Top 5 Fiction Books To Be Released On April 2024

Reading fiction forces us to mentally go outside of our identities for a while and into new ones. There are as many benefits to reading books as there are reasons to do so. It is simultaneously reassuring and inspiring to know that the pages we turn over might reveal a lesson in the human experience that has the power to change our own lives.

The following fiction novels are scheduled for publication in April 2024:

1. The Husbands by Holly Gramazio

The Husbands is a joyful debut that explores how we manage life, love, and decision-making in a world where there are countless possibilities. The Husbands is a brilliant, colorful, and cunning examination of contemporary decision-making. Through the narrative, the author is able to examine modern dating and mating practices and attitudes from a new angle. Doubleday is scheduled to release this book on April 2, 2024. 

2. The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez

The legendary author Julia Alvarez is back with a brilliant and poignant book about storytelling that is sure to become a classic right away. The Untold Story Cemetery: Whose tales are revealed and buried here? Finally, Alma discovers in the timeless life of stories the meaning she and her characters long for. Fans of Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead and Isabel Allende's Violeta will like Alvarez's stunning new book about honesty and beauty, which serves as a reminder that our life stories are never fully resolved, not even when we die. The anticipated release date of this book by Algonquin Books is April 2, 2024.

3. Table for Two: Fictions by Amor Towles

This collection of stories, set in New York and Los Angeles, is a highly researched and skillfully rendered work from the popular author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility. Table for Two is a brilliant addition to Towles's library of elegant and captivating historical fiction, written with his trademark wit, humor, and refinement. This book is scheduled to be published by Viking on April 2, 2024.

4. 888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers by Abraham Chang

Abraham Chang's book is incredibly vivid and jam-packed with popular culture. This is a very sweet and humorous look at love, identity, and navigating a world that is both growing larger and smaller. Abraham Chang's stunning debut serves as a love letter to Western pop culture, Eastern customs, and being a first-generation New Yorker. It also serves as a reminder that luck isn't everything when it comes to matters of the heart. Flatiron Books is scheduled to release this book on April 30, 2024.

5. Real Americans by Rachel Khong

From the bestselling author of Vitamin: Goodbye: How far would you go to control your own fate? Three generations of a single family are the focus of this gripping story on American identity that begs the question, "What makes us who we are?" How much of our futures are predetermined? Rachel Khong tells a profound narrative of race and visibility, class and ambition, family and inheritance—a story of forgiveness, trust, and ultimately coming home—in evocative, emotional writing. Real Americans, an exuberant and explosive social fiction of the highest caliber, poses the question, "Are we made or are we destined, and if so, who gets to make us?" Can we overcome our genetic heritage? Knopf is scheduled to release this book on April 30, 2024.