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April showers bring… celebrity book club picks! What's blooming this month? You’ll find tales of survival, a glitzy debut featuring the world of the London elite, and a very personal exploration of artificial intelligence. While you’re enjoying the titles below chosen by your favorite celebrities, don’t forget to follow @Libby.app on Instagram to connect with our community of readers and even more great literary content.
Check out the selections for April 2025! Borrow them in the Libby app, free from your library.
Read with Jenna
🎧 Audiobook
In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is 42-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters to her mother as she battles the elements and struggles to keep hoping.
Heartwood tells the story of a lost hiker's odyssey and is a moving rendering of each character's interior journey. The mystery inspires larger questions about the many ways in which we get lost, and how we are found. At its core, Heartwood is a redemptive novel, written with both enormous literary ambition and love.
Reese’s Book Club
🎧 Audiobook
A taut and lyrical coming-of-age debut about a young American woman navigating class, lies, and love amid London’s jet-set elite.
Sparkling with intelligence and insight, All That Life Can Afford peels back the glossy layers of class and privilege, exploring what it means to create a new life for yourself that still honors the one you’ve left behind.
Reese’s Spring YA Pick
🎧 Audiobook
The Inheritance Games meets Ocean's 11 in this thrilling adventure about a teenager determined to pull off the perfect heist in the middle of her father's wedding.
Good Morning America Book Club
🎧 Audiobook
A spellbinding novel about sisters separated by centuries, but bound together by the sea, from the author of Weyward.
A breathtaking tale of female resilience and the bonds of sisterhood across time and space, The Sirens captures the power of dreams, and the mystery and magic of the sea.
Belletrist (Emma Roberts & Karah Priess)
🎧 Audiobook
When it was released to the public in November 2022, ChatGPT awakened the world to a secretive project: teaching AI-powered machines to write. Its creators had a sweeping ambition—to build machines that could not only communicate, but could do all kinds of other activities, better than humans ever could. But was this goal actually achievable? And if reached, would it lead to our liberation or our subjugation?
Vauhini Vara, an award-winning tech journalist and editor, had long been grappling with these questions. In 2021, she asked a predecessor of ChatGPT to write about her sister’s death, resulting in an essay that was both more moving and more disturbing than she could have imagined.
Service95 Book Club (Dua Lipa)
🎧 Audiobook
A grieving father and his two sons, reeling from the sudden loss of their wife and mother, are visited by a mysterious, shape-shifting Crow who guides them through their sorrow until they begin to heal and move forward.
Part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief, Max Porter's extraordinary debut combines compassion and bravura style to dazzling effect.
Tea Time Book Club (Dakota Johnson)
🎧 Audiobook
From Pulitzer finalist and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russell: a gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town.
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Published Apr 08, 2025
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