Book of the Month April 2025 Selections

The Book of the Month April 2025 selections are here! Decide which of these books you want to add to your subscription box.

Book of the Month is my favorite subscription box. Every month, I choose between their curated book selections, and voila! A blue box arrives at my door carrying one (or two or three) new books for me to read.

Each month, Book of the Month chooses between five to seven hardcover books you can choose from. Rather listen to an audiobook? Book of the Month has those, too! Now you can opt for audiobooks as your monthly pick or add them on at any time during the month.

Every month, I will highlight the books chosen and let you know my thoughts on the chosen titles. 

Even if you don’t have a Book of the Month subscription (yet), I think you’ll find value in looking at a curated list of new releases.

Keep scrolling to see all the details about the Book of the Month April 2025 selections and to find out which one I’m adding to my subscription box.

Book of the Month is a monthly subscription book service highly popular among the book community. Trust me, once you try it, you’ll be hooked.

How it Works

Each month, a panel of judges chooses at least five books for you to choose from. The Book of the Month selections cover different genres and are always special edition hardcovers. Often, the chosen books haven’t been published yet, so you get to be one of the first people to read them.

At the beginning of the month, you choose one book to add to your box and shortly thereafter the little blue box arrives at your door. If you aren’t loving any of the selected books, you just skip that month and your credits will just roll over to the next month. Or, after your third box, you can choose from five member favorite books for your month’s selection instead.

On the other hand, if you want more than one book, once you’ve chosen your initial book, you can add-on up to four additional books at a discounted rate. These add-ons can be from the current month’s selection, be favorites from previous months, or be new releases specially included in the add-on catalog.

Book of the Month runs two different pricing plans. On the monthly plan, you get one credit a month for $17. If you are willing to pay upfront, the yearly plan gives you 12 credits for $168, which averages out to $14 a book. For a hardcover new release, both prices are a steal.

Even better, when you include additional books into your box, they are only $10 each! 

Book of the Month also offers 3, 6, and 9-month gift cards if you are considering purchasing it as a gift.

For new subscribers, Book of the Month’s homepage almost always has a special offer to get your first book for $10. But I can do you one better. If you are interested in joining, you can use this Book of the Month Club referral link to get your first book for $5 right now!

But wait, there’s more! Once you’ve chosen your 12th book from Book of the Month, you join the BFF club and get a special Book of the Month tote.

After that, you’ll get a free add-on every year for your birthday month. Plus, when the end of the year rolls around, you get one of the top 5 Book of the Month selections from the year for free. (Note: They didn’t do the Book of the Year in 2023 so I’m not sure if they are still doing this bonus, though it is listed as a benefit on the website.) That’s an additional two books each year for no additional cost.

What are you waiting for? Join Book of the Month and get your first book at a discounted price!

Unhappy with her life in New York, Ruth returns to a small lake town in Guatemala where she had found joy a decade earlier. Settling in Panajachel, Ruth befriends two women. Emilie is dependable, calm and practical while Carmen is full of intoxicating drama. As Ruth becomes more and more drawn into Carmen’s friendship, she pushes away Emilie’s steadfastness. Yet Ruth will soon come to learn the difference between being a visitor and truly belonging.

Publication Date: 1 July 2025
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Effervescent and ambitious Zoe and shy musical prodigy Cassie could not be more different even though they are sisters. Catapulted to fame as a pop duo sensation, the sisters spent a whirlwind year in the early 2000s until they abruptly broke up. Now twenty years later, Zoe’s teenage daughter Cherry also wants to be a star and is determined to learn why the band broke up. Now Zoe, Cassie and Cherry must face the consequences of the decisions they made and the decisions the music industry made for them.

Publication Date: 8 April 2025
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In a moment of teenage madness, Providence Byrd put her car in reverse and ran over her mother, almost killing her and becoming a convicted felon in the aftermath. When her mother disappears, Providence finally returns to her estranged family, sure her abusive father is responsible. As Providence draws closer to her younger sisters, she is caught between the desire for revenge and the desire to end the cycle of violence that has plagued her family for generations.

Publication Date: 22 April 2025
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With no direction and no social life, Bennet Taylor’s is not thriving as a single twentysomething in New York City, still grieving her first love. Hours after standing him up for a date, Bennet runs into Henry. In a drunken confession, Bennet admits she isn’t ready to date and is struggling to find passion about anything. Henry takes it as a challenge and every Saturday the two meet, as friends, to try to bring passion back into Bennet’s life. But old secrets will taste Bennet’s will to finally move on with her life.

Publication Date: 8 April 2025
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Working at the Wadia Hospital in Bombay, Sona is enraptured by her newest patient – Mira Novak, a world-renowned painter. Over her six day recovery from a miscarriage, Mira enchants Sona with tales of her travels and the many lovers she’s had across the world. Upon her release, Mira invites Sona to a lavish society event only for Mira to die mysteriously the next day. When the police suspect Sona, Sona must uncover Mira’s history to clear her name by fulfilling Mira’s dying wish to deliver paintings to Mira’s first love, first art dealer, and first painting tutor.

Publication Date: 15 April 2025
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Recently, Book of the Month has started including audiobooks as another option for your monthly picks. Instead of choosing a hardcover copy, you can choose one of these audiobooks as your main selection this month.

April’s Audiobooks:

Sometimes, it happens. If none of the April 2025 Book of the Month selections are calling your name, don’t despair. After your third box, you now have another option!

Previously, if you didn’t love the five choices, you would have to skip the whole month. Now if you have BFF status, you can choose a member fave hardcover for your monthly box and then add-on up to four more books if you choose.

Member Faves:

Book of the Month also includes a few extra releases on top of their monthly selections. Once you have picked your main selection, you can choose to add-on these new books (or any past release) to your box. 

April’s New Books:

I’ve been impressed with the Book of the Month selections so far this year and April was no different. I really could have gone with several different books and I think I would have been happy.

But since I don’t have time to read everything, I decided to pick Jennifer Weiner’s newest read. I follow the publisher volumes for upcoming releases and William Morrow is betting big numbers on this novel which has me curious. Fingers crossed that means it’s good.

Speaking of publishers, Simon & Schuster has been emailing me for months offering me a review copy of The Bright Years by Sarah Damoff. I get multiple book offers almost every day, so I let this one pass me bye. But when I saw it as part of the Book of the Month catalog, I decided I really did want to try it. I’m always in the mood for a gripping family drama.

Which of the Book of the Month April 2025 Selections Are You Going to Pick?

What books can you not wait to get your hands on this month? Or are you skipping this month’s selections? As always, let me know in the comments!

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