April brings a variety of new flowers and new fiction! This month’s LibraryReads, favorites of library staff from across the country, includes time travel, horror, fantasy, romance and historical fiction, among other great books. Read on to find a new tale to enjoy.
“Yesteryear” by Caro Claire Burke
Natalie is an influencer with a seemingly perfect life: perfect children, perfect husband, and a perfectly beautiful Idaho farm. Never mind the workers who actually run the farm, the nannies who care for the children. And never mind the women online who are jealous that Natalie can afford to be a trad wife who serves her family and, most importantly, her God. Natalie wakes one morning in her house… except it’s not. Electricity has been replaced by a fire, her children are dirty, and her husband is old and gruff. Where are the hidden cameras? Where is her real family? Creative, mind-bending, and incredibly well-written, this one is sure to be a blockbuster.
~Jenny Davies, Oak Creek Public Library, WI
“Thistlemarsh” by Moorea Corrigan
WWI nurse Mouse receives notice that she is next in line to inherit the Faerie-blessed Thistlemarsh Hall in the English countryside. But she must do the impossible: fix the crumbling manor in just one month with the surprise aid of a handsome Faerie who can help defeat the magic protecting the manor. Fantastic atmospheric style, worldbuilding elements and sympathetic characters.
~Kristin Skinner, Flat River Community Library, MI
“The Caretaker” by Marcus Kliewer
Macy thinks she’s finally caught a break when she answers an ad for a weekend house-sitting gig that pays a ridiculous amount of money, even if it comes with some… unsettling instructions. Unsettling turns eerie, which turns to horrifying as Macy realizes — too late — this is one job that she should have never accepted. The chills ramp up fast and never stop in this page-turner horror novel.
~Sharon Layburn, South Huntington Public Library, NY
“Go Gentle” by Maria Semple
Adora is an Upper West Side philosopher who seems to have her life together. She practices stoicism, and it keeps her grounded and happy — until it doesn’t. Who is the mysterious man who wants her to deliver a letter? What are her employers up to? How did she become a stoic? Readers follow along with Adora as she tries to find answers.
~Joan Hipp, LibraryReads Ambassador, NJ
“The Ending Writes Itself” by Evelyn Clarke
An oft-used trope — people lured to a remote island, then cut off from the outside world — gets a new life. Six writers, following the death of their famous host, must compete to finish his final manuscript for a massive payday. While hesitant at first, the competition soon becomes intense, no one is quite who they seem to be, and death stalks the halls. A wonderfully twisty mystery and a wickedly satirical look at the world of publishing.
~Beth Mills, New Rochelle Public Library, NY
Other favorites coming out in April:
- “Japanese Gothic” by Kylie Lee Baker
- “The Duke” by Anna Cowan
- “Start at the End” by Emma Grey
- “Molka” by Monika Kim
- “London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth” by Patrick Radden Keefe
