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Book a Day: April Reading List & Author Chats

April brings more Book a Day recommendations for your reading enjoyment and morale!

We’re posting a new or classic book recommendation each day to boost your book intake, with absorbing reads to occupy and entertain. Some of our Book a Day selections also feature Facebook Live events with authors. See our picks for April below!

Even though your book groups might not be meeting right now, we are lucky to still have ways to communicate. Share the news and follow us on Facebook and Twitter to never miss a dose…

April Selections

One of our recommended books for 2020 is Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby

One of our recommended books for 2020 is Brave Enough by Jessie DigginsOne of our recommended books is The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro ArikawaOne of our recommended books for 2019 is Kopp Sisters on the March by Amy StewartOne of our recommended books is Life of Pi by Yann MartelOne of our recommended books for 2020 is Weather by Jenny Offill

One of our recommended books is A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib

 

 

 

 

 

Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby

Brave Enough by Jessie Diggins
View our Facebook live chat with Jessie!

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

Kopp Sisters Series by Amy Stewart
View our Facebook live chat with Amy!

Life of Pi by Amy Stewart

Weather by Jenny Offill

A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib

 

One of our recommended books for 2020 is Later by Paul Lisicky

One of our recommended books for 2020 is The Last Summer of Ada BloomOne of our recommended books for 2020 is Afterlife by Julia AlvarezOne of our recommended books for 2020 is Oona Out of Order by Margarita MontimoreOne of our recommended books for 2020 is American Harvest by Marie Mutsuki MockettSourdough

One of our recommended books is Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

 

 

 

 

 

Later by Paul Lisicky
View our Facebook live chat with Paul!

The Last Summer of Ada Bloom by Martine Murray

Afterlife by Julia Alvarez

Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore
View our Facebook live chat with Margarita!

American Harvest by Marie Mutsuki Mockett

Sourdough by Robin Sloan

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

 

One of our recommended books is For Joshua by Richard Wagamese

One of our recommended books is Reason for Hope by Jane GoodallOne of our recommended books is Geek Love by Katherine DunnOne of our recommended books is Gnome Stories by Ander MonsonOne of our recommended books is Diary of a Drag Queen by Crystal RasmussenOne of our recommended books is Pretty Little Mistakes by Heather McElhatton

One of our recommended books for 2017 is The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald

 

 

 

 

 

For Joshua by Richard Wagamese

Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

The Gnome Stories by Ander Monson
View our Facebook live chat with Ander!

Diary of a Drag Queen by Crystal Rasmussen
View our Facebook live chat with Crystal!

Pretty Little Mistakes by Heather McElhatton

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald

 

One of our recommended books for 2018 is The Radium Girls by Kate Moore

Sigh, Gone by Phuc Tran is a coming of age memoir.One of our recommended books is The Bear by Andrew KrivakOne of our recommended books is Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline WoodsonOne of our recommended books is So We Can Glow by Leesa Cross-SmithOne of our recommended books is Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban

 

 

 

 

 

The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
View our Facebook live chat with Kate!

Sigh, Gone by Phuc Tran

The Bear by Andrew Krivak
View our Facebook live chat with Andrew!

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

So We Can Glow by Leesa Cross-Smith
View our Facebook live chat with Leesa!

Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban

The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin


We’ve got all of our Book a Day picks month-by-month on the blog!