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A new month means new books, and if you’re an Aardvark Book Club subscriber, the anticipation for April 2025’s picks is already building! Aardvark is known for curating fresh, buzzworthy reads across a variety of genres, from gripping thrillers to thought-provoking literary fiction. So, what could be in next month’s box?
Based on recent selections, upcoming releases, and the types of books Aardvark tends to feature, I’ve put together my best predictions for April’s lineup. Whether you’re hoping for a can’t-put-down mystery, a powerful debut, or a unique genre-bending novel, let’s dive into the books that might be heading your way!
There’s a good mix of genres on my Aardvark Book Club April 2025 predictions list. If you want to know about even more books releasing in April 2025, check out my complete list here.
Related: April 2025 New Book Releases
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As usual, these are just my opinions and my Aardvark Book Club predictions. It is fine if you disagree or think the Aardvark Book Club April 2025 predictions are terrible-we all have different reading tastes. Please remember to be kind in comments or messages because we are all readers with different tastes!
Mystery/Thriller Aardvark Book Club April 2025 Predictions
Fair Play by Louise Hegarty
Release Date: April 8, 2025
For fans of Anthony Horowitz and Lucy Foley, a wonderfully original, genre-breaking literary debut from Ireland that’s an homage to the brilliant detective novels of the early twentieth century, a twisty modern murder mystery, and a searing exploration of grief and loss.
Make Sure You Die Screaming by Zee Carlstrom
Release Date: April 8, 2025
An electrifying debut about a nonbinary corporate burnout embarking on a road trip from Chicago to Arkansas to find their conspiracy-theorist father, who has gone missing―for fans of Detransition Baby and Chain-Gang All-Stars.
What Remains of Teague House by Stacy Johns
Release Date: April 8, 2025
For readers of Megan Collins with the taut character study of Angie Kim comes a searing mystery that follows three siblings as they reckon with the darkness hidden within their family after multiple graves are discovered behind their childhood home.
How to Seal Your Own Fate by Kristen Perrin
Release Date: April 29, 2025
Repeat Author, Second Book in a series
Kristen Perrin is back with the second novel in her Castle Knoll series. Annie Adams is caught in a new web of murder that spans decades, returning us to the idyllic English village that holds layers of secrets.
Romance Aardvark Book Club April 2025 Predictions
Any Trope But You by Victoria Lavine
Release Date: April 1, 2025
A bestselling romance author flees to Alaska to reinvent herself and write her first murder mystery, but the rugged resort proprietor soon has her fearing she’s living in a rom-com plot instead in this earnestly spectacular debut by a stunning new voice.
My Best Friend’s Honeymoon by Meryl Wilsner
Release Date: April 29, 2025
Meryl Wilsner’s spicy romance, their first with a nonbinary lead, where two lifelong best friends go on a nonrefundable honeymoon together and discover sometimes to find a happily ever after, you just have to ask.
Horror Aardvark Book Club April 2025 Predictions
Senseless by Ronald Malfi
Release Date: April 15, 2025
A page-turning, supernaturally-tinged LA puzzle-box thriller – Zodiac with teeth, from the Bram Stoker Award-nominated and bestselling author of Come with Me. Perfect for fans of Riley Sager and Lauren Beukes.
Eat the Ones Your Love by Sarah Maria Griffin
Release Date: April 22, 2025
After losing her job and her fiancé and moving back from the city to live with her parents, Shell Pine needs some help. Shell gets a job at a florist shop, and the flowers she works with there are just the thing she needs to cheer up. Or maybe it’s Neve, the beautiful shop manager, who is making her days so rosy?
Neve’s secrets are as dark and dangerous as they come. In the back room of the flower shop, a young sentient orchid actually runs the show, and he is hungry . . . and he has a plan for them all.
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
Release Date: April 29, 2025
In this explosive horror novel, a woman is haunted by inner trauma, hungry ghosts, and a serial killer as she confronts the brutal violence experienced by East Asians during the pandemic.
Polybius by Collin Armstrong
Release Date: April 29, 2025
Stranger Things meets The Walking Dead in this chilling novel based on the terrifying urban legend about a video game created by the government for psychological warfare.
The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig
Release Date: April 29, 2025
A group of friends investigates the mystery of a strange staircase in the woods in this mesmerizing horror novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Accidents.
Contemporary Fiction Aardvark Book Club April 2025 Prediction
The Seven O’Clock Club by Amelia Ireland
Release Date: April 15, 2025
Debut Author
Four strangers are brought together to participate in an experimental treatment designed to heal broken hearts in this surprising and heartfelt debut novel from author Amelia Ireland.
Literary Fiction Aardvark Book Club April 2025 Predictions
When the Harvest Comes by Denne Michele Norris
Release Date: April 15, 2025
Debut Author
In this heart-wrenching debut novel, a young Black gay man, estranged from his father, must confront his painful past—and his deepest desires around gender, love, and sex.
Audition by Katie Kitamura
Release Date: April 8, 2025
One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love.
Sci-Fi Aardvark Book Club April 2025 Predictions
Cold Eternity by S. A. Barnes
Release Date: April 8, 2025
Repeat Author
Cold Eternity is the newest action-packed space horror from S.A. Barnes perfect for fans of Severance, where desperation for eternal life leads to a fate worse than death…
Dissolution by Nicholas Binge
Release Date: March 25, 2025
Repeat Author, Possible April selection
A woman dives into her husband’s memories to uncover a decades-old feud threatening reality itself in this staggering technothriller from the bestselling author of Ascension.
When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi
Release Date: March 25, 2025
Repeat AUthor, Possible April selection
The moon has turned into cheese.
Now humanity has to deal with it.
It’s a wild moonage daydream. Ride this rocket.
Eleven Percent by Maren Uthaug
Release Date: April 22, 2025
An inverse The Handmaid’s Tale that asks: What if women took over the world?
Awakened by A. E. Osworth
Release Date: April 29, 2025
A coven of trans witches battles an evil AI in the magical coming-of-middle-age romp about love, loss, drag shows, and late capitalism.
Fantasy Aardvark Book Club April 2025 Prediction
A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett
Release Date: April 1, 2025
Repeat Author
The eccentric detective Ana Dolabra matches wits with a seemingly omniscient adversary in this brilliant fantasy-mystery from the author of The Tainted Cup.
Do you agree with my predictions? What are some of your April 2025 Aardvark Book Club predictions or hopefuls? Let me know in the comments!
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