New Historical Fiction To Move to The Top of Your List
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New Historical Fiction at the Top of My List
The beginning of April means not only a new month, but a new season, and with it comes a new chapter of the year, and let me just say that this new chapter is full of so many great new releases.
A Bildungsroman Based in Berlin
If you’ve ever felt lonely in a crowded room or lonely among beloveds, befriend this book. If you crave descriptive, lyrical language with palpable tension, reach for this work, which joins the amazing company of outstanding novels by poets.
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What To Read for the Read Harder Challenge in April 2025
It’s impossible to keep up with all the intriguing new books that come out every month. We do monthly new releases round-ups for each of our genre newsletters, but even when we recommend 17 new romance books out in April, that’s only scratching the surface.
Floral Bookmarks for Spring? Groundbreaking.
In recent years, I’ve really leaned into living seasonally. It’s so easy for time to blend together if you don’t deliberately look for ways to delineate it. For 2025, I made myself a bingo board of spring activities I’d like to get to. Things like going to a farmer’s market, or having a picnic, or visiting my local floral display gardens. Even little nods to the season like swapping out a few decorations can remind you to appreciate the arrival of spring. And that’s why I’ve gathered together some beautiful floral bookmarks for you to incorporate into your reading life this season.
Three Poetry Books to Read with Your Kids
In 1996, the Academy of American Poets established National Poetry Month to help promote poetry’s role in American life and culture and encourage readers of all ages to engage with and enjoy poetry. While reading and understanding poetry sometimes gets a reputation for being a complex, academic exercise, poetry is meant to be enjoyed by everyone and April offers an opportunity to incorporate poems into your family’s reading life. Not only do rhythmic and/or rhyming words help develop literacy skills in young children, exposing kids to poetry also helps them see the exciting and varied forms written language can take.
Mystery Books With Rotating Protagonists & Sprayed Edges!
While both of these elements are very common in the romance/romantasy genre, I’ve recently noticed them popping up in the mystery genre, too. I thought it would be fun to round up two mystery series with rotating protagonists and a mystery, thriller, and horror novel with sprayed edges.
13 Bi4Bi Romance Books
What’s better than one bisexual character in a romance novel? Two bisexuals falling in love with each other in a romance romance novel, of course. That should go without saying. It’s not as unusual as you might think, either. I actually had a hard time narrowing down this list. Bi4Bi romance books where one bisexual person falls for another bisexual person are the epitome of bisexuality in all its glory. A bi4bi romance could feature a woman falling for a man, a woman falling for another woman, a man falling for a man, a man or woman or nonbinary person falling for a man or woman or nonbinary person–you get it. There’s basically no limit to the possibilities here. It’s like relationship roulette, except it’s all bisexuals all the time and everybody lives and nobody dies.
