3 Books Coming Out in April 2022 That I Can’t Wait to Read!

Why hello! It’s been a while since I last stopped by as I’ve been focusing on content elsewhere and life’s been kinda chaotic but I’m here today to share the 3 books coming out this month that I’m most excited about. There’s an interesting mix this month. Two of the three titles below are non-fiction which is something I’ve been gravitating towards in 2022. (To date, I’ve read 12 non-fiction books this year which is kind of unheard of for me!) And for my fiction pick, I’ve included an ace m/f romance that I’m VERY excited about! So without any further ado, here are my top book releases for April!

April 2022 Book Releases:
Fiction

The Romantic Agenda
by Claire Kann

Thirty, flirty, and asexual Joy is secretly in love with her best friend Malcolm, but she’s never been brave enough to say so. When he unexpectedly announces that he s met the love of his life – and no, it’s not Joy – she’s heartbroken. Malcolm invites her on a weekend getaway, and Joy decides it’s her last chance to show him exactly what he’s overlooking. But maybe Joy is the one missing something…. or someone… and his name is Fox. Fox sees a kindred spirit in Joy – and decides to help her. He proposes they pretend to fall for each other on the weekend trip to make Malcolm jealous. But spending time with Fox shows Joy what it’s like to not be the third wheel, and there’s no mistaking the way he makes her feel. Could Fox be the romantic partner she’s always deserved?

PUBLICATION DATE: 14/04/2022

April 2022 Book Releases:
Non-Fiction

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
by Stephanie Foo

Every cell in my body is filled with the code of generations of trauma, of death, of birth, of migration, of history that I cannot understand. . . . I want to have words for what my bones know.

By the age of thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: she had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. After years of questioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD – a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years.

Both of Foo’s parents abandoned her when she was a teenager, after years of physical and verbal abuse and neglect. She thought she’d moved on, but her new diagnosis illuminated the way her past continued to threaten her health, relationships, and career. She found limited resources to help her, so Foo set out to heal herself, and to map her experiences onto the scarce literature about C-PTSD.

In this deeply personal and thoroughly researched account, Foo interviews scientists and psychologists and tries a variety of innovative therapies. She returns to her hometown in California to investigate the effects of immigrant trauma on the community, and she uncovers family secrets in the country of her birth, Malaysia, to learn how trauma can be inherited through generations. Ultimately, she discovers that you don’t move on from trauma – but you can learn to move with it.

Powerful, enlightening and hopeful, What My Bones Know is a brave narrative that reckons with the hold of the past over the present, the mind over the body – and examines one woman’s ability to reclaim agency from her trauma.

PUBLICATION DATE: 07/04/2022

Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts,
Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change
by Danica Roem

An inspirational memoir-meets-manifesto by Danica Roem, the nation’s first openly trans person elected to US state legislature

Danica Roem made national headlines when–as a transgender former frontwoman for a metal band and a political newcomer–she unseated Virginia’s most notoriously anti-LGBTQ 26-year incumbent Bob Marshall as state delegate. But before Danica made history, she had to change her vision of what was possible in her own life. Doing so was a matter of storytelling: during her campaign, Danica hired an opposition researcher to dredge up every story from her past that her opponent might seize on to paint her negatively.

In wildly entertaining prose, Danica dismantles all the stories her opponents tried to hedge against her, showing how through brutal honesty and loving authenticity, it’s possible to embrace the low points, and even transform them into her greatest strengths. Burn the Page takes readers from Danica’s lonely, closeted, and at times operatically tragic childhood to her position as a rising star in a party she’s helped forever change. Burn the Page is so much more than a stump speech: it’s an extremely inspiring manifesto about how it’s possible to set fire to the stories you don’t want to be in anymore, whether written by you or about you by someone else–and rewrite your own future, whether that’s running for politics, in your work, or your personal life. This book will not just encourage people who think they have to be spotless to run for office, but inspire all of us to own our personal narratives as Danica does.

PUBLICATION DATE: 26/04/2022

Which new books are you looking forward to this month? Let me know below.

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