Book-club roundups posted
Major book clubs and outlets published their April selections: Book Riot rounded up what the biggest book clubs are reading in April 2026, and Publishers Weekly noted that Good Morning America and Read with Jenna are spotlighting debut novels by Caro Claire Burke and Woody Brown. (bookriot.com) (publishersweekly.com) The lists include online-joinable options for readers wanting to follow those club selections this month. (bookriot.com)
April’s book-club picks are out, and two of the month’s highest-profile selections are debut novels: Caro Claire Burke’s *Yesteryear* for Good Morning America and Woody Brown’s *Upward Bound* for Read With Jenna. (goodmorningamerica.com) (today.com) (publishersweekly.com) Book Riot posted its April 2026 roundup on April 14 and said it covered 14 book clubs whose picks readers can follow online. Its list spans fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and short stories, including clubs built around Asian voices, Black authors, and Jewish literature. (bookriot.com) Publishers Weekly published its own April roundup on April 14 and listed selections from outlets including Good Morning America, Barnes & Noble, Belletrist and Good Housekeeping, Black Men Read, and the Jewish Book Council. The trade publication said Good Morning America and Read With Jenna both chose first novels this month. (publishersweekly.com) Good Morning America announced *Yesteryear* on April 7. The novel follows Natalie Heller Mills, a social media “tradwife” with 8 million followers who wakes up in 1855 and confronts the labor and danger behind the lifestyle she sells online. (goodmorningamerica.com) TODAY announced *Upward Bound* on April 1 as Jenna Bush Hager’s April selection. Brown told TODAY.com he is autistic and nonverbal, writes with a letter board and help from his mother, Mary Brown, and set the novel in an adult day care center in Southern California. (today.com) The April lists also show how book-club picks now function as a monthly discovery system across television, publishing, and online reading groups. Book Riot’s roundup points readers to clubs with social-media discussions, live author interviews, Discord communities, and virtual meetings. (bookriot.com) Some of the other April selections underline how broad that ecosystem has become. Publishers Weekly highlighted Robert Hass’s *Praise* for Alta Journal’s California Book Club, Jamilah Lemieux’s *Black. Single. Mother.* for Audacious Book Club, and Tracy Deonn’s *Legendborn* for the Good Morning America Young Adult Book Club. (publishersweekly.com) For readers deciding what to pick up midmonth, the practical change is simple: the April choices are now public, and many of the clubs on Book Riot’s list can be joined from anywhere online. (bookriot.com)
