Outstanding Reading | April Starred Reviews

Help readers find their next great read with these starred picks from the April issue. Across audio, graphic novels, a range of genres, and multiple nonfiction subjects, there is something for all kinds of readers and listeners.

AUDIO

Hart, Emilia. The Sirens. Macmillan Audio.

Kinsella, Sophie. What Does It Feel Like? Books on Tape.

Palahniuk, Chuck. Shock Induction. S. & S. Audio.

MYSTERY & SUSPENSE

Abbott, Megan. El Dorado Drive. Putnam.

Deaver, Jeffery. South of Nowhere. Putnam.

Higgins, Jeffrey James. The Havana Syndrome. Severn River.

Horowitz, Anthony. Marble Hall Murders. Harper.

Jordan, Richard Tyler. Murder and a Missing Manuscript. Oliver-Heber.

Landau, A.J. Cold Burn. Minotaur: St. Martin’s.

Pitts, Delia. Death of an Ex. Minotaur: St. Martin’s.

Quinn, Spencer. Mrs. Plansky Goes Rogue. Forge.

Rao, Nilima. A Shipwreck in Fiji. Soho Crime.

SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY

Bear, Elizabeth. The Folded Sky. S. & S./Saga.

Darkshire, Oliver. Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil. Norton.

Elliott, Kate. The Witch Roads. Tor.

Stevenson, M. Behooved. Bramble.

Tchaikovsky, Adrian. Shroud. Orbit.

Weed, Tim. The Afterlife Project. Podium.

Wexler, Django. Everybody Wants To Rule the World Except Me. Orbit.

HORROR

Durbin, Frederic S. The Country Under Heaven. Melville House.

Starling, Caitlin. The Starving Saints. Harper Voyager.

Wagner, Wendy N. Girl in the Creek. Tor Nightfire.

ROMANCE

Adler, Sarah. Finders Keepers. Berkley.

De Cadenet, Gia. Give Me a Shot. Dell.

Kate, Lauren. The Spirit of Love. Putnam.

Lowell, Joanna. A Rare Find. Berkley.

Woods, Lenora. Roll for Romance. Dell.

FICTION

Aciman, André. Room on the Sea: Three Novellas. Farrar.

Amerie. This Is Not a Ghost Story. Morrow.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby: And Stories from All the Sad Young Men. Penguin Classics.

Matsuie, Masashi. The Summer House. Other Pr.

Oates, Joyce Carol. Fox. Hogarth.

Rosen, Amy. Off Menu. ECW.

Rosen, Jane L. Songs of Summer. Berkley.

Stiefvater, Maggie. The Listeners. Viking.

GRAPHIC NOVELS

Auster, Paul (text) & Paul Karasik & others (illus.). Paul Auster’s “The New York Trilogy”: City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room. Pantheon.

Bechdel, Alison. Spent: A Comic Novel. Mariner.

Kriek, Erik. The Pit. Living the Line.

ARTS & HUMANITIES

Downes, Michael. Wagner and the Creation of the Ring. Pegasus.

Elie, Paul. The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s. Farrar.

Ford, Meg. Wild/Hurt: Poems. Button Poetry.

Rosenthal, Elizabeth J. The Master of Drums: Gene Krupa and the Music He Gave the World. Citadel.

Williams, Tennessee. Early Stories by Tennessee Williams. Univ. of Iowa.

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Great American Marine Corps Stories. Lyons.

Leavitt, Danielle. By the Second Spring: Seven Lives and One Year of the War in Ukraine. Farrar.

Platt, Stephen R. The Raider: The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces in World War II. Knopf.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Susskind, Richard. How To Think About AI: A Guide for the Perplexed. Oxford Univ.

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