This month, a myriad of new and notable books are coming out. This includes a new title from the National Book Award winner Colum McCann, a shocking exposé about Johnson & Johnson, and a fascinating biography by a former editor of Vanity Fair. We’ve got everything from breakneck thrillers to riveting history and fiction that’ll leave you breathless. These are the best books of April.
No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
An explosive, deeply reported exposé of Johnson & Johnson, one of America’s oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies—from an award-winning investigative journalist
Twist: A Novel
Each line is keenly crafted and every element is momentous in McCann’s ravishing deep dive into connectivity and estrangement, power and plunder, protest and sabotage, creativity and madness.
Accidentally on Purpose
Kristen Kish takes us on a journey filled with honesty and raw emotion, from a teenager feeling like an outsider to an empowered groundbreaker. Kristen leaves no crumbs! The world is a better place when people like Kristen stand in their truth, a reminder that everyone has a story.
Fun for the Whole Family: A Novel
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Smith, Jennifer E. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
When We Ride: A Novel
Award-winning memoirist and poet Rex Ogle’s searing first novel-in-verse is an unforgettable story of the power and price of loyalty.
When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines
rom the pages of Vanity Fair to the red carpets of Hollywood, editor Graydon Carter’s memoir revives the glamorous heyday of print magazines when they were at the vanguard of American culture
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng: A Darkly Funny, Gory, and Ghostly Horror Novel
In this explosive horror novel, a woman is haunted by inner trauma, hungry ghosts, and a serial killer as she confronts the brutal violence experienced by East Asians during the pandemic.
Say You'll Remember Me
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Just for the Summer comes a playful yet deeply emotional romance where one date is all it takes for two people to know they're perfect for each other . . . until one of them moves 2,000 miles away the next day.
The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne
A furious page-turner that kept me up way past my bedtime, a beautiful hymn to the lingering ghosts of Maine's French-Canadian past, and a harrowing meditation on what it means to assimilate into the great American experiment. The authenticity reaches up off the page and grabs you with two hands. Ron Currie is a literary beast.
Memorial Days: A Memoir
Memorial Days quietly took my breath away. Brooks lost her husband, the equally-awarded writer Tony Horwitz, when at 60 and apparently in the best of health, he dropped dead on his way to work. In this exquisitely written memoir, Brooks invites us into their marriage, their family, what she learned about our health system, and most poignantly into her coming to terms with what it means to grieve and survive it. Alternating between her home on Martha’s Vineyard and time she spent on a remote island in her home country Australia where she eventually went to truly let herself feel and work through the pain of her loss. In the spirit of such great books as Calvin Trillin’s About Alice or Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking– Memorial Days is a gift.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.