Here is our list of notable new releases due for publication in April 2020 — in a format that includes imprint info, and allows you resort the list by clicking the up/down arrows. This selection is our editorial aggregation from a wide variety of sources including bookseller and librarian lists, wholesaler top buys, Publishers Lunch Buzz Books and seasonal forecasts, well-known authors, news items and more. Once published, you can find them listed in the New Releases section at Bookateria. Lists are available at PM looking forward two to three months for reference purposes, and are updated live as on-sale dates and other information changes. Click for February and March lists.
FICTION
| Title | Author | On Sale | Imprint | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 978-1643750255 | Afterlife | Alvarez, Julia | 4/7 | Algonquin |
| 978-1250172648 | Dragman | Appleby, Steven | 4/7 | Metropolitan |
| 978-0525511489 | Conjure Women | Atakora, Afia | 4/7 | Random House |
| 978-0062953926 | Something She’s Not Telling Us | Bell, Darcey | 4/7 | Harper |
| 978-1948226486 | Godshot | Bieker, Chelsea | 4/7 | Catapult |
| 978-1641290418 | Three Hours in Paris | Black, Cara | 4/7 | Soho Crime |
| 978-0062933843 | The Silent Treatment | Greaves, Abbie | 4/7 | Morrow |
| 978-0062993861 | You and Me and Us | Hammer, Alison | 4/7 | Morrow |
| 978-0399585685 | Who Speaks for the Damned | Harris, C.S. | 4/7 | Berkley |
| 978-1683691433 | The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires | Hendrix, Grady | 4/7 | Quirk |
| 978-1984802897 | Hidden Salem | Hooper, Kay | 4/7 | Berkley |
| 978-0062939388 | The Astonishing Life of August March | Jackson, Aaron | 4/7 | Harper |
| 978-1250149442 | A Bad Day for Sunshine | Jones, Darynda | 4/7 | St. Martin's |
| 978-1982121433 | The Roxy Letters | Lowry, Mary Pauline | 4/7 | S&S |
| 978-1982133238 | Strike Me Down | Mejia, Mindy | 4/7 | Emily Bestler |
| 978-0525542445 | The Love Story of Missy Carmichael | Morrey, Beth | 4/7 | Putnam |
| 978-1324003380 | The Beauty of Your Face | Mustafah, Sahar | 4/7 | Norton |
| 978-0593084878 | A Tender Thing | Neuberger, Emily | 4/7 | Putnam |
| 978-0778310037 | One Perfect Summer | Novak, Brenda | 4/7 | Mira |
| 978-0593129524 | One Fatal Flaw | Perry, Anne | 4/7 | Ballantine |
| 978-1250216489 | The Stolen Gold Affair | Pronzini, Bill | 4/7 | Forge |
| 978-0358164081 | Chosen Ones | Roth, Veronica | 4/7 | John Joseph Adams |
| 978-0312606855 | Hid from Our Eyes | Spencer-Fleming, Julia | 4/7 | Minotaur |
| 978-1250231475 | A Hundred Suns | Tanabe, Karin | 4/7 | St. Martin's |
| 978-0062912756 | The Ancestor | Trussoni, Danielle | 4/7 | Morrow |
| 978-0525658412 | Redhead by the Side of the Road | Tyler, Anne | 4/7 | Knopf |
| 978-1984819888 | The Book of Lost Friends | Wingate, Lisa | 4/7 | Ballantine |
| 978-0525537205 | How Much of These Hills Is Gold | Zhang, C Pam | 4/7 | Riverhead |
| 978-1982123703 | Savage Son | Carr, Jack | 4/14 | Emily Bestler |
| 978-0778310099 | Sunrise on Half Moon Bay | Carr, Robyn | 4/14 | Mira |
| 978-1250210883 | Death of an American Beauty | Fredericks, Mariah | 4/14 | Minotaur |
| 978-0062896261 | The Annotated American Gods | Gaiman, Neil | 4/14 | Morrow |
| 978-0062966742 | Simon the Fiddler | Jiles, Paulette | 4/14 | Morrow |
| 978-1534422087 | Vagabonds | Jingfang, Hao | 4/14 | Saga |
| 978-0062869777 | No Going Back | Kamal, Sheena | 4/14 | Morrow |
| 978-0385544962 | Bubblegum | Levin, Adam | 4/14 | Doubleday |
| 978-1631496707 | Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 | Nam-Joo, Cho | 4/14 | Liveright |
| 978-0525560517 | Miss Julia Knows a Thing or Two | Ross, Ann B. | 4/14 | Viking |
| 978-0525539520 | Masked Prey | Sandford, John | 4/14 | Putnam |
| 978-0374110062 | Man of My Time | Sofer, Dalia | 4/14 | FSG |
| 978-0062951663 | The Coyotes of Carthage | Wright, Steven | 4/14 | Ecco |
| 978-0802148711 | Braised Pork | Yu, An | 4/14 | Grove |
| 978-1538761465 | Walk the Wire | Baldacci, David | 4/21 | Grand Central |
| 978-0735223103 | A Thousand Moons | Barry, Sebastian | 4/21 | Viking |
| 978-1524760380 | Shorefall | Bennett, Robert Jackson | 4/21 | Del Rey |
| 978-0525479123 | Pretty Things | Brown, Janelle | 4/21 | Random House |
| 978-0593129463 | If I Had Your Face | Cha, Frances | 4/21 | Ballantine |
| 978-0440000839 | Master Class | Dalcher, Christina | 4/21 | Berkley |
| 978-1524745202 | The Business of Lovers | Dickey, Eric Jerome | 4/21 | Dutton |
| 978-1250154224 | Little Secrets | Hillier, Jennifer | 4/21 | Minotaur |
| 978-0525429760 | The Book of Longings | Kidd, Sue Monk | 4/21 | Viking |
| 978-1982137977 | If It Bleeds | King, Stephen | 4/21 | Scribner |
| 978-0525542353 | The House of Deep Water | McFarland, Jeni | 4/21 | Putnam |
| 978-1501188589 | Kept Animals | Milliken, Kate | 4/21 | Scribner |
| 978-0062435927 | Dead Land | Paretsky, Sara | 4/21 | Morrow |
| 978-0063003989 | Girl Gone Viral | Rai, Alisha | 4/21 | Avon |
| 978-0060898793 | Passage West | Reddi, Rishi | 4/21 | Ecco |
| 978-0316422130 | How To Pronounce Knife | Thammavongsa, Souvankham | 4/21 | Little, Brown |
| 978-0735211773 | Little Family | Beah, Ishmael | 4/28 | Riverhead |
| 978-1250300058 | The Split | Bolton, Sharon | 4/28 | Minotaur |
| 978-0062909046 | The Sweeney Sisters | Dolan, Lian | 4/28 | Morrow |
| 978-0525656494 | Sea Wife | Gaige, Amity | 4/28 | Knopf |
| 978-0385545938 | Camino Winds | Grisham, John | 4/28 | Doubleday |
| 978-0062890009 | Swimming in the Dark | Jedrowski, Tomasz | 4/28 | Morrow |
| 978-1524748968 | The Talented Mr. Varg | McCall Smith, Alexander | 4/28 | Pantheon |
| 978-0778309789 | The Secrets of Love Story Bridge | Patrick, Phaedra | 4/28 | Park Row |
| 978-1525804649 | The Heirloom Garden | Shipman, Viola | 4/28 | Graydon House |
| 978-0374272616 | Take Me Apart | Sligar, Sara | 4/28 | MCD |
| 978-0399179594 | The Wedding Dress | Steel, Danielle | 4/28 | Delacorte |
| 978-0062972088 | Have You Seen Me? | White, Kate | 4/28 | Harper |
| 978-0525656784 | The Knockout Queen | Thorpe, Rufi | 4/28 | Knopf |
| 978-0525658658 | The End of October | Wright, Lawrence | 4/28 | Knopf |
NONFICTION
| Title | Author | On Sale | Imprint | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 978-1250170170 | Europe Against the Jews, 1880–1945 | Aly, Gotz | 4/7 | Metropolitan |
| 978-0062973375 | Nothing General About It | Benard, Maurice | 4/7 | Morrow |
| 978-0374142599 | The Silver Swan | Bingham, Sallie | 4/7 | FSG |
| 978-0525561415 | Betsey | Johnson, Betsey & Mark Vitulano | 4/7 | Viking |
| 978-0385543767 | Hidden Valley Road | Kolker, Robert | 4/7 | Doubleday |
| 978-0316423328 | Joy At Work | Kondo, Marie | 4/7 | Little, Brown Spark |
| 978-1631496592 | How To Make Love to a Despot | Krasner, Steve | 4/7 | Liveright |
| 978-1250174789 | The Better Half | Moalem, Sharen | 4/7 | FSG |
| 978-1644450178 | American Harvest | Mockett, Marie Mutsuki | 4/7 | Graywolf |
| 978-1250214249 | Assume Nothing | Selvaratnam, Tanya | 4/7 | Holt |
| 978-1982131326 | Navigate Your Stars | Ward, Jesmyn | 4/7 | Scribner |
| 978-1476739434 | Lincoln on the Verge | Widmer, Ted | 4/7 | S&S |
| 978-1631496141 | Afropessimism | Wilderson, Frank | 4/7 | Liveright |
| 978-0316454483 | The House of Kennedy | Patterson, James | 4/13 | Little, Brown |
| 978-0062802255 | Hell and Other Destinations | Albright, Madeleine | 4/14 | Harper |
| 978-0374238711 | Putin’s People | Belton, Catherine | 4/14 | FSG |
| 978-1250114068 | Three Tigers, One Mountain | Booth, Michael | 4/14 | St. Martin's |
| 978-0393070224 | What Is the Grass | Doty, Mark | 4/14 | Norton |
| 978-1982126803 | No Filter | Frier, Sarah | 4/14 | S&S |
| 978-1501194108 | The Year 1000 | Hansen, Valerie | 4/14 | Scribner |
| 978-1250134769 | The Address Book | Mask, Deirdre | 4/14 | St. Martin's |
| 978-0316414005 | This Is Big: How the Founder of Weight Watchers Changed the World — And Me | Meltzer, Marisa | 4/14 | Little, Brown |
| 978-0374279714 | Miss Aluminum | Moore, Susana | 4/14 | FSG |
| 978-0062947499 | Overkill | Offit, Paul | 4/14 | Harper |
| 978-0451494115 | Calder | Perl, Jed | 4/14 | Knopf |
| 978-0316310994 | Yogi | Pessah, Jon | 4/14 | Little, Brown |
| 978-0374538576 | Diary of a Drag Queen | Rasmussen, Crystal & Tom Rasmussen | 4/14 | FSG |
| 978-1250173331 | Becoming Wild | Safina, Carl | 4/14 | Holt |
| 978-0525576679 | Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls | Aron, Nina Renata | 4/21 | Crown |
| 978-1250261878 | Good Boy | Boylan, Jennifer Finney | 4/21 | Celadon |
| 978-1250214584 | Tombstone | Clavin, Tom | 4/21 | St. Martin's |
| 978-1984824769 | Decoded | el Kaliouby, Rana & Carol Colman | 4/21 | Currency |
| 978-0374150143 | Everything Is Under Control | Grant, Phyllis | 4/21 | FSG |
| 978-1335013835 | No Shadows in the Desert | Katz, Samuel | 4/21 | Hanover Square |
| 978-1982107918 | There I Am | Lindsey, Ruthie | 4/21 | Gallery |
| 978-0374287269 | Active Measures | Rid, Thomas | 4/21 | FSG |
| 978-1324003540 | In Deep | Rohde, David | 4/21 | Norton |
| 978-0399181443 | Strange Situation | Saltman, Bethany | 4/21 | Ballantine |
| 978-1328613080 | The Good Assassin | Talty, Stephan | 4/21 | HMH |
| 978-0062978455 | War for Eternity | Teitelbaum, Benjamin | 4/21 | Dey Street |
| 978-0802148209 | How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs | Thompson, Elizabeth | 4/21 | Atlantic Monthly |
| 978-1250194718 | Sigh, Gone | Tran, Phuc | 4/21 | Flatiron |
| 978-0358006091 | Home Baked | Volz, Alia | 4/21 | HMH |
| 978-1401958459 | Medical Medium Cleanse to Heal | William, Anthony | 4/21 | Hay House |
| 978-1501190780 | Bix | Chantler, Scott | 4/28 | Gallery |
| 978-1324004059 | The Inevitability of Tragedy | Gewen, Barry | 4/28 | Norton |
| 978-0062298393 | Warhol | Gopnik, Blake | 4/28 | Ecco |
| 978-1984819727 | Becoming Kim Jong Un | Pak, Jung | 4/28 | Ballantine |
| 978-0812989977 | Empires of the Sky | Rose, Alexander | 4/28 | Random House |
| 978-0399589959 | This Is All I Got | Sandler, Lauren | 4/28 | Random House |
| 978-0062910608 | The Compton Cowboys | Thompson-Hernandez, Walter | 4/28 | Morrow |
CHILDREN’S
| Title | Author | On Sale | Imprint | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 978-1616959890 | Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know | Ahmed, Samira | 4/7 | Soho Teen |
| 978-1335146762 | We Didn't Ask for This | Alsaid, Adi | 4/7 | Inkyard Press |
| 978-1250222794 | Little Universes | Demetrios, Heather | 4/7 | Holt |
| 978-1250195692 | Ruthless Gods | Duncan, Emily | 4/7 | Wednesday Books |
| 978-0316490573 | They Went Left | Hesse, Monica | 4/7 | Little, Brown |
| 978-0593118498 | The Lucky Ones | Lawson, Liz | 4/7 | Delacorte |
| 978-1368013826 | So This Is Love | Lim, Elizabeth | 4/7 | Disney-Hyperion |
| 978-0593114919 | The Best Laid Plans | Lund, Cameron | 4/7 | Razorbill |
| 978-0316449298 | Sword in the Stars | McCarthy, Cori & Amy Rose Capetta | 4/7 | Jimmy Patterson |
| 978-1338589306 | The Loop | Oliver, Benjamin & Ben Oliver | 4/7 | Chicken House |
| 978-1250312235 | Jack Kerouac Is Dead to Me | Polisner, Gae | 4/7 | Wednesday Books |
| 978-0316423823 | This Is My Brain in Love | Gregorio, I W | 4/14 | Little, Brown |
| 978-1419739828 | Raybearer | Ifueko, Jordan | 4/14 | Amulet Books |
| 978-1536206050 | This Boy | Myracle, Lauren | 4/14 | Walker Books |
| 978-1368041867 | Elysium Girls | Pentecost, Kate | 4/14 | Disney-Hyperion |
| 978-0525516286 | Verona Comics | Dugan, Jennifer | 4/21 | Putnam |
| 978-1250229557 | The Silence of Bones | Hur, June | 4/21 | Feiwel & Friends |
| 978-1250209139 | Late to the Party | Quindlen, Kelly | 4/21 | Roaring Brook Press |
| 978-1250238795 | A Breath Too Late | Callen, Rocky | 4/28 | Holt |
| 978-1368023801 | Incendiary | Cordova, Zoraida | 4/28 | Disney-Hyperion |
| 978-0374312718 | All Boys Aren't Blue | Johnson, George | 4/28 | FSG |
| 978-0374307097 | Seven Endless Forests | Tucholke, April Genevieve | 4/28 | FSG |