chanel Cleeton *adult* 4/2
• The Audacity by Ryan Chapman *adult* 4/2
• La Tercera by Gina Apostol *adult* 4/2
• Ash Dark As Night by Gary Phillips *adult* 4/2
• The Rope Artist by Fuminori Nakamura *adult* 4/2
• Lola Meets The Bees by Anna McQuinn *PB* 4/9
• Back Home: Story Time With My Father by Arlene Elizabeth Casimir, ill. By Ken Daley *PB* 4/9
• Simple Thanks by Deborah Wiles & Bao Luu 4/9
• The Kiss Countdown by Etta Easton *adult* 4/9
• Canto Contigo by Jonny Garza Villa 4/9
• Against The Darkness by Kendare Blake 4/9
• Facing The Unseen by Damon Tweedy, M.D. *adult non-fiction* 4/9
• I Am Both by Kerisa Greene *adult* 4/9
• A Child’s Introduction To Asian American And Pacific Islander History by Naomi Hirahara, ill. By Sarah Demontaverde *PB* 4/9
• The Wild Ones/Los Bravos by Megan Lacera & Jorge Lacera *PG* 4/9
• Three Summers by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess *MG* 4/9
• Dragonfruit by Makiia Lucier 4/9
• Life Is Strange: Heatwaves by Brittney Morris 4/9
• Dragonfall by L.R. Lam 4/9
• Rogue Justice by Stacey Abrams *adult* 4/9
• The Disabled Tyrant’s Beloved Pet Fish Vol. 1 by Canji Baojun De Zhangxin Yu Chong *adult* 4/9
• Only For The Week by Natasha Bishop *adult audio* 4/9
• To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X. Chang 4/16
• You Know What You Did by K.T Nguyen *adult* 4/16
• This Is Me Trying by Racquel Marie 4/16
• The Lady Of Rapture by Sarah Raughley *sequel* 4/16
• We’re Never Getting Home by Tracy Badua 4/16
• The Spice Box by Meera Sriram, ill. By Sandhya Prabhat *PB* 4/16
• Weird Black Girls by Elwin Cotman *adult* 4/16
• When I Think Of You by Myah Ariel *adult* 4/16
• The Bootlegger’s Bounty by Adriana Herrera *adult Novella* 4/16
• Immortal Pleasures by V. Castor *adult* 4/16
• Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao 4/16
• Briefly Perfectly Human: Making An Authentic Life By Getting Real About The End by Alua Arthur *adult* 4/16
• Snowball Earth by Yuhiro Tsujitsugu 4/16
• A Maleta Full Of Treasures by Natalia Sylvester, ill. By Juana Medina *PB* 4/16
• The Band by Christine Ma-Kellams *adult* 4/16
• While We Were Burning by Sara Koffi *adult* 4/16
• Indian Burial Ground by Nick Medina *adult* 4/16
• Sami’s Special Gift by M.O. Yuksel *PB* 4/16
• If Lin Can: How Jeremy Lin Inspired Asian Americans To Shoot For The Stars by Richard Ho *MG* 4/16
• One Of Us Knows by Alyssa Cole *adult* 4/16
• King Of Dead Things by Nevin Holness 4/16
• Otis & Peanut Forever And Ever by Naseem Hrab, ill. By Kelly Collier *ER Series* 4/16
• Butter: A Novel Of Food And Murder by Asako Yuzuki *adult* 4/16
• One Last Word by Suzanne Park *adult* 4/16
• Churro Stand by Karina N. González *PB* 4/16
• Cook Simply, Live Fully by Yasmin Fahr *adult* 4/16
• Honey: A Novel by Victor Lodato *adult* 4/16
• Woke Up No Light: Poems by Leila Mottley *adult* 4/16
• The Dance Of Shadows by Rogba Payne *adult* 4/18
• The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan *adult* 4/23
• Bad Habit by Alana S. Portero *adult* 4/23
• Lucky Scramble by Peter Raymundo *MG* 4/23
• Cute Toot by Breanna J. McDaniel & Olivia de Castro *PB* 4/23
• The Good Ones Are Taken by Taj McCoy *adult* 4/23
• Blood Justice by Terry J. Benton-Walker *sequel* 4/23
• Off With Their Heads by Zoe Hana Mikuta 4/23
• Song Of The Six Realms by Judy I. Lin 4/23
• Kill Her Twice by Stacey Lee 4/23
• Saint-Seducing Gold by Brittany N. Williams *Sequel* 4/23
• Kicked Out By A. M. Dassu *MG* 4/23
• Archangel’s Lineage by Nalini Singh *adult* 4/23
• A Whisper In The Walls by Scott Reintgen 4/23
• Wild Dreamers by Margarita Engle 4/23
• Punk Rock Karaoke by Bianca Xunise 4/23
• Fake It Till You Make It by Siera London *adult* 4/23
• The Door Is Open edited by Hena Khan *MG* 4/23
• Dirty Pleasures by Kenya Wright *adult series audio* 4/23
• The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djeli Clark *adult novella* 4/23
• Ocean’s Godori by Elaine U. Cho *adult* 4/23
• One Of You by Erin E. Adams *adult* 4/23
• Sweetness In The Skin by Ishi Robinson *adult* 4/23
• Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All by Chanel Miller *MG* 4/23
• Out of Office by A.H. Cunningham *adult* 4/23
• Creating A Culture Of Repair: Taking Action On The Road To Reparations by Robert Turner *adult* 4/23
• The Husky & His White Cat Shizun by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou vol. 5 4/23
• Murder On Demand by Al Roker *adult series Audio* 4/23
• Bethany Meets Her Match by Lisa Lin *adult series* 4/24
• She A Baddie by Monique Fisher *adult Novella* 4/25
• The Strategist by Nadia Han *adult series* 4/29
• Sound The Gong by Joan He *sequel* 4/30
• What’s Eating Jackie Oh? By Patricia Park 4/30
• My Daddy Is A Cowboy by Stephanie Seales & C.G. Esperanza *PB* 4/30
• Real Americans by Rachel Khong *adult* 4/30
• King Of Sloth by Ana Huang *adult series* 4/30
• Pedro’s Yo-Yos: How a Filipino Immigrant Came to America and Changed the World of Toys By Rob Peñas, Ill. by Carl Angel *PB* 4/30
• The ABCs of Queer History by Dr. Seema Yasmin, ill. By Lucy Kirk *PB* 4/30
• Made In Asian America: A History For Young People by Erika Lee & Christina Soontornvat *MG* 4/30
• I Heard: An American Journey by Jaha Nailah Avery *PB* 4/30
• Missing White Woman by Kellye Garrett *adult* 4/30
• Where Was Goodbye? by Janice Lynn Mather 4/30
• The Best Worst Camp Out Ever by Joe Cepeda *MG* 4/30
• My Lost Freedom: A Japanese American World War II Story by George Takei, ill. By Michelle Lee *PB* 4/30
• Built To Last by Minh Le, ill. By Dan Santat *PB* 4/30
• Archie Celebrates An Indian Wedding by Mitali Banerjee Ruths *ER Series* 4/30
• Fake Chinese Sounds by Jing Jing Tsong *MG* 4/30
• The Strategist By Nadia Han *adult series audio* 4/30
• The Swans Of Harlem by Karen Valby *adult* 4/30
• No One’s Gonna Take Her Soul Away by Amanda B. Weaver *adult* 4/30
• Mister President by B. Love *adult series audio* 4/30
• Prom Babies by Kekla Magoon 4/30
• It’s All In The Hips by Diana Munoz Stewart *adult* 4/30
• The Chain: Love, Betrayal, And The Sisterhood That Heals Us by Chimene Suleyman *adult* 4/30
• Disability Intimacy: Essays On Love, Care And Desire Edited By Alice Wong *adult* 4/30
• The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste 4/30

April is really not joking around and is trying to show out with all these new books… And I am not mad at it! Of these books, I had received quite a few ARCs and they are:

• Court Of Wanderers by Rin Chupeco *adult sequel*
• The Black Girl Survives In This One Edited by Desiree S. Evans & Saraceia J. Fennell
• Something Kindred by Ciera Burch
• Fate Be Changed: A Twisted Tale by Farrah Rochon
• Storm Dragons: Lightningborn by Julie Kagawa *MG*
• The Breakup Lists by Adib Khorram
• How To End A Love Story by Yulin Kuang *adult*
• The Kiss Countdown by Etta Easton *adult*
• A Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X. Chang
• When I Think Of You by Myah Ariel *adult*
• The Bootlegger’s Bounty by Adriana Herrera *adult Novella*
• The Good Ones Are Taken by Taj McCoy *adult*
• Blood Justice by Terry J. Benton-Walker *sequel*
• Song Of The Six Realms by Judy I. Lin
• Kill Her Twice by Stacey Lee
• Saint-Seducing Gold by Brittany N. Williams *Sequel*
• Sound The Gong by Joan He *sequel*
• What’s Eating Jackie Oh? By Patricia Park
• The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste

And of these ARCs, I have read:

• Court Of Wanderers by Rin Chupeco *adult sequel*
• The Black Girl Survives In This One Edited by Desiree S. Evans & Saraceia J. Fennell
• Something Kindred by Ciera Burch
• The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste
• Currently Reading: How To End A Love Story by Yulin Kuang *adult*

We are seriously about to get some really great books this month and I can’t wait for them to be out in the world. I may have missed some Authors Of Color’s titles so please let me know which ones here in the comments or on social media on Instagram @bookishgirlmagic (look out for lives and the occasional post), Twitter (I will forever call it this) @bookishgrlmagic, Threads @bookishgirlmagic (I’m slowly increasing my posting on there) and Clubhouse @bookishgrlmagic where you can find me mostly in book centered clubs/rooms (mostly on Tuesdays and Fridays) to chat with me. Also let me know if there are any books that YOU are excited about! I most certainly wanna know! Oh and please subscribe to this blog if you haven’t already because it makes me feel like I’ve not been a bookish fool! And to those who are subscribed, you have my continued thanks, I really truly appreciate y’all! I’m sending bookish love and wishing you happy reading always!