The Biggest Book Club’s April Selections, From Pioneering Tradwife to a Pulitzer Prize Winner

About the book club: Tiffany and Alexandra, longtime friends, founded the Subtle Asian Book Club in 2020 to uplift Asian voices and storytellers. You can read along with the monthly book pick, join in on discussions on social media, and watch videos of their live author interviews.

About the book: If you’re in the mood for a short story collection all narrated from the perspectives of animals, this is your book club this month!

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About the book club: Dawnshaeé Reid is a self-proclaimed eclectic blogger who created this book club, prioritizing Black authors. It aims to highlight a wide range of genres. There’s an in-person, once-a-month meeting option if you’re in Louisville, KY, and a virtual option that meets on the last Tuesday of every month.

What Eclectix The Book Club said about the book: “Some of my favorite readers have giving this book so much praise, and I think it’s time for the book club to see what it’s about. Especially with comp titles like Homegoing and The Love Songs of WEB DuBois, often coming up in our conversations this opportunity to read an epic story of Black woman resilience and family tradition will fit right in.”

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The host of the very popular BooksandLala YouTube channel also hosts a monthly book club focused on mystery, thriller, and horror novels. Co-hosts join in for a live show on her YouTube channel at the start of the following month to discuss the book.

What Kayla said about the book: “…I’ve heard this referred to as ‘campy’ and ‘ridiculous’, like the words that I always love to pick up in a thriller…”

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About the book club: Author Roxane Gay (Bad Feminist, Ayiti, The Banks) selects a book every month with the goal of uplifting “authentic and necessary perspectives from writers who fearlessly share their stories.” Here are the Book Club FAQs. And she’s partnered with Allstora for book delivery of selections.

What Roxane said about the book: “Black. Single. Mother. is a bracing, vulnerable, deeply moving read, a book that manages to master both the first-person confessional and temper it with elements of ethnography, creating a book that is both a memoir and a dynamic map of a community of Black women who are often maligned, misunderstood, and profoundly underestimated. I’m looking forward to discussing it with you throughout the month of April. We will be in conversation with Jamilah on April 29 at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET. You can register here.”

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About the book club: British singer/songwriter Dua Lipa is clearly a book lover and created “a space to enjoy all things literary, including Dua’s Monthly Reads and exclusive Q&As between her and the authors…”

What Dua Lipa said about the book: “My Monthly Read for April is Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth. What I love most about Jerusalem, and why I’ve chosen it as our first play, is how alive it is on the page as well as the stage… It’s funny, tragic, fantastically alive, and the best reminder that reading plays is not only for school.”

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About the book club: The Stacks is a podcast that chats all about books, and there’s a monthly book club. The book chosen for the month is discussed on the podcast in the last week of the month with a selected special guest.

What The Stacks Book Club said about the book: “The Stacks Book Club pick for April is Room Swept Home by Remica Bingham-Risher. We’ll be discussing the book with Mahogany L. Browne on Wednesday, April 29.”

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About the book club: Mocha Girls Read is a monthly book club of Black women who love to read. They currently have chapters in 14 cities across the United States. Anyone can join an Instagram Live every first Saturday of the month at 5 p.m. PT to hear Alysia, the founder of Mocha Girls Read, discuss the current book club selection.

What Mocha Girls Read said about the book: “Our 2026 global theme, AROUND THE WORLD, continues as we journey into a Middle Eastern-inspired world filled with mystery, storytelling, and unexpected love. This April, we are diving into our newest April Monthly Book Selection: The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh.”

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About the book club: Jenna Bush Hager—current co-host of Today with Hoda & Jenna—independently chooses a book each month that she personally loves. (“Jenna was not paid to mention these items and is unaffiliated with the authors and publishers.“)

What Jenna said about the book: “The April 2026 Read with Jenna selection is Upward Bound by Woody Brown! Brown, who is autistic and non-speaking, wrote his debut novel about Upward Bound, a fictional adult day care in Southern California for individuals with disabilities.

Upward Bound is available now at your local indie bookstore or wherever you get your books. Grab your copy today and read along with us! 💜”

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About the book club: Born from TikTok, Sapph-Lit is a safe space book club for sapphic women and nonbinary readers to come together and chat books and life as well as offer each other support. One book a month is selected, alternating between fiction and nonfiction.

What Sapph-Lit said about the book: “A queer, political, and feminist poetry collection guided by self-reflection that explores the expansiveness of the human experience.”

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About the book club: Lillianne Leight and Amanda Spivack created this book club, which focuses on Jewish books and characters “with varying relationships to Judaism” that welcomes all readers—Jewish and non.

What Matzah Book Soup said about the book: “Happy April and Chag Sameach! It’s the first of the month which means it’s time to share this month’s pick (and just in time for Passover)!

We’re so excited to announce that this month we’re reading One and Again by @rebecca_serle . We’ll be chatting with Rebecca on April 30 at 8 pm est!”

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About the book club: Book influencer Jack Edwards has started a book club with the fable app: “Inklings will celebrate compelling and captivating storytelling from around the world, fostering a community of book lovers. That’s YOU!!”

About the book: For the first time, Jack has picked a book he hasn’t yet read to read along with the club. If you’re looking for a book about community set in East London, this is your book club this month!

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About the book club: With the 2026 resolution to “scroll less, read more,” Katie Couric decided to start a book club with a one-book-per-month format that ends in conversation with the author.

What Katie Couric said about the pick: “Everyone has heard of this book, and if you’re like me, you’ve been meaning to read. I bought James a few months ago because I heard such incredible things, and then I learned that the paperback is actually coming out later this month (on the 21st), so I figured it was a sign that this was meant to be.

For those of you who aren’t familiar, James is a reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, told from Jim’s point of view. It won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer, so needless to say, it’s made an impact. I am so excited to read it with you all.

Join Percival and me over on Substack Live on April 28th at 5 p.m. ET to dive into every element of his masterpiece.”

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About the book club: Every month, Reese Witherspoon picks a book for Reese’s Book Club that centers on a woman in its story.

What Reese said about the book: “Into The Blue by Emma Brodie is a story that really stayed with me—about love, timing, and what happens when the past finds its way back into your life. I was so drawn to the way it explores fate versus choice.”

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About the book club: Read along with Good Morning America Book Club, which aims to “showcase book picks from a wide range of compelling authors.”

What GMA said about the book: “Wake up, babe — April’s #GMABookClub pick just dropped…

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke follows a social media #tradwife influencer who wakes up where algorithms can’t find her: 1805.

No Wi‑Fi. Just pioneering. 🕰️”

GMA’s March YA selection: “Ready to join the fight? ️ Our April #GMABookClub YA pick certainly is.

#Legendborn by @TracyDeonn follows 16-year-old Bree Matthews as she’s drawn into a dangerous secret world where legends are born, broken and rebuilt. But, after devastating loss, can Bree rise again?”

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