Book of the Month April 2025 picks are in—Slay the Page loves to highlight amazing new fiction, thrillers, and fresh voices ready to totally shake up your spring reading list. Which one will you reach for first this month?
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Let’s Talk! Book of the Month (BOTM) April 2025 Picks
Slay the Page loves Book of the Month (BOTM)! Each month, readers get to choose a favorite (or several) from their curated list of brand-new book releases. And then? Selections are delivered right to your front door – in Book of the Month’s legendary bright blue box.
Every month, Book of the Month curates a list of five to seven must-read, brand new books (gorgeous hardcovers), featuring exciting debuts and bestselling authors that members can pick from. Audiobook lover? You’ll be thrilled that Book of the Month now offers them too! As a new option, audiobooks can now be selected instead of hardcovers (or added on at any time after). I couldn’t be happier!
Monthly, I’ll share the Book of the Month picks and thoughts on each. I hope it will help you decide what books to read and add to your monthly subscription box.
Not a Book of the Month member? I’m so happy to introduce you to these highly anticipated titles – and the best book subscription service ever. I hope you’ll enjoy reading about these brand new releases (and maybe even be inspired to subscribe).
Read on to discover the Book of the Month April 2025 picks and which ones I can’t wait to get on my bookshelf. Get ready to read your heart out!
What is Book of the Month (BOTM)?
Book of the Month is a book lover’s dream. As the most popular subscription service in the book world (America’s #1 monthly book plan; now available in Canada too), it has the best new release books for readers – period.
How Does BOTM Work? A Quick Guide for April 2025
They pick a few, then we pick our fav! It couldn’t be easier . . . or more fun.
“Choose from our curated selection of the best new reads every month and get them delivered.” (Book of the Month, 2023)
Book of the Month has been curating the best in new books for decades (five or more monthly selections). That means, we get to “choose from stories vetted by cool people with great taste,” (Book of the Month, 2023).
Each month, readers pick a book from the list to add to their subscription box. And then, just like magic, it’s delivered right to your door – in its famous, beautiful blue box.
- Step 1. We feature a few wow-worthy reads.
- Step 2. You decide if you want one (or more).
- Step 3. Then you read, review, and repeat (Book of the Month, 2023).
All it takes are three easy steps. First, pick a book from the list. Book of the Month unfailingly focuses on exciting new releases, perspectives, genres, and authors in special edition hardcover. Second, get your book. It’s always the best day when that iconic blue box arrives at the door! Third, skip a month at any time. Are you behind on your reading? Nothing catching your eye? Just roll your credits over, no problem.
Even better, Book of the Month picks are often early releases that haven’t been published yet. What does that mean? You get early access to read them before they’re even available in stores (like an advanced copy). How cool is that?
And don’t forget the add-ons! Want more than one? After your first book, you can add up to four extra titles at a significantly discounted price (current picks, past favourites, or add-on catalog new releases). And after your third box, it gets even better. You can pick from five reader’s favorite books for your choice instead.
How Much Does BOTM Cost?
Book of the Month costs $12.50-17.99 USD (approx. $24.20-26.99 CAD) per month depending on your membership plan (i.e., definitely cheaper than buying hardcover new releases at the bookstore). You’ll even get your first book at a major discount! And if you buy a yearly plan, you’ll save even more per book (add-on books are always discounted too).
New subscriber? You’ll likely find great special offers on Book of the Month’s website to sign up. Book lover in your life? Book of the Month has gift card subscriptions too. You can easily cancel your membership if you wish – but I don’t think you’ll want to!
Get all the details on the subscription and membership by visiting the official Book of the Month website.
Book of the Month Benefits & Perks
It’s about to get even better! Book of the Month loves rewarding its members. Its amazing loyalty program, Relationship Status, gives long-term members incredible benefits.
After three boxes, you’ll get “friend” benefits (i.e., ship up to five books each month and cast your vote for Book of the Year). After 12 boxes, you’ll also get “BFF” benefits. These include special free gifts – a tote bag, birthday book on your special day, your choice of a Book of the Year finalist, plus priority service. Sign me up!
Are you ready to see which Book of the Month April 2025 picks made the cut? Keep reading for the full list of books and my top recommendations.
Book of the Month Main Picks – April 2025
Here are the Book of the Month April 2025 picks to add to your reading list. Drum roll please . . . get ready to read your heart out!
The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits by Jennifer Weiner
The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits
Jennifer Weiner
BOTM’s Quick Take: The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits by Jennifer Weiner
Life-shattering fame, forbidden love, and a contentious relationship between pop star sisters: what could go wrong (Book of the Month, 2025)?
BOTM’s Good to Know: The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits by Jennifer Weiner
Synopsis of The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits by Jennifer Weiner
Cassie and Zoe Grossberg were thrust into the spotlight as The Griffin Sisters, a pop duo that defined the aughts. Together, they skyrocketed to the top, gracing MTV, SNL, and the cover of Rolling Stone. Cassie, a musical genius who never felt at ease in her own skin, preferred to stay in the shadows. Zoe, full of confidence and craving fame, lived for the stage. But fame has a price, and after one turbulent year, the band abruptly broke up.
Now, two decades later, the sisters couldn’t be further apart. Zoe is a suburban mom warning her daughter Cherry to avoid the spotlight, while Cassie has disappeared from public life entirely. But when Cherry begins unearthing the truth behind their breathtaking rise and infamous breakup, long-buried secrets surface, forcing all three women to confront their choices, their desires, and their complicated bonds.
Book Details: The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits by Jennifer Weiner
BOTM Pick: Main & Audiobook — April 2025
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Publication Date: April 8, 2025
Get More Info: Full Book Page | Goodreads | The Storygraph
The Sun Was Electric Light by Rachel Morton
The Sun Was Electric Light
Rachel Morton
BOTM’s Quick Take: The Sun Was Electric Light by Rachel Morton
A poignant meditation on friendship, found family, and how to move through the world when you’ve lost your way.(Book of the Month, 2025).
BOTM’s Good to Know: The Sun Was Electric Light by Rachel Morton
Reader Note: This book may explore emotional, sensitive, or potentially triggering topics. If you’d like more detailed content information before reading, see our content notes for The Sun is Electric Light by Rachel Morton.
The Sun is Electric Light by Rachel Morton is not yet published. It is currently only available at Book of the Month. Expected publication is July 1, 2025.
Synopsis of The Sun Was Electric Light by Rachel Morton
Disillusioned with her life in New York, Ruth returns to a lake town in Guatemala where she had been happy a decade earlier. There, in Panajachel, she meets two very different women: the calm and practical Emilie, and the turbulent and intoxicating Carmen. Deciding to stay and build a life at the lake, Ruth finds work first as a nanny to a wealthy local family, then as an English teacher at a village school. Meanwhile, she becomes increasingly infatuated by her friendship with Carmen, pushing away the stability of her connection with Emilie. As Carmen’s fragile relationship with the world splinters, the difference between being a visitor and truly belonging becomes clear, and Ruth is forced to act.
Book Details: The Sun Was Electric Light by Rachel Morton
ONLY AT BOOK OF THE MONTH
DEBUT
BOTM Pick: Main — April 2025
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publication Date: April 1, 2025 (BOTM)/July 1, 2025
Get More Info: Full Book Page | Goodreads | The Storygraph
Passion Project by London Sperry
Passion Project
London Sperry
BOTM’s Quick Take: Passion Project by London Sperry
An adventurous romance about finding love when you least expect it, set against the backdrop of bustling Manhattan (Book of the Month, 2025).
BOTM’s Good to Know: Passion Project by London Sperry
Synopsis of Passion Project by London Sperry
If your twenties are supposed to be the best years of your life, Bennet Taylor is failing miserably…with a big emphasis on the miserable. Where’s that zest she keeps hearing about? She’s a temp worker in New York City with no direction, no future, and no social life. And at the painful center of this listlessness is grief over the death of her first love.
When Bennet runs into Henry Adams just hours after standing him up for a first date, she makes an alcohol-fueled confession: She’s not ready to date. In fact, it’s been years since she felt passion for something. Not even pottery, or organized sports—not anything. Rather than leaving her to ruminate, Henry jumps at the opportunity for adventure: Bennet needs to find a passion for life, and Henry will help her find it. Every Saturday, they’ll try something new in New York City. As friends, of course.
As their “passion project” continues, the pair tackle everything from carpentry to tattooing to rappelling off skyscrapers, and Bennet feels her guarded exterior ebbing away. But as secrets surface, Bennet has to decide what she wants, and if she’s truly ready to move on.
Book Details: Passion Project by London Sperry
DEBUT
BOTM Pick: Main — April 2025
Genre: Romance
Publication Date: April 8, 2025
Get More Info: Full Book Page | Goodreads | The Storygraph
Every Sweet Thing is Bitter by Samantha Crewson
Every Sweet Thing is Bitter
Samantha Crewson
BOTM’s Quick Take: Every Sweet Thing is Bitter by Samantha Crewson
Thirteen years ago, she almost killed her mother. Now, she’s trying to save her—but is it already too late (Book of the Month, 2025)?
BOTM’s Good to Know: Every Sweet Thing is Bitter by Samantha Crewson
Reader Note: This book may explore emotional, sensitive, or potentially triggering topics. If you’d like more detailed content information before reading, see our content notes for Every Sweet Thing is Bitter by Samantha Crewson.
Synopsis of Every Sweet Thing is Bitter by Samantha Crewson
Thirteen years ago, Providence Byrd threw the family car in reverse and ran over her mother. Even though her mother survived, that single instant of teenage madness made Providence a felon and irrevocably altered her life. When her mother disappears years later under suspicious circumstances, Providence tells herself that returning home is her chance to find closure after a prolonged estrangement from her family. Never mind that this is only half of the truth: she’s also returning to finally confront her abusive father, Tom Byrd. Nothing can stamp out Providence’s certainty that he is guilty of whatever terrible thing has happened to her mother.
As the search unfolds, Providence is haunted by the wounds of her past, none of which cut as deep as the distance between her and her younger sisters. Harmony and Grace are both uniquely scarred by her attempted matricide, and both have their own idea of what reconciliations might look like—if reconciling is even possible. Harmony urges Providence to make their father pay for his sins; Grace begs her to end the cycle of violence that has haunted their family for generations. As her thirst for vengeance collides with her desire to heal her relationships with her sisters, Providence must decide which she values more: revenge or redemption.
Book Details: Every Sweet Thing is Bitter by Samantha Crewson
DEBUT
EARLY RELEASE
BOTM Pick: Main — April 2025
Genre: Mystery
Publication Date: April 22, 2025
Get More Info: Full Book Page | Goodreads | The Storygraph
Six Days in Bombay by Alka Joshi
Six Days in Bombay
Alka Joshi
BOTM’s Quick Take: Six Days in Bombay by Alka Joshi
A young nurse travels the world to unravel a series of intertwining mysteries—and clear her name of murder (Book of the Month, 2025).
BOTM’s Good to Know: Six Days in Bombay by Alka Joshi
Reader Note: This book may explore emotional, sensitive, or potentially triggering topics. If you’d like more detailed content information before reading, see our content notes for Six Days in Bombay by Alka Joshi.
Synopsis of Six Days in Bombay by Alka Joshi
When renowned painter Mira Novak arrives at Wadia hospital in Bombay after a miscarriage, she’s expected to make a quick recovery, and her nurse, Sona, is excited to learn more about the vivacious artist who shares her half-Indian identity. Sona, yearning for a larger life, finds herself carried away by Mira’s stories of her travels and exploits and is shocked by accounts of the many lovers the painter has left scattered throughout Europe. When Mira dies quite suddenly and mysteriously, Sona falls under suspicion, and her quiet life is upended.
The key to proving Sona’s innocence may lie in a cryptic note and four paintings Mira left in her care, sending the young woman on a mission to visit the painter’s former friends and lovers across a tumultuous Europe teetering toward war. On the precipice of discovering her own identity, Sona learns that the painter’s charming facade hid a far more complicated, troubled soul.
Book Details: Six Days in Bombay by Alka Joshi
BOTM Pick: Main & Audiobook — February 2025
Genre: Historical Fiction
Publication Date: April 15, 2025
Get More Info: Full Book Page | Goodreads | The Storygraph
BOTM Audiobook Picks – April 2025
Great news! Book of the Month now offers audiobooks as part of your monthly selection options. This means you can swap out a hardcover and pick an audiobook as your featured choice for the month instead.
Here are the Book of the Month April 2025 audiobook picks . . .
The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits
Jennifer Weiner
Free: My Search for Meaning
Amanda Knox
Retreat
Krysten Ritter
Gifted & Talented
Olivie Blake
Six Days in Bombay
Alka Joshi
BOTM Member Faves – April 2025
Not sure about the Book of the Month April 2025 picks? We’ve all been there! But don’t worry, you have a new way to keep your reading game strong after your third box.
Before, if no featured selections caught your eye, you’d have to pass on the whole month (rolling your credits over). But guess what? If you’ve got “friend” or “BFF” status, you’re going to love this – now you can pick a member fave hardcover (instead of a featured selection) for your monthly box. Feeling extra-bookish? You can even add up to four more books to your order.
Here are the Book of the Month April 2025 member faves . . .
Black Cake
Charmaine Wilkerson
Shark Heart: A Love Story
Emily Habeck
This Spells Love
Kate Robb
None of This Is True
Lisa Jewell
A Song to Drown Rivers
Ann Liang
BOTM New Add-Ons – April 2025
Need more? In addition to their monthly picks, Book of the Month offers other new titles too! After selecting your main book, you can also pick these new releases – or any previous ones – as add-ons to your box.
Here are the Book of the Month April 2025 new add-ons . . .
The Bright Years
Sarah Damoff
Enchantra
Kaylie Smith
Fun for the Whole Family
Jennifer E. Smith
Retreat
Krysten Ritter
Gifted & Talented
Olivie Blake
Water Baby
Chioma Okereke
Sky Daddy
Kate Folk
My Book of the Month April 2025 Picks
What are your thoughts on the Book of the Month April 2025 selections? I’m genuinely impressed—once again! It’s been an excellent start to the year for BOTM.
Of the main picks, I’m in the mood for something light and fun, especially as spring approaches. Jennifer Weiner’s The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits, which explores the “life-shattering fame, forbidden love, and contentious relationship between pop star sisters” (Book of the Month, 2025) in the 2000s, is my top choice.
I’m also drawn to London Sperry’s Passion Project. A heartfelt romance centered around female friendships in Manhattan? Exactly the type of novel I can get lost in this season.
As for the Book of the Month April 2025 audiobooks, you know I’m obsessed with nonfiction. Amanda Knox’s Free: My Search for Meaning is my first audiobook pick. I’m also intrigued by Krysten Ritter’s Retreat—her authenticity as an actress and director makes me eager to dive into her “serpentine thriller.”
For the member faves, narrowing it down was tough, but I’d go with Emily Habeck’s Shark Heart: A Love Story, Charmaine Wilkerson’s Black Cake, and Lisa Jewell’s None of This is True—if only I had endless reading time!
And the new add-ons—these are always some of my favorites! Sarah Damoff’s The Bright Years, a “big-hearted family saga,” was an easy pick for me.
I’ve been so happy with this year’s BOTM selections so far. If I had unlimited time, these would definitely top my list for April 2025. I can’t wait to start reading and see how many of these amazing books I can get through!
What April 2025 BOTM Picks Will You Read?
Now that the Book of the Month April 2025 picks are out, which title are you most looking forward to reading? Are you leaning toward a twisty thriller, a light-hearted rom-com, or a completely different genre (like my fave, nonfiction)? Share your choice in the comments—I’m so curious to hear what caught your eye!
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More Book of the Month Picks
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