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New Books April 2025
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items If you are in the market for a great read this month, check out these new releases that are sure to keep you glued to the edge of your seat.
A compulsively readable queer sci-fi novel about a marriage of convenience between a Mars politician and an Earth refugee.
The Mars House: A Novel
Megan Kamalei Kakimoto's wrenching and sensational debut story collection presents a Hawai'i where unruly sexuality and generational memory overflow the postcard image of paradise and the boundaries of the real, where the superstitions born of the is...
Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare
Fifteen-year-old Andrew Aziza lives in Kontagora, Nigeria, where his days are spent about town with his friends, fantasizing about white girls. When he's not in church, at school, or attempting to form “Africa's first superheroes,” he obsesses over m...
The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa
From acclaimed historian John Ferling, a major, global reappraisal of the Revolutionary War on its 250th Anniversary.
Shots Heard Round the World: America, Britain, and Europe in the Revolutionary War
The internationally bestselling author of The Anarchy returns with a sparkling, soaring history of ideas, tracing South Asia's under-recognized role in producing the world as we know it.
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
From the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version of Japan where sex between married couples has vanished and all children are born by artifi...
Vanishing World
Coworkers at a legendary but troubled New York City museum struggle with issues large and small over the course of one extraordinary day in this whip-smart “marvel” (Mona Awad, bestselling author of Bunny) of a novel in the vein of The White Lotus.
Friends of the Museum: A Novel
A mesmerizing spin through the high-rolling high times of 1970s New York and Detroit, Nettie Jones’s Fish Tales is a lost classic taking its rightful place in the spotlight.
Fish Tales: A Novel
A stunning debut novel from the acclaimed young Irish poet Seán Hewitt, reminiscent of Garth Greenwell and Justin Torres in the intensity of its evocation of sexual awakening
Open, Heaven: A Novel
In this heart-wrenching debut novel, a young Black gay man, estranged from his father, must confront his painful past—and his deepest desires around gender, love, and sex.
When the Harvest Comes: A Novel
In Fugitive Tilts, the poet Ishion Hutchinson turns to prose to create an incomplete biography of love: love of poetry, discovered in childhood; love of home, with its continual disconnections and returns; and love of the works and artists—from Treas...
Fugitive Tilts: Essays
With the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, the U.S. war in Vietnam ended, but the refugee crisis was only beginning. Among the millions of people who fled Vietnam by boat were Vinh Nguyen, along with his mother and siblings, and his father, who left ...
The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse: A Memory of Vietnam
Learn to make elevated, professional-quality meals in your own kitchen with over 100 creative, seasonal recipes from Hailee Catalano
By Heart: Recipes to Hold Near and Dear
From the acclaimed author of The Wilds comes an electric story collection that blends folklore, fairy tales, Southern Gothic, and horror, reveling in the collision of the familiar with the wildly surreal.
Hellions: Stories
Together, Edward and Isabel move to London. They are young and in love, occupied by friends, work and fun. But late on a spring evening when they are thirty years old, their home is invaded by a serial killer. In the wake of this violation, each trie...
The Death of Us: A Novel
From a rising-star author, winner of the both the Bram Stoker® and Nebula Awards, a richly inventive, brutal and beautiful science-fantasy novella. A story of family, loss, oppression and rebellion that will stay with you long after the final page. F...
A Palace Near the Wind: Natural Engines
In the heart of Adenashire, where elvish enchantments and dwarven delights rule, human baker Arleta Starstone works twice as hard at perfecting her unique blend of baking with apothecary herbs. So, when her orc neighbor (and biggest fan) secretly ent...
A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic
A pill that gets rid of your guilt? Could it be too good to be true?
The Guilt Pill
On the rocky shores of Lake Superior, a piercing story of selfhood and determinism develops: is the future what we're handed or what we make of it?
A Lesser Light
For a culinary tour of Italy, or a master class in creating the nation's many regional gems in your home kitchen, you couldn't ask for a better tour guide than Cathy Whims. In her debut cookbook, Cathy brings together dishes from Italy's many and var...
The Italian Summer Kitchen: Timeless Recipes for La Dolce Vita
Sometimes, you have to lose everything to find yourself. Everything you thought your life was supposed to be burned away like ash. Then, like the Phenix you rise from the ashes, unstoppable.
Dark Night of the Soul eBook by Nicole Dake - Rakuten Kobo