{"id":2280,"date":"2025-03-16T01:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T01:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2025-03-16T01:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T01:21:16","slug":"5-sensational-new-books-for-april-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=2280","title":{"rendered":"5 Sensational New Books for April 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coming in April we have a fantastic short story collection by Lydia Millett and the latest novel by the fabulous Sayaka Murata<\/a>. Enjoy 5 Sensational New Books for April 2025.<\/p>\n

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5 Sensational New Books for April 2025<\/h2>\n

Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata<\/h2>\n
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In our near-future world, children are solely conceived by artificial insemination. Even sex between married couples is viewed as taboo.<\/p>\n

Amane\u2019s family is irregular. Her parents copulated to create her and hope that she too will find love and have a child with the person she marries. But Amane falls in line with society\u2019s way of thinking and wants a regular \u2018clean\u2019 marriage. Then she hears of a place that is the subject of a social experiment. Everyone in Paradise-Eden will act as one big family. Could this be the perfect third way?<\/p>\n\n

The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig<\/h2>\n
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Five high school friends, bonded by an oath to protect each other no matter what.<\/p>\n

On a camping trip in the middle of the forest, they find something extraordinary: a mysterious staircase to nowhere<\/p>\n

One friend walks up \u2013 but never comes back down.<\/p>\n

Now twenty years later, the staircase has reappeared, and the friends return to find the lost boy \u2013 and what lies beyond the staircase in the woods\u2026<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t Sleep with the Dead by Nghi Vo<\/h2>\n
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Nick Carraway\u2015paper soldier and novelist\u2015has found a life and a living watching the mad magical spectacle of New York high society in the late thirties. He\u2019s good at watching, and he\u2019s even better at pretending: pretending to be straight, pretending to be human, pretending he\u2019s forgotten the events of that summer in 1922.<\/p>\n

On the eve of the second World War, however, Nick learns that someone\u2019s been watching him pretend and that memory goes both ways. When he sees a familiar face one very dark night, it quickly becomes clear that dead or not, damned or not, Jay Gatsby isn\u2019t done with him.<\/p>\n

In all paper there is memory, and Nick\u2019s ghost has come home.<\/p>\n

Atavists: Stories by Lydia Millet<\/h2>\n
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Atavists follows a group of families, couples and loners in their collisions, confessions and conflicts in a post-pandemic America of artificially lush lawns, beauty salons, tech-bro mansions, assisted-living facilities, big-box stores, gastropubs, college campuses and medieval role-playing festivals.<\/p>\n

The various \u201c-ists\u201d who people these linked stories\u2014from futurists to insurrectionists to cosmetologists\u2014include a professor who\u2019s morbidly fixated on an old friend\u2019s Instagram account; a woman convinced that her bright young son-in-law is watching geriatric porn; a bodybuilder who lives an incel\u2019s fantasy life; a couple who surveil the neighbours after finding obscene notes in their mailbox; a pretentious academic accused of plagiarism; and a suburban ex-marathoner father obsessed with hosting refugees in a tiny house in his garden<\/p>\n

Audition by Katie Kitamura<\/h2>\n
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One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilising novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love<\/p>\n

Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She\u2019s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He\u2019s attractive, troubling, young \u2013 young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day \u2013 partner, parent, creator, muse \u2013 and the truths every performance masks, especially from those who think they know us most intimately.<\/p>\n

If you enjoyed 5 Sensational New Books for April 2025, check out our Book of the Month for March 2025, Gabriel\u2019s Moon by William Boyd. <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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